732 Sphaeriaceae, Phaiodiclyraae, Delitschia. 



bosis lievibus, dilute badiis; ostiolo cylindrico-truncato ; ascis cy- 

 lindricis, octosporis ; sporidiis ovatis, uniseptatis, subbicoilis (bilo- 

 cularibus?) fuscis. 



Hab. ad rainos P o p u 1 i , Hoyerswerda Gerraaniae. 



DELITSCHIA Auersw. in Hedw. 1866, p. 49. (Etym. a prof, Delitsch 

 Lipsiensi). — Perithecia sparsa, fimo immersa, sphi^roidea, rostro 

 emerso, atra, coriaceo-membranacea, Asci cylindracei paraphysati, 

 octospori. Sporidia subellipsoidea, uniseptata, fusca, strato hyalino 

 circumdata. 



1. DelitschJa Auerswaldii Fuck. Symb. mycr p. 241, Delitschia di- 277i 

 dyma Auersw. in Hedw. 1866, p. 49. — Peritheciis sparsis, im- 

 mersis, coriaceo-membranaceis, V4 D^iH' diam., ovatis, fuscis rostro 

 crasso brevissime conico coronatis ; ascis cylindraceis, Ssporis, pa- 

 raphysibus filiformibus obvallatis, 250-300 y.. longis; sporidiis obli- 

 que monostichis, oblongo-ovatis, utrinque obtusis, bilocularibus, me- 



dio constrictis, fuscis opacisque, 52 ^ 18, demum in articulos binos 

 secedeotibus. 



Hab. in stercore Capreolorum, Leporum et Cuniculo- 

 rum ia Saxonia et Rhenogovia. 



2. Delitschia bisporula (Crouau) Hans. Fungi fim. dan, p. 107, t. IX, 2772 

 f. 7-11, Grevill. t. 94, f. 4, Hormospora bisporula Crouan Finist. 



p. 21. — Peritheciis ovoideis, nigricantibus, circ. y^ '^^^1« altis, in 

 ostiolum breve conicum obtusum atteauatis, pilis rigidulis sursura 

 vestitis; ascis cylindraceis, octosporis paraphysatis, 150^:15; spo- 

 ridiis monostichis, oblongis, 1-septatis, constrictis, 27 s 10, strato 

 hyalino obvolutis, fuligineis. 



Hab, in fimo vaccino, cuniculorum etc. in Gallia, Bri- 

 tannia, Dania. — Del. moravicce affinis, 



3. Delitschia chaBtomioides Karst. Myc. Fenn. II, p. 60. — Perithe- 2773 

 ciis sparsis vel subgregariis, immersis, sphaeroideis, atris, villo de- 

 tersili fusco obvolutis, circiter 0,7 mill. diam., rostro eraerso, rjndi, 

 inaequali, crasso, srepe tuberculato, forma varia, 0,7 miU. iong., 



0,6 raill. crass. ; ascis cylindraceis, 250^30 p. sporif., parce pa- 

 raphysatis ; sporidiis raonostichis, subellipsoideis, uniseptatis, fuscis, 

 opacis, 38-50 s 17-20. 



Hab. in fimo equino prope Mustiala Fenniae. 



4. Delitschia congregata Speg. Fungi Arg. Pug. IV, n. 163. — Pe- 2774 

 ritheciis dense gregariis superficialibus vel semiiraraersis, globosis 

 400-450, levissimis, in ostiolum cjliodricura subaequilongura, molle 



