114 



100-125x12-15 //, with abundant, filiform paraphyses. Sporidia 

 luseriate, broad -fusiform, slightly curved, subhyaline. 1-3-septiite and 

 constricted at the middle septum, 25-35x7-8 //. 



Cooke makes the sporidia 18-20x5 it.. They vary considerably, 

 iut mature and well developed specimens have the sporidia as above. 



On bark of Uhnux, seaboard of South Carolina (Ravenel), on 

 various kinds of decaying wood and limbs, (oak, Rhus, &c.), Xewfield, 

 X. J., and on decaying elm, Canada (Macoun & Dearness). Tlie 

 ostioluni is sometimes more or less compressed, so as to resemble 

 LopMostoma. 



C. Deamessii, E. & E. Proc. Phil. Acad. July, 1890, p. 245. 



Perithecia 3-12 in a cluster, ovate, narrowed above and below, 

 light orange-yellow, about 165 /JL diam. and a little more than that 

 in height, seated on a white, radiate-fibrous, silky mycelium which at 

 first partially envelops and clothes the perithecia but finally disappears. 

 Ostiola broad papilliform, not distinctly prominent, at length slightly 

 collapsing. Asci 75-80 x 10-12 //, with paraphyses. Sporidia oblong- 

 cylindrical, obtuse, yellowish-hyaline, biseriate, 3-5-septate, more or 

 less constricted at the septa, 25-35 x 6-7 /;., ends obtuse, slightly curved. 



Cespitose on the ostiola of some Massama^ on F raxinusl and 

 Ulmu^ Canada (Dearness). 



C. balsamea, (C. & P.) 



Xectria balsame.a^. & P. 26th. Rep. N. Y. S^ate Mus. p. 84, Grev. XII, p. 81. 



Erumpent, cespitose, suborbicular. Perithecia rather small, smooth, 

 scarlet, papillate, at length collapsed, crowded on a pale stroma, Asci 

 cvlindric-clavate, 8-spored. Sporidia fusiform, hyaline, 5-septate, 30 x 



7 S /JL. 



On bark of Abies balsamea, New York (Peck). 



C. diminnta, (Cke.) 



Dialonectria dtminuta, (B. & C.) Cke. Grev. XII, p. 83. 

 Nectria diploa var. diminnta, B. & C. Grev. IV, p. 46. 



Very minute, scarlet. Asci lanceolate but obtuse. Sporidia 

 sometimes larger, binucleate, at length triseptate (uniseptate, Berk.), 

 unisei-iate, or smaller, 4-nucleate, biseriate, 25-30 x 8| //. 



On some Sph<t'i-i<i, on aldei-, South Carolina (Ravenel). 



PLEONE1TRIA, Sace. 



F. Ven. Nov. Ser. V. 178, Mich. I. p. 324. 



Perithecia cespitose, subglobose, bright colored, carnose-mem- 



