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mens collected by Ralfs at Penzance on living willows. These 
were described by Berkeley in 1854 as Atractium flammeum 
Berk. and Rav.*, the fungus having been found in similar 
situations, peeping up from beneath lichens, by Ravenel in 
South Carolina. Berkeley noted that Ravenel suspected it to 
be the state of some Nectria, and the herbarium specimens 
show that Ravenel had suggested that it was a stage of Nectria 
muscivora B. and Br. 
Nectria muscivora was described by Berkeley and Broomeft 
in 1851. It was parasitic on mosses at Kings Cliffe. To the 
description they added the note that they had the species from 
South Carolina on Jungermannia. There is an abundance of 
American specimens from Ravenel available in Herb. B.M. and 
Herb. Kew, under Nectria muscivora, and also others of the 
same species, either conidial, or conidial and perithecial, under 
Atractium flammeum, Sphaerostilbe flammea, and Mzucrocera 
coccophila, identified by Berkeley or Ravenel. 
Berkeley sent specimens of Atractium flammeum to the 
Tulasnes, and these proved to bear Nectria perithecia. Conse- 
quently the Tulasnes described it, first under the name Stilbum 
flammeum}i, and later as Sphaerostilbe flammea§. According to 
the Tulasnes, the specimens sent to them were American, though 
they stated that they grew on willow, which was the English 
host plant. Here we have another case in which the type locality 
for the conidial stage is in one country and the type locality 
for the perithecial stage in another. 
This species was described again as Nectria laeticolor by 
Berkeley and Curtis in 1868 ||; as Nectria aglaothele by the same 
authors in 18759], as Nectria subcoccinea by Saccardo and Ellis 
in 1882**, and as Nectria Passeriniana by Cooke in 18847. 
Ellis and Everhart discovered that Nectria subcoccinea was 
the same as Ravenel’s specimens which had been attributed to 
Nectria musciwwora, and they drew up their description of the 
latter species from specimens which had been distributed by 
Ellis as Nectria subcoccineatt. But they did not see Berkeley 
and Broome’s type of Nectria muscivora, and consequently were 
unaware that the original determination of Ravenel’s specimens 
as Nectria muscivora was incorrect. That leaves Sphaerostilbe 
flammea as the earliest name for Ravenel’s species, which is 
* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, x11 (1854), p. 461. 
+ Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 11, vit (1851), p. 188. 
{ Acta Hebdom. Acad. Sci. par. xLu, p. 704, and Ann. Sci. Nat., Ser. 4, 
Vv (1856), p. 114. 
§ Selecta Fung. Carp. 1, p. 130; 111, p. 104. 
|| Journ. Linn. Soc. x, p. 377 (1868). 4 Grevillea, Iv (1875), p. 45. 
** Michelia, 11 (1882), p. 570. tt Grevillea, x11 (1884), p. 81. 
tf North American Pyrenomycetes (1892). 
