﻿364 Earle : New or Noteworthy 



Alabama from the specimen on Cantlicrcllus aurantiacus collected 



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under that name. A recent examination of these specimens shows 

 that they were wrongly determined. They are evidently only a 



H. lactifli 



mon throughout this region 

 H. aurantius does howev< 



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Fine specimens 

 February 22, 



1 896, by Underwood & Earle. These agree perfectly with Thiim. 

 Myc. Univ. 1747 and with published descriptions. They are 



Diplocla 



Bon. 



Nectria episphaeria (Tode) Fr. 



This is a very abundant fungus in Alabama, occuring on va- 

 rious species of Nummularia, Valsa, Ditrypdla, etc. From its 

 abundance and the ease with which it adapts itself to different 

 hosts we should expect it to be variable in its characters. The 

 spores are described as unequally uniseptate and constricted. 

 Quite as often they will be found to be equally uniseptate and not 

 at all constricted, and in vigorous specimens it is not very unusual 

 to find spores that are 2- or even 3-septate. The perithecium too 



little 



while normally smooth and greatly collapsed, is sometimes 

 or not at all collapsed and covered with a thin tuft of delicate, 

 branching, anastomosing, appressed, orange-red hairs. Thesi 

 are about 3 p in diameter and an occasional free end projects 8-1 2 /* 

 beyond the perithecium. It is possible that the examination of a 

 sufficiently large series of specimens would show that more than 

 one species is confused under this name, but from present obser- 

 vations the characters tend to merge into each other so that it is 

 impossible to separate the forms. 



Nectria (Euxectria) Meliae sp. nov. 



Cespitose, 3 or 4 to 12 or 16 on a prominent dark brown or 

 blackish stroma .5-1 mm. in diameter by .5 mm. high : perithelia 

 300-400 u, dingy red, becoming dark brown with age, usual } 

 collapsing, surface marked with blunt subconic tubercles, not hairy- 

 asci about 70-80 x 8-10/i : sporidia monostichous, slightly yellow- 

 ish, ends subacute, 16-18 x 4-6 /i: conidia abundant on the youn, 



stroma, about 6 x 1 j", little or not at all curved. 



