784 SPH^EIACEI. 



II. Byssised^. 



2355. Nectria Albertini. B. 4- Br, ** Roseate Nectria." 



Perithecia gregarious, ovate, acute, papillate, rose coloured, 

 seated on a roseate tomentose subiculum; sporidia swollen in 

 the middle, fusiform, uniseriate. — Ann. N.H. no. 971, t. 17,/*. 

 24 a. Sphceria rosella, A. ^ S. t. 9,f. 3. Curr. Linn. Trans. 

 xxii. ^ 57,/. 3. 



On the ground, on sticks, leaves, &c. Near Bristol. 



[Mid. Carolina?] 



Differs most distinctly in the fruit from Nectria rosella, Fr. which is now 

 included under Hypomyces. 



III. ViLLOSiE. 



2356. Nectria flavida. Fr. " Yellow Nectria." 



Stroma floccose, delicate, yellow ; perithecia subglobose, 

 minute, orange, covered with thin yellow down ; ostiola naked, 

 rounded ; sporidia elongated, fusiform, curved. — Fr. Summ. V.S. 

 p. 388. Sph. flavida, Corda. iy. t. 8,/. 117. B. 4' Br. Aim. N.H. 

 no. 610. 



On decayed stumps. Leigh Wood, Bristol. 



2357. Nectria funicola. B. S^ Br. " Eope Nectria." 



Perithecia scattered, orange, ovate, attenuated upwards, 

 clothed with scattered, short, obtuse hairs ; asci clavate ; spori- 

 dia oblong-elliptic, triseptate. — B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 611. 



On decayed rope. Oct. King's Cliffe. 



Minute, scattered ; perithecia ovate, attenuated above, clothed with short 

 obtuse, colourless hairs ; orifice obtuse, without any distinct papilla ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidia oblong- elliptic when seen from the back, subcymbiform 

 when seen laterally ; the endochrome is more or less perfectly divided by 

 septa into four parts.— ^. <£■ Br- 



IV. Denudat^e. 



2358. Nectria peziza. Fr, " Cup-like Nectria." 



Gregarious, soft ; perithecia globose, even, sub-papillary, 

 orange-pink, concave when collapsed; sporidia broadly elliptic, 

 colourless, uniseptate. — Fr. S.V.S.p.2>^^. Berk. Outl. p.39S,t. 

 24,/. 6. Sph. Fezizce,Fr.S.M.n.p.4.b2. Tode.f. 122. Moug. 

 exs. no. 483. Fries, exs. no. 235. Sturm, t. 12. Fckl. exs. no. 982. 



