119 



asci, curved when free, 35-50 x 3-3J /t. slightly tapering- from tlie mid- 

 dle to each end. 



On old Diatrype stiytna and on the bark of decaying oak limits. 

 New Jersey and Carolina. 



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We can not say positively that SpJm'i'ta cerect. B..& C. and 

 OpMonectria Evcrhartii, E. & G. are the same, but the probability 

 of their identity is so strong that we have assumed it to be a fact. 

 There may also be some question of generic relationship : but if jfec- 

 tri'i ineliita, Mont, can be referred to Ophionectria, as is done in Saco. 

 Syll. II, p. 563, our species may properly go there too, having sporidia 

 still narrower than in that species. 



0. eoceicola, (E. & E.) 



Nectria eoceicola, E. & E. Journ Mycol. II, p. 39. 

 Dialonectria eoceicola, E. & E. 1. c. II, p. 137. 



Perithecia cespitose, membranaceous, about \ mm. diam. and i 

 mm. high, flesh-color, becoming dirty buff when mature, obovate. asto- 

 mous, surface roughish. with a few scattered, white, rudimentary hairs, 

 or at length bald. Asci clavate-cylindrical, 150-190 x 20 /*, witli abun- 

 dant, rather stout paraphys-. Sporidia eiglit in an ascus. clavate-cyl- 

 indrical, multinucleate, hyaline. 110-140x6-7 // at tin- uppoi- cud. 

 attenuated l>elow. 



On dead scale insects on bark of living orange trees. Florida 

 (Scribner). 



The groups of perithecia are seated either on the shells of dead 



insects or on the bark itself, with a subiculum more or less distinct, 

 composed of white, decumbent or prostrate hairs of the same charac- 

 ter as those found on the perithecia themselves. The species seem To 

 be quite distinct. 



GIBBERELLA, Saec. 



Mich. I, p. 43. 



Perithecia either cespitose and stromatically connected or separate. 

 Asci 8-spored. Sporidia subfusoid, 3-pluri-septate, subhyaline. The 

 substance of the perithecia is of a blue or violet tint. 



G. aeervalis, (Moug.) 



Sphczria aeervalis, Moug. in Fr. Elench. II, p. 83. 

 Gibberella aeervalis, Sacc. Syll. 4979- 



Emergent, bare and black, collected in small heaps or clusters. 

 Perithecia subconnate, globose, rugulose, at length umbilicate. Asci 

 oblong, 70 x 10 jut. Sporidia ovate-oblong, 3-septate. hyaline, 18x6 a. 



