l(;ii Sphaoriaceae, Hyalosporse, Cryptosporella. 



Hah. passiin prope Salem' Amer. bor. iii ramis corticatis Bi- 

 gnonia^ radicantis. 



CRYPTOSPORELLA Sacc Mich. I, liO. (Etym. a Cri/plospora. cujus 

 est analogum genus). — Perithecia valsiformiter aggregata, cor- 

 ticola, Asci 4-8-spori, aparaphysati. Spoi-idia ovata vel fusoidoa, 

 contiuua, hyalina. -^ A genere Criplospora (sporidiis vermicula- 

 ribus limitato) facillime dignoscitur sporidiis ovoideo-oblongis. 



1. Cryptosporella hypodermia (Fr.) Sacc Mich. I, 30 et 3G9, Fungi igoi 

 ital. 1. 470, Sphcvria hypodermia Fr. S. M. II, 407, Yalsa hy- 

 podermia Fr. S. V. S. 412, Cryptospora hypodcrmia (Fr.) Fuck. 

 Symb. myc. p. 192. — Stromate valseo, cortici omnino immerso 

 nec erumpente pustulato, strato summo centrali, pulveraceo, fucato, 

 tenui, angusto excepto, substantia corticis omnino immutata for- 

 matum ; peritheciis 3-6 in singulo stromate, circinantibus, cortici 

 iramersis, sphaeroideis, atris, pusillis, collis convergentibus subjuu- 

 ctis; ostiolis subsphseroideis vel conoideis seu elongatis, uitidis, in 

 discum per peridermium erumpens, minutum, 0,4 mill. lat, circiter, 

 nigrum dense stipatis; ascis subsessilibus, elongatis, utrinque atte- 

 nuatis, 100-125^16-20 p. sporif. octosporis; sporidiis tristichis 

 vel subdistichis, fusoideo-elongatis, rectis, guttulatis, simplicibus, 

 chlohno- vel luteolo-hyalinis, 34-50 ^ 7-9. — Spermogonium (Fu- 

 sicoccumfj gelatina alba, in cellulis simplicibus, sub epidermide 

 nidulans; conidiis ovatis, cum guttula oleosa magna et episporio 

 crasso, hyaliQis, 24 ^ 16, in stipitum simplicium apicibus. 



Hab. in ramis corticatis Ulmi campestris in Suecia, Fen- 

 nia, Gallia, Germania, Belgio, Britannia et Italia. 



2. Cryptosporella Limminghil (West.) Sacc. Sphtvria Limminghii \m 

 Kickx Fl. crypt. Fl. I, 323. — Pustulis subrotundis v. transverse 

 oblongis, peridermiuni pustulatim elevantibus, perforantibusque ; 

 peritheciis 6-12 in quaqne pustula, sphaericis, minutis; collis cy- 

 lindricis elongatis, ostiolis in discum subrotundum mamillosum, Jii- 

 gro-nitidulum conjunctis; ascis clavatis v. subfusoideis, aparaphy- 

 satis; sporidiis distichis elliptico-oblongis, acutiususculis, hyalinis. 



Hab. in ramis emortuis Ulmi, S. Georges, Courtrai, in Bel- 

 gio. — Peraffinis videtur C. hypodermia^, nisi eadem. 



3. Cryptosporella aurea (Fuck.) Sacc Mich. I, 30, Mich. 369, Fuugi 1803 

 ital. tab. 425, Valsa aurea Fuck. Enum. Fuugor. Nassov. p. 53, 



fig. 20 (1851), V. amygdalina Cooke Seem. Journ. (1866), V. 

 ru,tila Tul. Carp. II, 196 (1863). — Stroma e basi orbiculari co- 



