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Specimen in Herb. Kew, marked “99, Nectria muscivora, on 
mossy trees, Apr., H.W.R., Houston, Texas.” 
The following Ravenel collections were correctly assigned to 
Microcera coccophila. Specimens in Herb. Kew and Herb. B.M., 
“Ravenel 2527, Microcera coccophila Desm., on living Rhus, 
Darien, Ga.’’ Specimens in Herb. Kew and Herb. B.M., ex 
Herb. Ravenel, ‘‘ 3376, on exposed root of Water Oak, Darien, 
Ga., Nov. 81’’; these appear to be the same gathering as ‘‘ Ellis, 
N.A. Fungi, No. 1229, Microcera coccopila Desm., on bark of 
Quercus (2 palustris), Darien, Ga., H. W. Ravenel,” of which 
there is a specimen in Herb. B.M.; the sporodochia are pulvinate, 
oval or circular, up to 0-75 x 0-5 mm., sometimes confluent; 
conidia 75-80 x 5-6, obscurely septate;.a small curved Fu- 
sarium conidium, three septate, 18 x 4p, is present; some of 
these specimens bear clustered perithecia, with ascospores 
14-17 X 6-7. 
Sphaerostilbe flammea was described as Nectria laeticolor by 
Berkeley and Curtis in Journ. Linn. Soc., x. (1868), p. 377, on 
specimens from Cuba, “‘on trees among hepatics.’’ It is on a 
scale insect. Berkeley and Curtis cite the numbers 458, 542, 
555. Specimen 458 is missing in Herb. Kew: the sheet is marked 
by Berkeley, “immature.” 542 and 555 are Sphaerostilbe 
flammea, sometimes with perithecia on the synnemata. Speci- 
mens distributed as “765 Fungi Cubenses Wrightiani” are part 
of these gatherings. Necivia laeticolor is cited by Seaver as a 
synonym of Sphaerostilbe flammea. There is another Cuban 
specimen of Sphaerostilbe flammea among the unnamed Dubiae 
in Herb. Kew, apparently from Curtis. 
Berkeley and Curtis subsequently, in Grevillea, Iv, p. 45 
(1875), described the same species as Nectria aglaothele, stating 
that it grew on the remains of a coccus. The type specimen of 
Nectria aglaothele in Herb. Kewis marked by Berkeley, ‘‘Sprague, 
on Alder, New England, No. 5378”; its ascospores are 13-17 x 
6-8. There are apparently duplicates of this collection in 
Herb. B.M. ex Herb. Bloxam, and in Herb. Kew ex Herb. Cooke 
and Herb. Currey, all marked by Berkeley “ Nectria muscivora 
Berk., on alder, Mass.”’ It would seem that Berkeley had dis- 
covered, after distributing the duplicates, that the American 
specimens which he had assigned to Nectria muscivora had 
been incorrectly determined. 
In Grevillea, Iv, p. 47 (1875), Berkeley recorded “‘Sphaero- 
stilbe coccophila Tul.,on Alnus serratula, Pennsylvania, Michener, 
No. 4316." The specimen in Herb. Kew is marked ‘4316, 
Sphaerostilbe coccophila Tul., Atractium coccigena B. and C., on 
Alnus serratula, Penn., Michener.”’ It is Microcera coccophila 
Desm., the conidial stage of Sphaerostilbe flammea. 
