Part 1, 1910] NECTRIACEAEB 13 
minute ostiolum, often collapsing when dry, becoming pezizoid ; asci clavate, 35-40 x 6; 
spores crowded, small, ellipsoid to fusoid, 1-3-septate, 10-12 & 2-3 #. 
On living leaves of various kinds, usually on the remains of Meliola. 
TYPE LOCALITY: France. 
DISTRIBUTION : Florida; also in Europe. 
ExsiccaTi: Desmaz, Pl. Crypt. 1766 (cotype). 
2. Calonectria diminuta (Berk.) Berl. & Vogl.; 
Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 985. 1891. 
Nectria diploa diminuia Berk. Grevillea 4: 46. 1875. 
Dialonectria diminuta Cooke, Grevillea 12: 83. 1884. 
? Calonectria Dearnessti Ellis & Ev. Proc, Acad. Phila. 1890: 245. 1890. 
Perithecia minute, 150-175 “ in diameter, scattered or more or less crowded on the sub- 
stratum, surroutided by radiating mycelium giving somewhat the appearance of a stroma 
but no true stroma present, orange, partially collapsing ; asci cylindric or clavate; spores 
irregularly crowded, variable in size and form, ellipsoid, clavate, or subfusoid, usually 
3-septate, hyaline, 25-35 X 6-7». 
On sphaeriaceous fungi (Massaria, ete.). 
TYPE LOCALITY : South Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION : South Carolina (and Canada ?). 
Exsiccasti: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2548 (C. Dearnessii). 
3. Calonectria melioloides Speg. Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 19: 41. 1885. 
? Calonectria guarapiensis Speg. Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 19: 41. 1885. 
Plants gregarious and surrounded by an evanescent, white mycelial growth consisting 
of delicate radiating hyphae; perithecia subglobose to ovoid, 200-250 in diameter, with 
the wall composed of irregular cells 5-8 4. in diameter, clothed with a few rigid, hyaline, 
many-septate hairs with a bulbous base; hairs 7-8 in diameter and 200-400» long; asci 
clavate, 80-100 X12-154; spores 2-seriate or irregularly crowded, fusiform, 3-septate, 
hyaline, 30-35 X 7-84. 
On the mycelium of Meola on living leaves. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Brazil. 
DISTRIBUTION: Louisiana ; also in South America. 
Exsiccati1: Roum. Fungi Sel. 474Z (cotype); Roum. Fungi Gall. 4047 (cotype of C. guara- 
piensis Speg.). 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
Calonectria Curtisii (Berk.) Sacc. Michelia 1: 316. 1878. Nectria Curtisii Berk. 
Grevillea 4: 46. 1875. 
Calonectria muscivora (Berk & Br.) Sacc. Michelia 1: 315. 1878. Sphaeria muscivora 
Berk. & Br. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 7: 188. 1851. Nectria muscivora Cooke, Handb. 
Brit. Fungi 786. 1871. Reported from North America. 
7. OPHIONECTRIA Sacc. Michelia 1: 323. 1878. 
Tubeufia Penz. & Sacc. Malpighia 11: 517. 1898. 
Perithecia scattered or gregarious, globose or pyriform, superficial, light-colored, yel- 
low or brownish ; asci cylindric to clavate, 8-spored ; spores very much elongate, approach- 
ing filiform, at least 10 times as long as broad, many-septate. 
Type species, ectria trichospora Berk. & Br. 
Perithecia globose or subglobose; spores 35-50 u long; on fungi. 1. O. cerea. : 
Perithecia elongate, substipitate ; spores 60-75 « long ; on cornstalks. 2. O. cylindrothecia. 
1. Ophionectria cerea (Berk. & Curt.) Ellis & Ev. N. Am. 
Pyrenom. 118. 1892. 
Sphaeria cerea Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Grevillea 4: 108. 1876. 
Calonectria cerea Sacc. Syll. Fung. 2: 551. 1883. 
Nectria fulvida Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 1: 140. 1885. 
Dialonectria fuluida Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 2: 136. 1886. 
Obhionectria Everhartit Ellis & Gall. Jour. Myc. 6: 32. 1890. 
Perithecia gregarious, nearly globose, dull-yellow, becoming darker with age, more or 
less rough and furfuraceous externally, or with a few hair-like outgrowths, with a papilliform 
