Part 1, 1910] NECTRIACEAE 5 
2. Nectriella Peponum (Berk. & Curt.) Seaver, 
Mycologia 1: 46. 1909. 
Basa alae Berk, & Curt.; Rav. Fungi Car. 4: 52; hyponym. 1855. Not WV. perpusilla 
nt. : 
Nectria Peponum Berk, & Curt.; Berk. Grevillea 4: 16. 1875. 
Perithecia scattered or gregarious, at first covered by the thin epidermis, becoming sub- 
superficial, but nestling in minute cavities in the substratum, ovoid, with a prominent, 
obtuse ostiolum, 175 X 2004, bright-red, nearly scarlet, the component cells of the peri- 
thecial wall distinct, 5 in diameter ; asci clavate, 35-40 X 5-6 u ; spores 1-septate, fusoid, 
hyaline, 1044. 
On dead gourds. 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION: North Carolina and South Carolina, 
ExsiccaTi: Rav. Fungi Am. 338; Rav. Fungi Car. 4: 57. 
DOUBTFUL, SPECIES 
Nectria Galit Plow. & Hark. Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 26. 1884. 
3. ELEUTHROMYCES Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 183. 1869. 
Perithecia free on the substratum, globose or subglobose, continued into a long neck, 
brownish or amber; substance soft; asci cylindric, 4-8-spored ; spores simple, fusiform, 
continued into a more or less bristle-like apiculus at each end. 
Type species, Sphaeria subulata Tode. 
Perithecia large, 500 y-1 mm. high. 1. Z. subulatus. 
Perithecia small, 150-180 u high. 2. £. Geoglosst. 
1. Eleuthromyces subulatus (Tode) Fuckel, 
Symb. Myc. 183. 1869. 
? Clavaria brachiaia Batsch, Elench. Fung. Contin. 1: 234. 1786. 
Sphaeria subulata Tode, Fungi Meckl. 2: 44, 1791. 
?Lsaria brachiata Schum. Enum. Pl. Saell. 2: 443. 1803. 
Sphaeronema subulatum Fries, Syst. Myc. 2: 536. 1823. 
Perithecia scattered or gregarious, subglobose below, tapering into a long neck, smooth 
or nearly so, yellowish or amber, 200-300 in diameter at the base and 500”-1 mm. high; 
asci cylindric, fusoid, about 50 * 2-34, 8-spored; spores simple, elongate, averaging 4 X 24, 
tapering into a bristle-like appendage of variable length at each end. 
On partially decayed fungi. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION : Ontario; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Batsch, Elench. Fung. p/. 28, f. 163; Tode, Fungi Meck]. pl. 15, f. 117; 
ER. & P. Nat. Pfl. 1!: f(. 238, D-E; Nees, Syst. Pilze Schw. fl. 43, f. 349, B; Rab. Krypt. FI. 12: 
84, 7. L-4 
2. Eleuthromyces Geoglossi (Ellis & Ev.) Seaver, 
Mycologia 1: 48. 1909. 
Hypomyces Geoglossi Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 2: 73. 1886. 
Peckiella Geoglossi Sace. Syll. Fung. 9: 944. 1891. 
Perithecia superficial, closely gregarious, dirty greenish-yellow when fresh, yellow- 
ish to amber when dry, more or less furfuraceous, nearly globose, tapering into a rather 
long neck, 1504 in diameter at the base and 180 high; asci slender, 50-75 X4-5y, 8- 
spored; spores mostly 1-seriate, with the ends overlapping, hyaline, simple, tapering into an 
appendage-like extremity at each end, 10-12 x 3-44. 
On Trichoglossum sp. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Newfield, New Jersey. 
DISTRIBUTION: New York and New Jersey. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mycologial: pl. 4, /. 10, 11. 
