Part 1, 1910] NECTRIACEAE 9 
radiating mycelium, collapsing, becoming deeply pezizoid when dry; asci clavate, about 
75 X 10-12 », 8-spored; spores partially 2-seriate, narrow-fusoid, 1-septate, hyaline, with 
2 oil-drops in each cell, about 18-25 « 3-4 u. 
On leaves of Musa. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Cuba to Mexico. 
9. Nectria Eucalypti (Cooke & Hark.) Sacc. Syll. 
Fung. 9: 969. 1891. 
Dialonectria Eucalypti Cooke & Hark.; Cooke, Grevillea 12: 82. 1884. 
Dialonectria depallens Cooke & Hark.; Cooke, "Grevillea 12: 82. 1884. 
Neciria depallens Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 962. 1891. 
Perithecia scattered, superficial, nearly globose, with a papilliform ostiolum, smooth, 
pale-red to yellowish, entire or often collapsing, 200-250 in diameter; asci clavate, 
50-55 X 7-8 #, 8-spored; spores crowded, 18-22 X 4-5 yu, 1-septate, 2-seriate. 
On Lucalypius and stems of Lupinus. 
TYPE LOCALITY : California. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type oe 
ILLUSTRATION: Mycologia i: 1. 5, 7. 10, 
10. Nectria Apocyni Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State 
Mus. 26: 84. 1874. 
Perithecia scattered or crowded in small clusters, subglobose, more or less collapsed 
when dry, slightly rough, dull-red ; ostiolum minute ; asci clavate, 60-65 & 124, 8-spored ; 
spores 2-seriate and often irregularly crowded, oblique, fusiform, with ends acute, almost 
sharp, 1-septate, a little constricted at the septum, granular within, 18-22 5-64. 
On the lower part of the stems of Indian hemp, Apocynum cannabinum L,. 
TYPE LOCALITY: North Greenbush, New York. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mycologia 1: p1.5, f. 12 
11. Nectria sulphurea (Ellis & Calk.) Sacc. Syll. 
Fung. 9: 966. 1891. 
Dialonectria sulfurea Ellis & Calk.; Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 4: 57. 1888. 
Perithecia scattered, sulfur-yellow-pruinose and seated on a sulfur-yellow-pruinose 
base 1 or more cm. in diameter, often becoming reddish-brown with age, 200 » in diameter ; 
asci evanescent ; spores small, fusoid, with the ends obtusely pointed, 1-septate and con- 
stricted at the septum, often with an oil-drop in each cell, 7-12 K 3-44. 
Parasitic on old fungi, Stereum sp. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Jacksonville, Florida. 
DISTRIBUTION: Ohio to Florida. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mycologial: p1.5, f. 13. 
ExsiccaTi: Ellis & Ev, N. Am. Fungi 1947. 
12. Nectria truncata Ellis, Am. Nat. 17: 194. 1883. 
Perithecia minute, 125-1504 in diameter, gregarious, yellowish (dried specimens almost 
white), slightly collapsing, becoming subtruncate, or with the ostiolum still more depressed 
so as to appear umbilicate; asci when young tapering into a rather pointed apex, finally cla- 
vate, 35-40 X 5, 8-spored ; spores crowded, fusoid, 1-septate, slightly constricted, 12 X 2-3 u. 
On the inside of white cedar bark which has been stripped from the tree. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Newfield, New Jersey. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION : ne cae 1: pl. 5. 4. 
ExsIccaTr: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 2332. 
13. Nectria rhytidospora Pat. Jour. de Bot. 3: 343. 1889. 
Perithecia scattered, or 2 or 3 closely crowded, but entirely devoid of stroma, at first 
very minute, becoming larger with age, at length attaining a diameter of about 300, 
