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i6. Nectria peziza (Tode) Fries. 



Sphaeria peziza Tode, Fungi Meckl. Sel. 2:46. 



1 791. 

 Nectria peziza (Tode) Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 

 388. 1849. 

 Plants bright orange-red, soft, nearly globose, collapsing 

 from above so as to become cup-shaped and very closely resemb- 

 ling a cup-fungus. Rather common but usually not abundant 

 on old rotten wood and occasionally on bark. 



17. Nectria purpurea (Linn.) n. n. 



Tremella purpurea Linn. Sp. Plant., 2:1158. I753- 

 Tubercularia vulgaris Tode, Fungi Meckl., i :i8. 



1790. 

 Sphaeria cinnaharina Tode, Fungi Meckl., 2.9. 



1791. 

 Nectria cinnabarina (Tode) Fries, Summa Veg. 

 Scand., 388. 1849. 

 One of the most common and variable species of the order 

 Hypocreales. On branches of various kinds of trees and shrubs. 



18. Peronospora corydalis de Bary, Ann. Sci. Nat., IV, 



20:111. 1863. 

 Both Bicuculla caimdensis and B. cucullata were growing to- 

 gether in the ravine where this material was collected but care- 

 ful search failed to locate a single infected plant of the latter 

 species. 



19. Phyllosticta fraxinicola (Curr.) Sacc. Syll. Fung., 



3:21. 1884. 



Sphaeria (Depazea) fraxinicola Currey, Trans. 



Linn. Soc, 22 :333. 1857. 

 Phyllosticta fraxini Ellis & Martin, Am. Nat.. 



18:189. 1884. 

 Phyllosticta fraxinicola (Curr.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 

 3:21. 1884. 

 The infected spots are very variable in color, usually with a 

 pronounced reddish margin, but frequently grading imperceptably 

 into the healthy green portions of the leaf. All intermediate vari- 

 ations occur. 



20. Phyllosticta liriodendri Thiim., Tour. Sci. Math. 



Phys. Nat, 1878. 



Phyllosticta liriodendri Cooke, Grevillea, 12:26. 



Phyllosticta linodendrica Cooke ; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 



3 :30. 1884. 

 Phyllosticta circumvallata Winter, Jour. Myc, 



1:123. 1885. 



