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previously occupied l>y the cabbages, at Newfield, N. J., also on sweet 

 potato steins, at Vineland, N. J., and on old cabbage stalks and stem? 

 >f >SVr///M/// (iffufe, Louisiana (Langlois). 



N. Apocyni, Fk. 26th Rep. N. Y. State Mus. p. 84. 



"Cespitose or scattered, dull red. Perithecia minute, pale ochra- 

 eeous and subglobose when moist, dull red, collapsed or latterly com- 

 pressed and rough, with minute, whitish scales when dry; ostiola 

 minute. Sporidia biseriate, uniseptate, filiform, usually constricted in 

 the middle, nucleate, 16-20 /j. long." Specimens found at Xewfield, 

 X. J., July, 1883, on dead stems of Asci epias t uberosa, with Volutella 

 flexnosa, C. & E., had asci about 35x7 /;, sporidia 12-18x3^-4 /JL. 

 constricted at the septum and nucleate. 



N. depallens, Cke. & Hark. Grev. XII, p. 82. 



Scattered or gregarious, superficial, brick-red, fading out. Peri- 

 thecia subglobose, smooth, bare, opake, 200-250 JJL. Asci clavate. 

 ^-spored. Sporidia lanceolate, subacute at each end, uniseptate, not 

 constricted, hyaline, 22-24 x4-4| p. 



On stems of Lupinus, California (Harkness). 



N. Curtisii, Berk. Grev. IV, p. 46. 



"Minute, erurnpent, scattered. Asci lanceolate. Sporidia ob- 

 long, curved, with four nuclei, 12x2 /*." 

 On Zea, So. Carolina (Ravenel). 



N. episphaWia (Tode). 



Sphczria episphczria, Tode Fung. Meckl. II, p. 21. 

 SphcBria erythrococcus, Ehr. Sylv. Ber. p. 9. 

 Nectria episphczria. Fr. Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 388. 



Exsicc. Rab. F. E. 262, 642. Rehm Asc. 585. Thum. M. U. 766. Sydow M March. 352. 

 Rav. F. Am. 340. Roum. F. Gall. 4655. Ell. N. A. F. 469. 



Perithecia gregarious or scattered, superficial, subsphaeroid, col- 

 lapsing and frequently subcompressed, soft, smooth, blood-red, about 

 180 // cliam., with a papilliform ostiolum. Asci cylindrical, 50-60 x 

 5_6 ^ 8-spored. Sporidia obliquely uniseriate, subellipsoid, rather un- 

 equally uniseptate, hyaline, slightly constricted, 7-10x4-5 /JL. 



On various sphseriaceous fungi Diatrype, Hypoxylon, Valm, 

 etc., common. 



N. rubefaciens, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. Ill, p. 116. 



Perithecia globose, 80 p diam., smooth, or roughened with scat- 

 tered, rudimentary, gland-like hairs, subastomous, of fine cellular 

 texture. ]allid at first, becoming orange-red. Asci broad-clavate, 



