Hypocreace;e, Hyaiodidyraas, Necfcna. 479 



minutissime atque subalternatim densiuscule ganglioso-flocculoso ; 

 perithechs nodulis bifurcationum rnycelii immersis primo tectis deiti 

 mycelio squarrulose evanescente, subnudis, hemisphaericis, scutato- 

 dimidiatis, matrici adnatis, astomis, 200-250 u. diam., ceraceo-te- 

 nacellis, albis, contextu indistincte -celluloso, pallidissime fusco ful- 

 vescente; ascis cylindraceis, apice obtusato-rotundatis, crassiuscu- 

 leque tunicatis, basi abrupte coarctato-pedicellatis, 75-90^8-9, 

 paraphysibus filiformibus vix longioribus immixtis, octosporis; spo- 

 ridiis oblique monostichis v. subdistichis, elliptico-biconicis, uirin- 

 que attenuato-acutiusculis, 15-18^5, medio 1-septato-constrictu- 

 lis, hyalinis. 



Jlab. ad epiphyllum Filicis cujusdam viventis foliis coriaceis, 

 nec non foliorum dejectorum Myrtaceae cujusdam prope Apiahy, 

 in Brasilia meridionali (Doct. J. PxneaAiti). 



NECTRIA Fr. Summa Veg. Scand. pa^. 1587. (Etym. a neclo, quia 

 perithecia ssepius crespitoso-connexa). — Perithecia iibera, caespi- 

 tosa ve! discreta, subinde stromati primifcus conidifero. definito, 

 carnosulo insidentia, ostiolo ut plurimum papillato, carnosa vel 

 submembranacea, mollia, glabra vel villosula vel squamulosa vel 

 byssiseda, laete picta. Asci cylindraceo-clavati octospori, non vel 

 spurie paraphysati. Sporidia oblongata, ellipsoidea vej fusoideo- 

 elongata, uniseptata, hyalina, rarissime rufescentia. 



I. Eu-Nectria: peritheciis typice stromatico-ca&spitosis, glahroscentibus. 



1. Nectria einnabarina (Tode) Fr. Summa Veg. Scand. p. 388, Sphce- 4662 

 ria cinnaharina Tode Mekl. II, p. 9. f. 08, Sph. decolorans Pers., 

 Walir., Sph. fragiformis Sow. — Peritheciis caespitosis, confertis, 

 stromate pulviniformi, hemisphaerico, carnosulo, primitus conidia 

 secernente, instratis, sphteroideis, corrugatis, cinnabarinis, detnum 

 fuscescente-expallentibus, ostiolo papilliformi; ascis cyJindraceo- 

 subclavatis, apice leviter attenuatis, 00-90 ^ 8-12, octosporis ; spo- 

 ridiis disticliis vel submonostichis oblongatis, utrinque obtusis, re- 

 ctis vel leviter curvulis, uuiseptatis hyalinis, L4-16s5-7. — Sta- 

 tus conidicus: Tubercularia vulgaris Tode. 



Ilab. in ramis corticatis emortuis arborum et.fruticum fero 

 omnium in tota Europa, Ceylon, Sibiria, Amer. bor. — Var. levior 

 Sacc. Rel. Lib. II, n. 210: peritheciis minus rugosis. [n Fraxino, 

 Salice etc. in Gallia. Var. Tilise Karsi Symb. Myc. Fenn. VI, 

 p. 239; sporidiis elongatis curvulis, 18-26 z4 b.b. in ramis Tilise 



