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22. Nectria Rexiana Ellis, Am. Nat. 17: 194. 1883. 
? Hypocrea tenerrima Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Phila, 1893: 442, 1894. 
Perithecia nearly globose, yellowish, clothed with a dense covering of long, flexuous, 
hyaline (white to the naked eye), septate, rough hairs; perithecia 150-200 in diameter ; 
asci cylindric, 30-40 X 4-54, 8-spored ; spores mostly 1-seriate or partially 2-seriate above, 
minute, cylindric or allantoid, hyaline, faintly 1-septate, 5 XK 2 wu. 
Parasitic on a slime-mould (Chondrioderma). 
TYPE LOCALITY: Adirondack mountains, New York. 
DISTRIBUTION: Maine to New York. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mycologia 1: £1. 5, f. 6. 
23. Nectria squamulosa Ellis, Bull. Torrey Club 9: 20. 1882. 
Perithecia gregarious, minute, 100-125 in diameter, light-colored (when dry nearly 
white), with a prominent darker ostiolum, clothed externally, except the ostiolum, with 
a dense covering of delicate, hyaline hairs which are 24 in diameter and 10-20 yp long; 
asci narrowed above and below, 20-25 X 5-6, 8-spored; spores mostly 2-seriate, minute, 
6-7 X 1.5-2#, 1-septate, sometimes very slightly constricted. 
On rotten wood. 
TYPE LocaLiry: [Newfield,] New Jersey. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mycologia 1: ~1.5, f. 7. 
DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES 
Nectria flavella Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 16: 186. 1901. : 
Nectria gibberelloides (Ellis & Ev.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 963. 1891. Ddzalonectria 
gibberelloides Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 4: 122. 1888. Nota Nectria. 
Nectria infusaria Cooke & Hark.; Cooke, Grevillea 12: 101. 1884. 
Nectria lagenaeformis Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 378. 1868. Nota 
Nectria. 
Nectria Leightoni Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 379. 1868. A discomycete. 
Nectria mobilis (Tode) Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 388. 1849. Sphaeriamobilis Tode, 
Fungi Meckl. 2:8. 1791. Reported from North America. 
Nectria perpusilla (Mont.) Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 378, 1868. 
Hypocrea perpusilla Mont. Pl. Cell. Cuba 337. 1842. 
Nectria pityrodes (Mont.) Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 378. 1868. 
Sphaeria pityrodes Mont. Pl. Cell. Cuba 333. 1842. 
Nectria secalina Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 8: 66. 1902. No specimen found in the Ellis 
collection. Description suggests Creonectria ochroleuca (Schw.) Seaver. 
Nectria sinopica Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 388. 1849. Sphaeria sinopica Fries, 
Elench. Fung. 2: 81. 1828. Reported from North America. 
Nectria subiculosa Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 378. 1868. 
Nectria zealandica Cooke, Grevillea 8: 65. 1879. Reported from North America. 
b CALONECTRIA De-Not. Comm. Critt. Ital. 2: 477. 1867. 
Perithecia free, often closely gregarious, or scattered, with no true stroma, but peri- 
thecia often surrounded with radiating white mycelium which gives to some of the species a 
stromate appearance; perithecia globose to ovoid, red or yellow; asci elongate, 8-spored ; 
spores elongate, more than 1-septate. 
Type species, Calonectria Daldiniana De-Not. 
Spores small, not exceeding 15 “ in length. 1. C. erubescens, 
Spores large, 25-35 # in length. . : 
Spores subellipsoid; plants occurring on fungi on dead branches, 2. C. diminuta, 
Spores fusiform ; plants on leaves. 3. C. melioloides, 
1. Calonectria erubescens (Roberge) Sacc. Michelia 1: 309. 1878. 
Sphaeria erubescens Roberge ; Desmaz. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 6: 72. 1846. 
Perithecia minute, gregarious in clusters or scattered, surrounded by a scant growth of 
radiating mycelial threads, at first pale-red, fading to pale-yellow, subglobose, with a 
