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Superficies corticis, epidermide amissa, circum ostiola subinde nigrescens
apparet, sed stroma genuinum nullum. Inter Allescherinam et Crvptovalsam
fere media, sed huic affinior ob perithecia sat distincte acervulata.
Cryptovalsa prominens (How.) Beri. ap. Abbado, Malp. (1902) p. 3 i2 , Día-
trypella prominens Howe Bull. Torr. Cl. V, p. 42, Sacc. Syll. IX (1891), p. 480
(Tab. CXXXIX, fig. 2. — Ex specim. cl. Shear N. York Fungi exsicc. n. 338.
Hab. in ramis emortuis Lonicerae japonicae, Pointe à la Hache, Amer.
bor. (Langlois).
Stromate tantum circa ostiola evolutum et epidermide nigrefacta formato;
peritheciis in acervulos tuberculiformes collectis, medio cortici immersis,
pruina alba indutis, in collum breve cra.ssum productis, ostiolis vix emergentibus,
verisimiliter non sulcatis; ascis clavatis, myriosporis, i 55- i 65 » 12 p.,
p. sp. 55-b5 » 12; sporidiis allantoideis, cylindraceis, curvulis, pallide melleis,
8-10 » 2 7 ,
Vera Cryptovalsae species.
Cryptovalsa microsperma (Sacc.) Speg., Diatrypella microsperma Sacc. Fungi
Abyss, p. 4, t. XX, f. 4 et Syll. XI, p. 278 (Tab. CXL, fig. 1. — Ex specim.
orig. a cl. Saccardo benevole communicatis).
Hab. in cortice laeviusculo ignoto, M. Dongolla prope Ghinda Col. Erv-
thraeae (leg. 0 . Penzig).
Acervulis prominentibus, peridermio elevato tectis; peritheciis cortice immersis,
globosis, in collum longiusculum productis, superne pruina nigrescente
indutis, ostiolis non prominentibus; ascis clavatis, latis, myriosporis,
p. sp. 5o-6o » 10-12 fi.; sporidiis cylindraceo-curvatis, pallide melleis, 5-6 »
2 -2 '/ ,
Pruina tantum circa ostiola nigrescit sed stroma genuinum deest.
Cryptovalsa protracta (Pers.) Ces. et De Not. Schem. sfer. ital. p. 27, Sacc.
Syll. I, p. 188, Sphaeria protracta Pers. Synopsis methodica fungorum (1801),
Cryptovalsa ampeltna (Nils.) Fuck., C. Nitschkei Fuck., Sacc. Syll. I, 187-188
(Tab. CXL, fig. 2. — Ex specim. in Ulmo a cl. Magnus lecto et in herb.
Saccardo asservato, cum Fuckelianis aliisque comparato).
Hab. in ramis emortuis Ulmi, Aceris campestris, Vitis, Mori, Pruni, Crataegi,
Carpini, Coryli, Paliuri aliarumque arborum in Italia, Gallia, Germania,
America bor. et austr.
Stromate late effuso, saepius peridermio fed o , rarius in cortice vel ligno
serpente, crustáceo, nigro, circa perithecia acervulatim collecta sat elevato;
acervulis parvis, tumidulis, gregariis, subrotundis, peridermio laciniatim rupto
cinctis; peritheciis in quoque acervulo plerumque 4-6, sat stipatis, ovoideis,
mutua pressione angulatis, 'f i - /, mm. latis; collis brevibus, ostiolis congestis,
incrassatulis, parum exsertis, tri-quadrisulcatis terminatis; ascis clavulato-
cylindraceis, deorsum in stipitem longissimum productis, sursum rotundatis,
myriosporis, p. sp. 60-70 » 7-9 ¡t. ; sporidiis allantoideis, pallide flavo-viridulis,
8-g » 2.
Cryptovalsa Rabenhorstii differt stromate minus evoluto, ascis angustioribus
sporidiisque minoribus et pallidioribus.
Cryptovalsa citricola (EU. et Ev.) Beri. ap. Abbado, Malp. (1902) p. 320,
Diatrypella citricola Ellis and Everhart North american Pyrenom. (1892) p. 687,
Sacc. Syll. XI ( i8g 5), p. 277 (Tab. CXLI, fig. 1. — Ex spec. orig. a cl. Ellis
benevole communicato).
Hab. in ramis emortuis Citri Aurantii, Florida (Underwood),
Stremate effuso, tubercula nigra, sparsa, e peridermio erumpentia formante;
peritheciis monostichis, 5- i 5 in quoque acervulo, cortici immensis et
saepe ligno adnatis, pruina alba vel lutescente indutis, ovatis, in collum
longiusculum productis; ostiolis crassis, vix prominulis; ascis clavatis, myriosporis,
p. sp. 65-70» 10-12 fi.; sporidiis allantoideis, pallide melleis, hyalinis,
6-9 » 2-2‘/j.
An hue ducenda Cryptovalsa d i r i Cattaneo ?
Cryptovalsa postulata EU. et Ev. North Amer. Pyren. p, 5 16 et Beri. ap.
(1887) in Malp. 1902, p. 3 i 8, Diatrypella pustalata EU. et Ev. Journ. Mycol.
Abbad. p. n ò , Sacc. Syll. IX, 1891, p. 478 (Tab. CXLI, fig. 2. — Ex specim.
orig. iam vetusto a cl. Ellis benevole communicato).
Hab. in ramulis emortuis Lonicerae (cult.), Newfield N. Jersey, Amer. bor.
et Symphoricarpi vulgaris Manhattan, Kansas (Kell. et Swingle).
Stromate effuso, ligno adnato, circa perithecia solitaria vel 2-4 acervu-
latim collecta elevato-tuberculiformi ; acervulis gregariis, intus albis, epidermide
nigrificata circa ostiola tantum rupta tectis; peritheciis globosis vel
mutua pressione angulatis, Ugno adnatis, ' / - ’ f i mm. diam.; collis brevibus,
cylindraceis, crassis, ostiolis quadrisulcatis, vix emergentibus terminatis; ascis
clavato-fusoideis, paraphysatis, polysporis, cum stipite 100- n o » i o ¡i.; sporidiis
allantoideis, curvulis, pallide melleis, hyalinis, 5-8 » \ '/,-2.
Cryptovalsa elevata (Berk.) Sacc. Syll. I, p. 191, Sphaeria elevata Berk.
Decades of Fungi 71, Euiypa elevata Cooke Handbook of British Fungi 2404
(1872), Cryptovalsa Rabenhorstii var. F ic i Caricae Sacc. Michelia I, pag. 22
(Tab. CXLII. — Ex specim. a prof. Saccardo benevole communicato sub
Crypt. Rabenhorstii var. Fic i Caricae Sacc.)
Hab. in ramis emorluis Evonymi in Britannia, Fici Caricae in Italia. Lecta
quoque in Tasmania.
Stromate late effuso, ligneo, fusco-luteo vel nigrescente, circa perithecia
acervulatim collecta sat elevato; acervulis parvis, tumidulis, sparsis; peritheciis
ligno immersis, sat stipatis, ovoideis, mutua pressione angulatis, '/,-'/,
mm. latis; collis brevibus, o.stiolis congestis, incrassatulis, e ligno parum exsertis,
terminatis; ascis clavatis, brevibus, incrassatis, longissime stipitatis.