Sphseriaceae, Hyalodidyrase, Endothia. 601 



contextu pareiichymatico fuligiaeo ; ascis cylindricis , brevissime 

 stipitatis, apice rotundatis, 90 ^ 5-6, paraphysibus grumoso-deli- 

 quescentibus cinctis, octosporis; sporidiis monostichis, ovoideo-oblon- 

 gis, 10-13^5-6, fspurie?) 1-septatis, 2-nucleatis, haud constrictis, 

 hyalinis. 



Hab. in ramis corticatis, Texas, Corpus Christi (Ravenel). — 

 Habitus fere Botryosphceruv, sed characteres potius Valsarice, a 

 qua praecipue sporidiis hjalinis differt. 

 2. Myrmsecium? insidens (Schw.) Sacc. Sphceria mszdens Schw. Csi- 234i 

 rol. n. 222 Fr. S. M. II, p. 422. Melogramma insidens (Schw.) 

 Berk. N. Am. Fungi p. 169. — Effusa, stromate subrotundo in- 

 nato fusco-nigro, peritheciis emergentibus, confertis, ovatis, fiexuo- 

 sis, subpapillatis ; sporidiis monostichis v. distichis, oblongis, uni- 

 septatis, 7-8 u.. long. 



Hab. in lignis et corticibus in Carolina Amer. bor. — Stroma 

 innatum, ex habitu superflciale, sed revera matrici basi immersum 

 et subcircumscriptum, difforme, opacum, ex parte sterile. Perithe- 

 cia plus minus emersa, difformia, farcta, ad dimidiam magnitudi- 

 nem seminis Papaveris accedentia. 



ENDOTHIA Fr. Summa Veg. Scand. p. 385 (Etym. ab endothen in- 

 trinsecus, ob perithecia immersa). — Stroma innato-erumpens, ver- 

 ruciforme, amoene crocatum, subcoriaceum. Perithecia immersa, ni- 

 gricantia, submonosticha, longicollia. Asci fusoidei, aparaphysati, 

 octospori. Sporidia breve fusiformia, hyalina, (spurie?) I-septata. 

 Spermogonia nota. — Fungillus colore stroraatis fere Tubercii- 

 larice mox dignoscendus. 



1. Endothia gyrosa (Schw.) Fuck. Symb. rayc. n. 226, Sacc. Myc. 9342 

 Ven. Spec. p. 146, t. XIV, f. 63-65, Sphceria gyrosa Schw. Syn. 

 Car. n. 25, Fr. S. M. II, 419, Endothia radicalis Fr. Summa Veg. 

 Scand. p. 385, De Not. Sfer. ital. p. 8, f. III. — Subrotunda, con- 

 fluens, aurantio-miniata, stromate lutescente, peritheciis atris, glo- 

 bosis pulverulentis, demum prominulis ; ascis subclavatis, basi sub- 

 stipitato-attenuatis, 35-40 ^ 7-8, 8-sporis, aparaphysatis ; sporidiis 

 recte distichis, breve fusoideis, hyalinis, 1-septatis, non constrictis, 

 7-9 s 3, raro oblique monostichis. — Perithecia spermogonica in 

 superficie stromatis, subrotuuda, sinuosa, medio umbilicata, cocci- 

 nea; spermatiis minutissimis, oblongis, 3:;1, hyalinis, paraphysi- 

 bus (?) filiformibus obvallatis. 



Hab. in corticibus et ad ligna Quercus, Carpini, ^scu- 



