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coat of powdery material which finally disappears, leaving the perithecia of a dull-red color, 
finally collapsing ; asci cylindric or clavate, 50-60 >< 12-154, 8-spored; spores crowded, 
ellipsoid, curved, yellowish-hyaline, 7-septate (mostly), 18-22 & 5. 
On Chionanthus, Fraxinus, and Liquidambar. 
TYPE LOCALITY: New Zealand. 
DISTRIBUTION : Virginia to Alabama. 
ILLUSTRATION: Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zeland. p/. 106, f. 15. 
Pap Ellis, Fungi Nova-Caesar. 69; Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 79; Rav. Fungi Car. 3: 54, 
5. Scoleconectria balsamea (Cooke & Peck) Seaver, 
Mycologia 1: 200. 1909. 
Nectria balsamea Cooke & Peck (; Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 26: 84; hyponym. 1874); 
Cooke, Grevillea 12: 81. 1884. 
? Calonectria Cucurbitula Sacc. Michelia 1: 312. 1878. 
Calonectria balsamea Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 986. 1891. 
Perithecial clusters small, 1-2 mm. in diameter, erumpent through the onter bark; indi- 
vidual perithecia nearly globose, smooth or minutely rough, red; in dried specimens dull 
brick-red, entirely collapsing, becoming pezizoid ; asci cylindric to clavate, at first filled with 
numerous minute, spore-like bodies about 2 x 1 among which are several (2-4) true spores; 
spores fusiform, 5-6-septate, granular within, 15-25 & 4-54. 
On the branches of Abies balsamea (\.) Mill. 
TYPE LOCALITY: North Elba, New York. 
DISTRIBUTION: Newfoundland to Minnesota and New York. 
6. Scoleconectria Atkinsonii (Rehm) Seaver, 
Mycologia 1: 201. 1909. 
Calonectria Atkinsoniit Rehm, Ann. Myc. 2: 178. 1904. 
Perithecia erumpent in dense clusters 1-2 mm. in diameter; individual perithecia sub- 
conic, tapering into a prominent obtuse ostiolum, at first densely yellow-furfuraceous with 
the ostiolum bare and darker-colored, finally becoming bare and dark brownish-black ; asci 
clavate with a subtruncate apex and slender stem-like base, 90-100 « 15-17 », 8-spored ; 
spores fusoid or subfusiform, at first l-septate, becoming 3-septate and constricted at the 
middle septum, mostly curved, hyaline or subhyaline, 27-33 X 8-9; paraphyses filiform, 
3 in diameter. 
On dead branches of Acer, Crataegus, Tilia, etc. 
TYPE LOCALITY: McKinney’s Glen [New York]. 
DISTRIBUTION: Ontario and New York. 
ExsiccaTi: Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 2006 (as Calonectria chlorinella). 
7. Scoleconectria tetraspora Seaver, sp. nov. 
Perithecia in dense, cespitose clusters 0.5-2 mm. in diameter, seated on an indistinct - 
stroma, superficial on the surface of the substratum, globose or subglobose, often with the 
ostiolum slightly collapsed or entire, covered externally with conspicuous, bran-like, whitish 
outgrowths, giving the plants a decidedly verrucose appearance, pale-orange, about 250- 
300 # in diameter ; asci broadly clavate, 75-80 X 10-12», 4-spored ; spores 1-seriate or crowded 
near the center of the ascus, with the ends overlapping, ellipsoid, or with the ends slightly 
narrowed, straight or a little curved, hyaline and more or less granular within, distinctly 
3-septate, 25-28 X 8-10z. 
Type collected on cacao trunks at Port Maria, Jamaica, November 14, 1902, FS. Harle 455 
(herb. N, Y. Bot. Gard.). : 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
19. ECHINODOTHIS Atk. Bull. Torrey Club 21: 224. 1894. 
Dussiella Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 6: 107, in part. 1890. 
Stromata subfleshy or corky, light-colored, pulvinate to subglobose or irregular in form, 
often constricted at the base, sometimes entirely surrounding the host, consisting of several 
layers of different consistency ; perithecia superficial, scattered, subcylindric, sessile, giving 
