Sphaeriaceae, Hyaloditlymae, Venturia. 591 



stitis ; ascis cylindraceis ; sporidiis uniseriatis, ellipsoideis (maturi- 

 tate probabiliter 1-septatis). 



Hab. in foliis Vaccinii uliginosi Lochnagar Britanuiae (B. 

 White). — A V. Myrtilli peritheciis majoribus, aggregatis, setu- 

 lis crebrioribus distinguenda. 



17. Yenturia Barbula (B. et Br.) Cooke Handb. n. 2784. Rehm. Asc. 2304 

 n. 293, Sphceria Barbula B. et Br. Ann. N. H. n. 870, t. 10, fig. 



20. — Peritheciis csespitulosis, globulosis collabascentibus, setulis 

 acutis, brevibus, fuligineis densiuscule vestitis ; ascis cylindraceis, 

 60 ^ 6, octosporis, parce paraphysatis ; sporidiis oblongis, obtusis, 

 rarius ovoideis 1-septatis, 8-10 ;= 4,5, monostichis, hyalinis, strato 

 exiguo mucoso, ssepius obvolutis. 



Hab. in cortice Pinorum in Britannia et Germania. 



18. Venturia pusilla Speg. et Roum. Reliq. Lib. in Rev. myc. II, 23. 2305 

 {Sphceria conoplea a acicola Lib. in Herb.) Vent. conoplea Cooke 



in Grev. VIII, p. 87. — Peritheciis gregariis minutissimis 130 y.. 

 diam., superficialibus, tenui-membranaceis, cupulato-collapsis, pilis 

 rigidulis atris, 20-40::; 5; sporidiis cylindraceo-ellipticis, medio uni- 

 septatis, hyalinis, loculo superiore parum crassiore, 6-7 ^ 2. 



Hab. in acubus putrescentibus Pini sylvestris, prope Mal- 

 raedy in finibus Galliae et Germaniae. 



19. Venturia Chaetomium (Corda) Ces. et De Not. Schema pag. 225. 2306 

 Sphceria Chceiomium Corda Ic. fung. t. 2, p. 29, fig. 152, Desm. 



19 Not. p. 12 (nec Dothidea Chcetomium Kunze), Niesslia Chce- 

 iomium (Corda) Auersw. Myc. Eur. Pyr. p. 30, flg, 152, Chcet. 

 pusillum Fr. S. M. III, 255. — Amphigena, superficialis, grega- 

 ria, aterrima; perithecis minutis, Yg-Vio mill. diam., globosis, poro 

 apertis, siccitate pezizoideo-collabentibus, superne glabris, nitidis, 

 inferne setis nigris, 30-40 y. long., subopacis, brevibus, rigidis, 

 acutis, continuis, strigosis; nucleo albido; ascis fusiformibus, 35 u.. 

 long. ; sporidiis hyalinis, rainutis, cylindricis, obtusiusculis, rectis 

 vel subcurvulis, absque ordine dispositis, 3-5-guttulatis, 15^3, 1- 

 septatis, non constrictis. 



Hab. in foliis dejectis Pinorum in Suecia, Germania et Gal- 

 lia. — Sec. Auersw. 1. c. geuus Niesslia a Veniuria distinguere- 

 tur tunica ascorum apice perforata. 



20. Venturla Spegazzinlana Cooke in Mich. I. 440, F. it. t. 423. — 2307 

 Peritheciis laxe gregariis, superficialibus, globulosis, senio umbili- 

 cato-collapsis, '/lo-^s ^^^^' diam., ostiolo impresso pertusis, undi- 

 setulis divergentibus, acutis, ba.si incrassatis, 40 s SV^-^, l-celiula- 



