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octosporis. Sporidiis elliptico-lanceolatis, continuis, granu- 

 losis, hyaliiiis, 30-33 X 10 f^.. On Botryosphxria inflata, 

 Habgalla, Ceylon 6.2)." I was unable to find Nectriella 

 giyaspora on the type of Botryosphseria inflata in Herb. Kew, 

 but there are specimens in Herb. Peradeniya, Thwaites 1107, 

 sub Nectria suffulta. 



The perithecia are about 0*4 mm. diameter, collapsed, dark 

 red, pruinose, with a thin wall of rather large, thick-walled 

 cells, up to 14 \i. broad. They are solitary, or in small groups 

 on an erumpent stroma. The Peradeniya specimens are too 

 old to show complete asci. The spores are oval, thick-walled, 

 verrucose, pale yellow, continuous, 34-54 x 15-28 [a. It 

 appears to be parasitic on a Spheeria. According to modern 

 classification, this must be known as Pseudonectria gigaspora. 



Nectria fenestrata Berk. & Curt. 



As previously stated in Ann. Perad., VI., p. 172, this 

 species was described by Cooke in Grevillea, XII., p. 81, from 

 specimens in Berkeley's herbarium. In the cover of this 

 species in Herb. Kew there is a drawing, marked Ceylon 28, 

 which bears a note in Berkeley's handwriting : " A Nectria 

 mixed with Sphxrostilbe.''' There is an abundance of speci- 

 mens, which are ThAvaites No. 48. On the same sheet is a 

 specimen from Canada, labelled ' Sphserostilbe pseudotrichia, 

 Nec'ria fenestrata." The specimens are Megalonectria pseudo- 

 trichia Schw., and 28 and 48 are the Thwaites "s numbers 

 recorded by Berkeley and Broome for that species. Apparent- 

 ly Berkeley discovered that his Nectria fenestrata was Megalo- 

 nectria pseudotrichia, and did not publish the former name. 



Nectria myriadea Ces. 



This species was collected by Beccari and described by 

 Cesati. The description is " Perithecia minutissima, conferta, 

 ovata, demum collapsa, pallide aurantia, tenuiter granulosa. 

 Asci lineares, 0018 longi. Sporidia oblique monosticha, 

 naviculseformia, continua, 1-guttulata, 5x3. Secundum 

 mensuram Cookii = 016 X 008. Ad lignum nudum." It was 

 included in Saccardo, II., p. 450, as Nectriella, the length of 

 the ascus being given as 54 [k. Cesati's unit was 2 [>. ; hence 



