Pyrenomycetese, Hypocreacese, Hyaiodidymj», Nectria. 963 



ascis clavatis, paraphysibus rnucosi.s cinctis; sporidiis ellipsoideo- 

 elon-gatis, subcurvolis, hyalinis, guttulis iarctis. 



Hab. iu caulibus putridis Dahliae, Marne GallifB. — Perithe- 

 cia interdum conidiis hyalinis, basidiis 1-2-septatis suflfultis {Oospo- 

 ra nectruGola Rich.) adspersa. 



35. Nectria Epichloe Speg. Fungi Guar. Pug. I, n. 240. — Perithe- 3876 

 ciis matrice s^epius infuscata (raacula eSusa, brunnea, uon deter- 

 minata) insldeatibus, hypothallo furfuraceo-pruiimloso, caudido do- 

 natis, densissirae subcrustaceo-aggregatLs, pallide aurantiacis vel 

 fulvo-melleis, siccis subcupulato-collapsis, ruga transversa prorai- 

 nula percursis, udis globosis, 80-120 u. d., glabris, levibus,. carno- 

 sulis, contextu minutissime ac indistincte parenchyraatico-celluloso 

 fulvello ; ascis fusoideo- vel cylindraceo-clavatis, apice truncatis 

 crassiusculeque tunicatis, deorsum modice altenuato-stipitatis, 50- 

 55'*' 7-8; paraphysibus paucis, filiforraibus simplicibus obvallatis, 

 octosporis; sporidiis ellipticis v. eiliptico-ovoideis, utrinque acute 

 rotundatis, 9-11 ^3-4, primo continuis, dein raedio I-septatis, non 

 constrictis, loculis non v. guttulatis, hyalinis. 



Hab. ad folia viva Andropogonis speciei cujusdara in pra- 

 tis prope Guarapi Bras. — Species pulcherrima distinctissiraa, ha- 

 bitu Epiohioem ti/phinani perfecfce £em.uians, characteribus fructi- 

 ficationis tamen mox distinguenda, facile novum genus constitueos. 



36. Nectria glberelloides (E. et E.) Sacc. Dialonectria E. et E. Journ, 3877 

 Myc. 1888, p. 122. — Peritheciis sparsis, subnigris, 150-200 u.. 

 diam., basi in stipitem brevera contractis, demum collahascentibus, 

 contextu miuute parenchymatico, nuniquam cyaneo; ascis oblongis 



vel clavato-oblongis, sessilibus, circ. 35^*5, aparaphysatis ; spo- 

 ridiis subdistichis, fusoideis, l-.septatis, rectis vel unura apicem 

 versus incurvis, flavido-hyalinis, 12-15^2.5-3. 



Hab. in culmis emortuis Zeae Maydis, Pointe ;l la Hache 

 Louisiana Amer. bor. 



37. Nectria filicina Cooke et Hark. in Grevillea XII, pag. 101. — 3878 

 Sparsa vel gregaria, aurantia, inira squainulas filicis nidiilans; pe- 

 ritheciis obovatis, levibus, glabris, subnitidis, vix papillatis; ascis 

 cyliadraceis, octosporis,- sporidiis elliptico-cylindricis, utrinque ob- 

 tusis, hyalini.?, 8 ^ 2,5. 



Hah. in stipite filicino in Califoraia. 



38. Nectria asperula Winter in Hedwigia 1886, pag. 93. — Peri- 3879 

 theciis deiKse sparsis seu gregariis, superficialibus, e basi globosa 

 conoideis in ostiolum couicum vel breve cyliudricum, dilutius, fero 



