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slightly collapsing, becoming pezizoid, surrounded at the base with a growth of brown, 
crooked, septate hairs, 100-200 # long and 3-4 thick; asci clavate, 75-80 X 10; spores 2- 
seriate or rather irregularly crowded in the ascus, ellipsoid, straight or curved, 1-septate, 
slightly constricted, with a distinct oil-drop in each cell, pale-brown, 18-20 X7-8.54; 
paraphyses filiform. 
On bark of an undetermined tree or shrub. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Ometépe, Nicaragua. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
17. GIBBERELLA Sacc. Michelia 1: 43. 1877. 
Stromata (/usarium) tubercular or more or less effuse ; perithecia cespitose or occa- 
sionally scattered on or surrounding the stromata; asci clavate, 8-spored; spores fusoid, 
3-many-septate, hyaline. 
Type species, Sphacria pulicaris Fries. 
1. Gibberella pulicaris (Fries) Sacc. Michelia 1: 43. 1877. 
Sphaeria pulicaris Fries, in Kunze & Schmidt, Myk. Hefte 2: 37. 1823. 
Sphaeria Saubinetii Dur. & Mont. in Dur. Expl. Sci. Algér. Bot. 1: 479. 1849. 
Gibbera pulicaris Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 402. 1849. 
Gibbera Saubinetii Mont. Syll. Crypt. 252. 1856. 
Botryosphaeria pulicaris Ces, & De-Not. Comm. Critt. Ital. 1: 212. 1863. 
Gibberella Saubinetit Sacc. Michelia 1: 513. 1879. 
Perithecia in cespitose clusters 0.5-1 mm. in diameter, seated on a stroma or occasion- 
ally more or less scattered around it, ovoid, with arather prominent ostiolum, minutely 
rough, finally collapsing, black to the unaided eye, blue with transmitted light ; asci clavate, 
tapering above, 50-55 x10“; spores crowded in the ascus, fusiform, straight or curved, 
3-septate, hyaline or slightly yellowish, 18-20 X 5-6. 
On cornstalks, herbaceous stems, and bark of trees and shrubs. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION : New Jersey to North Dakota, Kansas, and West Virginia; alsoin Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. pl. 13, f. 1-6; EH. & P. Nat. Pfl. 1b: f. 240, G-/. 
EXsICcaTI: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 8&7; Wilson & Seaver, Ascom. 32. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
Gibberella acervalis (Moug.) Sacc. Michelia 1: 318. 1878. Sphaeria acervalis Moug.; 
Fries, Elench. Fung. 2: 83. 1828. 
Gibberella cyanogena {Desmaz.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 2: 555. 1883. Sphaeria cyano- 
gena Desmaz. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 10: 352. 1848. 
Gibberella ‘‘ ficini’’ (Cooke & Hark.) Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Pyrenom. 120. 1892. Gzd- 
bera ‘ ficini’” Cooke & Hark. Grevillea 9: 87. 1881. 
18. SCOLECONECTRIA Seaver, Mycologia 1: 197. 1909. 
Stromata subglobose, tubercular or depressed ; perithecia superficial on or surrounding 
the stroma, in dense clusters or more or less evenly scattered ; asci 2-8-spored, cylindric to 
clavate; spores 3-many-septate, fusoid to subfiliform, hyaline or subhyaline. 
Type species, Ophionectria scolecospora Bref. 
Spores filiform or subfiliform, very long. 
On dead branches of Pinus ; spores 40-50 X 2.5-3 #. 
On scale-insects; spores 100-120 x 6-7 /. 
Spores fusoid or subellipsoid, comparatively short. : 
Stromata prominent, tubercular, 1-2 mm. high. 3. S. canadensis. 
Stromata depressed, inconspicuous. 
Asci 8-spored. 
Spares subellipsoid, curved. 4. S. polythalama, 
Spores fusiform or subfusiform. . : 
Perithecia red; ascospores accompanied by smaller spore-like 2 
bodies. 5. S. balsamea, 
Perithecia yellowish to brownish ; spore-like bodies absent. 6. S. Atkinsonit. 
Asci 4-spored. 7. S. letraspora. 
. S. scolecospora. 
. S. coccicola. 
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