580 Spluuriacea% HyaloJidyniie, Melanopsamrna. 



theciis gregariis, initio semi-immersis, glabris, depressis, nigro-fu- 

 scis V. iiigri.s, 300 v., diam., ascis subclavatis; sporidiis mono-di- 

 stichis. ellipticis, uniseptatis, ad septum profunde constrictis, 13- 

 20:; 7-10, hyalinis. 



Hab. in lignis emortuis, Tyre Amer. bor. — Perithecia sub- 

 indc discoidea videntur. 



19. Melanopsamma texensis (Cooke) Sacc, Sphceria texensis Cooke 2266 

 Fungi of Texas 143. — Sparsa, grisea; peritheciis subglobosis li- 

 gno atrato subimmersis, vix prominulis; ascis cylindraceis ; spo- 

 ridiis lanceolatis, uniseptatis, hyalinis, 15^6. 



Hab. in ligno quercino, Texas Amer. bor. (Ravenel). — 

 Aij Diaporthe? 



20. Melanopsamma Petrucciana (Cald. et De Not.) Sacc, Splueria 2267 

 Petrucciana Cald. Erb. cr. ital. n. 242, Comm. Critt. I, pag. 40, 

 tab. II, fig. VI, Amphisphceria Petrucciana Cald. et De Not. 

 Comm. Critt. I, pag. 223, Michel. II, 316. — Peritheciis innato- 

 erumpentibus, tandem emersis, atris, sphtericis, subinde sphiieroideo- 

 conicis denique poro pertusis, sparsis, gregariisque, stromate sub- 

 cinereo maculiformi thalliformi (proprio?) cinctis; ascis cylindricis 

 breve stipitatis, apice rotundatis, paraphysibus filiforraibus obval- 

 latis, 150-160^16-18, octosporis jodo non coerulescentibus ; spo- 

 ridiis monostichis, ellipsoideis, utrinque obtuse rotundatis, 18-24 

 s 11-13, 1-septatis, non constrictis, hyalinis. 



Hab. in cortice Cupressi prope Firenze Italiae media? et in 

 Gallia australi. 



21. Melanopsamma glandis fDuby; ^Slcc. Sphorria glandis Duby Bot. 2268 

 Gall. 700, Mont. FI. Alg. p. 504. — Sparsa aut hinc inde aggre- 

 gata, aterrima, nitida; peritheciis orbiculatis, applanato-convexis, 

 basi interdum subdilatatis ostiolo minimo vix promiuulo, demum 

 pertuso; ascis ventricosis utroque fine obtusis, Ssporis; sporidiis 

 oblongis, uniseptatis, biseriatis. 



Hab. ad glandes humi delapsas Quercus cocciferte in AI- 

 geria et Gallia. 



22. Melanopsamma Papilla (Schw.) Sacc, Amphisph(rria Papilla 22m 

 (Schw.) Mich. II, p. 138, Sph. Papilla Schw. Carol. n. 150. — 

 Sparsa, atra, opaca, peritheciis tornatis, hemisphasrico-conicis in- 

 natis, ostiolo papilla?formi ; a.scis cylindraceis crassis, paraphysatis, 

 octosporis; sporidiis oblique monostichis, ovoideo-biconicis, 40 ^ 

 15-20, leniter constrictis, 2-nucleatis, hyalinis, jodii ope (leque ac 

 ascis) flavescentibus. 



