176 



BOMBARDIA, Pr. 



Suiuma Veg. Scand. p. 389. 



Perithecia superficial, more or less vertically elongated, of firm, 

 coriaceous or membranaceous consistence, black. Asci cylindrical, 

 long-stipitate, 8-spored. 8poridia at first cylindrical, curved, hyaline, 

 finally enlarged above into an ovate or elliptical, brown head, the 

 lower part remaining cylindrical and subhyalinc. 



The true character of the sporidia was first pointed out by Winter, 

 in Hedwigia (1874). Ambiguous between RoselUnia and Lado- 

 spharia, having the perithecia of the former, and the sporidia after the 

 type of the latter. 



B. fasciculata, Pr. Summa Veg. Sc. p. 389. (Plate 21) 



Sphceria bombarda, Batsch Elenchus Cout. I, p. 271- 1 



Beriia bombarda, Ces. & De Not. Schema Sferiacei p. 51. 

 Exsicc. Fckl. F. Rh. 940.— Rab. F. %. 949. 



Perithecia fasciculate or crowded in continuous patches of 1 cm. 

 (more or less) in extent, short, oblong-cylindrical, slightly attenuated 

 below, grayish-pulverulent, becoming bare and black, \-\\ mm. high, 

 of firm, coriaceous consistence, with a small papilliform ostiolum. 

 Asci elongated-cylindrical, very long-stipitate, somewhat attenuated 

 above, 120-150 x 9-10 fi (p. sp.) Sporidia at first cylindric-vermicular, 

 about 35 n long, with a short, subulate, curved appendage at each end, 

 but when mature, consisting of an ovate or elliptical, brown head 

 13-15x8 fi (the spore proper), and a cylindrical, cui;ved, uniseptate, 

 subliyaline appendage, 24-26x4 //, below. 



On rotten wood, (especially on the smooth, cut surface), New 

 York State (Underwood), Iowa (Holway). 



MELANOPSAMMA, Niessl. 



Notiz, ueber Pyren. p. 40. 



Peritliecia superficial, or more or less sunk in the matrix, some- 

 times seated on a felt-like subiculum, subglobose, carbonaceous, glab- 

 rous or at first clothed with conidia-bearing hairs, black. Sporidia 

 elliptical or fusiform, uniseptate, typically hyaline, but sometimes 

 l)oconiing pale brown. 



M. pomiformis, (Pers.) 



SphcEria pomiformis, Pers Syn. p. 65. 

 Melanomma pomiforfnis, Fckl. Symb. p. 159. 

 EriosphiEria raripila, Sacc. F. Veil. Ser. II, p. 326. 

 Melanopsamnia potm/orvu's, Sacc. Syll. 2248. 

 Ex.sicc. Rab. E. E. 738.— Relim. Asc. 36.— Plowr. Sph. Brit. 68.— Sacc. M. Ven. 1479- 

 Roum. F. G. 181, 



