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10. Creonectria Cucurbitula (Sacc.) Seaver, Mycologia 1: 189. 1909. 
? Cucurbitaria Pinasiri Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. £1. 50. 1823. 
Nectria Cucurbitula Sacc. Michelia 1: 409. 1878. Not (?) W. Cucurbitula Fries, 1849, 
Perithecial clusters erumpent and often very irregular in form, 1-2 mm. in diameter, 
consisting of numerous densely cespitose perithecia; individual perithecia bright-red, later 
becoming reddish-purple, ovoid with a prominent, rather obtuse ostiolum, entire or very 
rarely collapsing ; asci cylindric or clavate, 75-100 & 6-8 /, 8-spored ; spores at first crowded 
and partially 2-seriate, finally becoming 1-seriate, obliquely arranged with ends overlapping, 
broad-fusoid, rarely subellipsoid, 1-septate and not constricted at the septum, hyaline, 14- 
16 X 5-7 # (mostly 15K 74). 
On bark of Pinus, Abies, and Larix. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION : Newfoundland to New York and Ontario; also in Europe. 
11. Creonectria diploa (Berk. & Curt.) Seaver, 
Mycologia 1: 190. 1909. 
Nectria diploa Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 378. 1868. 
Perithecia in dense, erumpent clusters about 0.5 mm. in diameter; individual perithecia 
minute, ovoid, nearly smooth, bright-red, finally collapsing; asci cylindric, 8-spored; 
spores vertically 2-seriate, very large, fusoid, 1-septate, hyaline, with 2-4 oil-drops, 20- 
25 X 7-10 #. 
On bark of Alxus sp. 
TYPm LOCALITY : South Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
ExXsiccaTI: Rav. Fungi Car. 3: 55. 
12. Creonectria Ipomoeae (Halsted) Seaver. 
Nectria Ipomoeae Halsted, Ann. Rep. N. J. Exp. Sta. 12: 281. 1892. 
Conidial phase more or less effuse, white ; conidia fusiform or fusoid, 3-septate; peri- 
thecia cespitose, globose-conic, with the ostiolum acute, externally rough-verrucose, red ; 
asci subcylindric, 8-spored ; spores ellipsoid, 1-septate, smooth, constricted, hyaline. 
On sweet potatoes and egg-plant. 
TYPE LOCALITY : New Jersey. 
DISTRIBUTION : New Jersey. 
ILLUSTRATION: Ann. Rep. N. J. Exp. Sta. 12: /. 20-22. 
13. Creonectria Bainii (Massee) Seaver. 
Nectria Baintt Massee, Kew Bull. 1899: 5. 1899. 
Conidial phase ( Verticillium ?) more or less effuse, giving to the substratum a white- 
powdered appearance, later forming minute, whitish, floccose stromata; conidiophores 
several times compound, verticillately branched, about 75-1004 in length, the final branch- 
lets produced in tufts or whorls with a single conidium at the tip of each final branch; conidia 
ellipsoid, hyaline, simple, about 5 24; perithecia in small dense clusters, the clusters 
often confluent, with numerous scattered perithecia; individual perithecia ovoid, with a 
rather prominent ostiolum, often floccose with the conidiophores, or naked and smooth or 
nearly so, orange, fading to pale-yellow in old specimens, about 300-350 in diameter; 
asci clavate, 8-spored ; spores partially 2-seriate, hyaline, 1-septate, scarcely constricted at 
the septum, about 12-14 X 5 z. 
On cacao pods. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Trinidad. 
DISTRIBUTION : Jamaica; also in Trinidad. 
ILLUSTRATION: Kew Bull. 1899: p72. 1, f. ¢-I2. 
14. Creonectria ochroleuca (Schw.) Seaver, Mycolcgia 1: 190. 1909. 
Sphaeria ochroleuca Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 204. 1832. 
Nectria saccharina Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 378. 1868. 
Nectria ochroleuca Berk. Grevillea 4: 16. 1875. 
Nectria aureofulva Cooke & Ellis, Grevillea 7: 8. 1878. 
Nectria depauperata Cooke, Grevillea 7: 50. 1878. 
Nectria vulgaris Speg. Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 12: 210. 1881. 
