Sphaeriaceas, Hyalosporae, Cryptosporella. 467 



nicum v. convexura, plerumque plus minus protuberans, pustula- 

 tum, peridermio arctissime adhaerente tectum, disco lateritio v. ru- 

 tilante, ostiolis tandem nigro-punctato, coronatum; peritheciis in 

 singulo stromate 4-10, corticis parenchymati immutato infossis, 

 globosis, minutis, circinautibus, in collum tenuissimum attenuatis; 

 ostiolis minimis, cylindricis nec incrassatis, obtusis, in margine di- 

 sci exigui vix exsertis; ascis anguste oblongis v. fere cylindricis, 

 sessilibus, octosporis, 108-160^16-18; sporidiis obliquis monosti- 

 chis V. pro parte distichis, elliptico-ovatis, rectis, rarius inaequi- 

 lateralibus, unicellularibus, subhyalinis, 24-30=^8-12. — Status 

 spermogonicus [Fusicoccum?). Pustulis minutis, siccis, demum epi- 

 dermidem lacerantibus, intus niveis, simplicibus, siccis prirno sper- 

 matiis minutissimis, cylindraceis, demum aliis majoribus, ascosporis 

 valde similibus repletis. 



Hab. in ramis corticatis Carpini Betuli in Germania, Gal- 

 lia, Britannia et Italia. 



4. Cryptosporella Daldiniana (De Not.) Sacc. Mich. I, 30, Endothia 1804 

 Daldiniana De Not. Recl. in Comm. II, 477. — Corticola; peri- 

 theciis insculptis, circinatis, ovoideis, rotundatisve, rostratis, con- 

 vergentibus, rostro toto elongato teretiusculo, clypeo stromatico 



■ aurantio conoideo-truncato, vertice mox denudato, ostiolisque pun- 

 ctiforraibns atris notato exceptis; ascis coacervatis, teretiusculis, 

 tetrasporis; sporidiis ellipsoideis, episporio crassiusculo limbatis, 

 hyalino-luteolis, continuis. 



Eal. in ramis siccis Coryli Avellanae, Locarno Ital. bor. 

 (Daldini). — Crypt. aurea, cui affinis, differt sporidiis duplo fere 

 majoribus et octonis, 



5. Cryptosporella chondrospora (Ces.) Rehm, Ascom. et Diagn. n. 335, 1805 

 Cryptospora limitata Kunze F. sel. n. 155, Sphceria chondro- 

 spora Ces. Hedw. I, t. II, fig. II. — Stromatibus sub peridermio 



■ nidulantibus, idque pustulatim elevantibus, depresso-hemisphaericis, 

 intus extusque luteolis; peritheciis in singulo stromate 1-3 glo- 

 bosis in coUum breve conicum attenuatis, atris, 0,3 mill. diara.; 

 ascis elougatis utrinque attenuatis, sessilibus, octosporis 95-100 ::; 

 15-18, paraphysatis ; sporidiis subdistichis ovoideo-oblongis, 27- 

 32 s 8-10, deorsum rainus obtusis, continuis, initio nucleo crasso, 

 dein bipartito, hyalinis. 



/Za^. in cortice ramulorum Tilise platyphyllse in Italia et 

 Gerraania. 



6. Cryptosporella populina (Fuck.) Sacc. Mich. I, 509, Cryptospora isoe 



