Sphaeriaceae, Hyalodidymae, Apiospora. 539 



numerosissimis biserialibus confertissimis, subconnatis, globosis, ni- 

 gris, intus albis, stromatis brunneo subimmersis. 



Hab. in foliis exsiccatis Phalaridis arundinaceag in 

 Gallia. — Nucleus ignotus. 

 279. Sphaerella Polypodii (Rabh.) Fuck. Symb. p. 102. 



Hab. in frondibus Polypodii vulgaris (nec non, sec. Fuck., 2097 

 Aspidii Filicis maris, Asplenii Trichomanis, Pte- 

 ridis aquilinse) in Germania, Lusitania et Sibiria, — Nec dia- 

 gDosim nec exemplaria perfecta et genuina invenire contigit. Sec. 

 Auerswald Myc. Eur. Pyr. p. 20, haec species ad Leptosphceriam 

 spectaret. Equidem plures auctores pro hac specie Sphcerellam 

 Tyrolensem symunt. 



APIOSPORA Sacc. Consp. Gen. Pjr. p. 9. — (Etym. ab aptos, pyrus, 

 ob formam sporid.). Perithecia tecta, membranacea, globulosa, pseu- 

 dostroraate fusco connexa. Asci octospori paraphysati, v. saltem 

 pseudoparaphysati. Sporidia clavato-subpyriformia, deorsum atte- 

 nuata et ssepe curvula, prope imam basim tenuiter 1-septata, nu- 

 bilosa, hyalina. — Species ut pluriraum graminicolse. 



1. Apiospora Montagnei Sacc. Fungi Ven. Ser. II, p. 306, Sph. apio- 2098 

 spora Dur. et Mont. Fl. Alg., I, p. 492, t. 25, f. 1, Mont. Syll. 

 Crjpt. n. 809, Hypopteris apiospora (Mont.) Berk. Dec. Fung. 



n. 485*. — Erumpens, linearis, atra; peritheciis pro ratione am- 

 plis globosis uniserialibus albo-farctis, stromate fusco connexis, 

 ostiolis hemisphsericis unibihcatis; ascis clavatis, 70-90^:20; spo- 

 ridiis biserialibus ovato-oblongis appendiculato-pyriformibus, 25 

 s 10, hyalinis. 



Bab. in culmis Arundinis mauritanicae, circa Perpignan 

 Galliae et in Algeria, Arundinarise in Carolina et Alabama 

 Amer. bor., Bambusae ad Nangki in India orient. 



2. Apiospora Striola (Pass.; Sacc Fungi Ven. Ser. II, p. 305, Fungi 2099 

 ital. t. 180, Homostegia Striola Pass. in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. ital. 

 1871, p. 325. — Peritheciis parallele seriatis, immersis culmique 

 superficiem nonnihil elevantibus erumpentibusque, minutis, 150 u.. 

 diam., globosis, atris, stromate nigricante connexis, ostiolo brevis- 

 sirao, cylindraceo, latiuscule aperto, contextu dense parenchyraati- 



co, fuligineo; ascis cylindeaceo-clavatis, 70-80 s 12, rarius 90 ^. lon- 

 gis, basi attenuatis, subsessilibus, pseudo-paraphysibus crassiusculis 

 guttulatis obvallatis, Ssporis; sporidiis oblique raonostichis v. sub- 

 distichis, oblongo-clavatis, deorsura saepe incurvo-attenuatis, 28- 



