SPH^EIACEI. 781 



On various brandies as elder, fig, willow, laburnum, &c. 



[Low. & Mid. Carolina.] ' 



The Fusarium forms little gregarious red dots on dead steins of mallows, 

 &c. The sporidia measure ("OOOG-'OOl in.) •015-'025 m.m. 



Fuckel states that Fusarium roseum Lk. is the conidia of Gihhcra Sauhi- 

 nettii ; Tulasne refers it to Nectria pulicarU. 



2345. Nectria ochxacea. Fr. " Ochraceous Nectria." 



Caespitose, peritbecia globose, furfuraceous, brigbt yellow- 

 ocbre ; ostiola impressed, papillieform ; sporidia ? — Fr. S.V.S. 

 p. 387. Sph. ochracea Grev. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 252. Fr. El. ii. p. 79. 



On dead twigs. Durbam. 



This most beautiful and curious species resembles very much Nectria cin~ 

 naharina, but is distinct both in the colour of the perithecia and stroma, 

 which latter is at length black. Fries informs us that he lias received the 

 stroma quite naked and a true Tuberculai'ia, as he believes T. lutescens, Link. 

 —Berk, in Eng. Fl. 



2346. Nectria cinnabarina. Fr. " Vermillion Xectria." 



CoxiDiA. — Erumpent, stratum of conidia red, margin naked. — 

 Tuhercularia vulgaris, Tode.f. 30. Moug. exs. no. 84. Fr. S.M. 

 iii. p. 464. Sow. t. 2^4:. Baxt. exs. no. 100. Desm. exs.no. 110. 

 Rahh. exs. no. Ill . Gard. Chron. Jan. 28, 1811, Jig. 26. 



AscoPHORE. — Cjespitose, peritbecia globose, corrugated, Ver- 

 million, at lengtb brownisb ; ostiola papillteform ; sporidia uni- 

 septate, frequently constricted, ratber pointed at eacb end, colour- 

 less. — Tul. Carp. iii. p. 80, t. 12, t. 13, /. 14-21. Curr. Linn. 

 Tmns. xxii. ^.49,/. 175, 176. Fr. S.M. i\. p. ^12. Tode.f. QS. 

 Fries, exs. no. 184. Moug. exs. no. 570. Baxt. exs. no. 26. Coohe 

 exs.no. 260. Eng. Fl. v. p. 252. Sj^h. fragiformis, Sow. t. 256. 

 Cucurhitaria cinnabarina, Grev. 1. 135. 



On dead twigs. Winter and Spring. Common. 



[United States.] 



Sporidia (•0004.-0006 in.) ■01--015 m.m. (Fig. 374.) 



2347. Nectria punicea. Schni. " Light-red Nectria." 



Caespitose, erumpent, ligbt red ; clusters subrotund ; peri- 

 tbecia globose, even, at lengtb collapsing and concave ; sporidia 

 uniseptate, attenuated towards eacb end, scarcely constricted, 

 byaline. — Tul. Carp. iii. p. 82. Rahh. F.E. no. 634. FcU. exs. no, 

 984. Cooke exs. no. 370. Sphceria punicea ^ Kze. Myc. H. i.p. 61. 



On twigs of Rhamnus frangula. 



