S^S Spha?riacea', Hyaloditlym;!'. Melianopsamma. 



pilis conidiophoris ve.stita senio plabrescunt ot .sacpius, collabasCHn- 

 fio, urabilicata Hunt, quo statu notam k>ph. pomt/brmem .sistunt. 

 — Var. inmor: poritlieciis subdistantibns, minoribus, (jugiter?) pa- 

 pillatis; ascis cvlindricis 90 ^; 8; sporidiis l^so-GV^, 2-guttulatis, 

 hyalinis. In ligno populeo Patavii, Jan. 1877. 



2. Melanopsamma Ruborum (Lib.) Sacc. Mich. II. p. 58. Sphceria Ru- 2249 

 horuiii Lil). Arduen. n. 340. — Peritheciis globoso-papillatis villo 

 fuligineo interseminatis; setis cuspidalis, basi incrassatis, 200 ^; (5, 

 septatis, Inliginis; ascis cylindraceo-fusoideis, breve stipitatis, api- 



ce tunica integra obtusis, 80-90 ^; 10, parce paraphjsatis, 8-sporis; 

 sporidiis fusoideis, IS^^Yg-^Yo, 2-4-guttulatis, liyalinis, denique 

 1-septatis, dilute fuscellis. 



Hab. in sarmentis emortuis Hubi fruticosi, Malmedy in 

 Hnibus Galliae et Germanige. 



3. Melanopsamma cryptostoma (Lev.) Sacc. Sphceria cryptostoma Lev. 2250 

 Ann. Sc. nat. 1843. XIX, 213-335 (Pl. 7, fig. 35). — Peritheciis j 

 gregariis, globosis, papillatis, hirtis. atris e subiculo villoso con- 

 colori emergentibus; nucleo albo; ascis clavulatis, paraphysatis, 

 octosporis; sporidiis oblongis utrinque acutis, monostichis, constri- 

 cto-uniseptatis, hyalinis. 



Hab. ad ramos humi prostratos Eric?3 cinereae, Bois de Bou- ■ 

 logne circa Parisips. — Habitus fere Rosellinice Aquilm. * 



4. Melanopsamma Pustula (Curr.) Sacc. Mich. I, p. 347. Sphceria Fu- 2251 

 sticla Curr. in Linn. Tran-sact. XXII, p. 317, t. 59, f. 31. Sph. per- 

 exigua Bk., Cooke Handb. p. 863. — Subaggi-egata, nigra; peri- 

 theciis subglobosis; ascis octosporis; sporidiis distichis, subellipti- 

 cis, 20 25 [).. longis, leniter curvulis, e hyalino chlorinis, plasma- 



te bipartito, 1-septatis. 



Hab. in ligno putri, Bungay Britannia3. — Habitus Melanom- 

 matis Pulv>is-pyrii. 



5. Melanopsamma coffeicola (B. et C.) Sacc. Sph. (pertusie) coffei- om 

 cola B. et C. Cuban Fungi n. 851. — Nuda; peritheciis late co- 

 nicis glabris; ascis clavatis; sporidiis hyalinis biarticulatis, arti- 

 dulo superiore conico parvo, inferiore subelliptico, 25 y.. loug. 



Hab. in ramis emortuis Coffea) in Cuba. — Sporidia fere illa 

 Apiosporcc imitantur. 

 t^ Melanopsamma confertissima (Plowr.) Sacc. Sph. confertissima 2253 

 Plowr. Calif. Spluer. in Grev. VII, p. 73. — Peritheciis miuutis, 

 in greges dense stipatis, auibitu laxioribus, subsphtericis compres- 



