Studies in Entomogenous Fungi. T. Petch. 12I 
In 1882, Saccardo and Ellis (Michelia, 11, p. 570) described 
this species as Nectria subcoccinea Sacc. and Ellis. Specimens 
were distributed by Ellis in North American Fungi, No. 1333, 
on bark of living alder, West Chester, Pa., October 1881, 
Everhart and Haines. In Ellis, 1333 in Herb. Kew and Herb. 
B.M., the perithecia are globose, clustered, with a minute conical 
ostiolum; the asci are 100-116 x 8p, cylindric, spores uni- 
seriate or obliquely uniseriate; ascospores 13-18 x 6-7 py; the 
synnemata are conical, 0°35 mm. high, 0-25 mm. diameter, 
clothed below with erect fascicles of hyphae, or pulvinate, 
0*5 x 0:25 mm.; the conidia are nearly straight, or curved at 
one end, up to six septate, 35-45 x 5-Om. This example has 
unusually short conidia. 
Ellis and Everhart, in North American Pyrenomycetes (1892), 
stated that Nectria subcoccinea Sacc. and Ellis was identical 
with the Ravenel specimens in Fungi Car. Exsicc., 1, No. 57, 
which Berkeley had assigned to Nectria muscivora, and they 
drew up their description of the latter species from the speci- 
mens, Ellis, North American Fungi, No. 1333, which had been 
issued as Nectria subcoccinea. They noted that neither Ravenel’s 
specimens nor Ellis 1333 showed anything of the white lanose 
patches mentioned in the original description of Nectria 
muscivora, but they nevertheless retained Berkeley’s identifica- 
tion. 
In Grevillea, Iv, p. 45 (1875), Berkeley described a Nectria 
as Nectria viticola B. and C. This, according to von Hohnel and 
Weese in Herb. Kew, is Nectria sanguinea. It is not on a scale 
insect. But Passerini, in 1875, found a Nectria on Vitis vinifera 
in Liguria, which he referred, in Pirotta, Fung. Vit. vu, p. 45, 
to Nectria viticola B. and C. He sent specimens to Kew, labelled 
“Nectria viticola B. and C., Grevillea, Dec. 1875, nisi abstent 
conidia fusiformia, Ropallo, Liguria, ad sarmenta viva vitis 
vinifera, Iunio 75, G. Passerini.’’ Cooke recognised that this 
was not the same as Berkeley and Curtis’s species, and de- 
scribed it in Grevillea, xu, p. 81, as Nectria Passeriniana Cke. 
The specimen in Herb. Kew is marked by von Hohnel and Weese, 
“ Nectriaviticola Pass. = Endothia (?) Passeriniana (Cooke) Weese. 
Hypocreopsis??.’’ This is a clustered Nectria with a well- 
developed stroma, covering a scale insect. Its ascospores are up 
to 18 x 8y. It has minute pulvinate synnemata and Microcera 
conidia. There is no doubt that this is Sphaerostilbe flammea. 
A specimen from E. W. Berger, on scale of oak (Chrysom- 
phalus obscurus), Florida, in Herb. British Museum, sent as 
Sphaerostilbe coccophila Tul., is Sphaerostilbe flammea. The 
ascospores are 13-18 x 7-8; the synnemata are flattened 
pulvinate; the conidia are 75-80 x 5-6, nearly straight, or 
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