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straight with falcate tips, up to nine-septate with well-defined 
septa. 
Prot. C. Spegazzini has kindly forwarded me specimens of 
this species, on a scale insect on pine needles (locality?) January 
20, 1916, and La Plata, May 19g, 1919, under the Mss. name, 
Nectria coccicida. In these the synnemata may be clavate, up 
to o-6mm. high, 0-12 mm. diameter at the base, 0-25 mm. 
diameter above (Plate III, fig. 8), but the majority are conoid, 
up to 0-5 mm. high, 0-3 mm. diameter, or flattened pulvinate, 
up to 0-4 mm. long, 0-2 mm. broad, and 0:25 mm. high; they 
are situated on, or at the side of, the scale, and usually arise 
from a well-developed stroma; the conidia are straight, or 
straight with falcate tips, or uniformly curved, pale yellow under 
a low magnification, hyaline when more highly magnified, up 
to nine-septate, ends obtuse, 80-88 x 6-7. The asci measure 
gO-II0 x 9-10 p, and the ascospores, 13-17 x 6-8 p. 
Microcera coccophila Desm., “‘ No. 1350, Plantes Cryptogames 
de France, Ed. 1, Ser. 1, 1836—51,’’ specimen in Herb. B.M., 
has synnemata flattened pulvinate or discoid, with a rather 
broad whitish margin, up to 0-6 mm. diameter, or conical, up 
to 0-6 mm. high, 0-3 mm. diameter below, or clavate, with erect 
fascicles of hyphae at the base; the sheath divides above into 
separate hyphae; the conidia are scanty, 50-80 x 5—6 py, almost 
straight, fusoid, with obscure septa up to nine. This specimen 
also bears clustered perithecia on a well-developed stroma; the 
developing perithecia are orange, covered with fascicles of 
hyphae from the stroma; the mature perithecia are red; the 
ascospores are 12-18 x 5-7. 
Both Herb. B.M. and Herb. Kew have Microcera coccophila 
Desm., “No. 1750, Plantes Cryptogames de France, Ed. 1, 
Ser. 1, 1825-51”; this has some of the synnemata cylindric, up 
to 0-7 mm. high, 0-2 mm. diameter. 
Conidial specimens from Penzance, the type locality of 
Atractium flammeum Berk. and Rav., when collected in later 
years, were referred correctly to Microcera coccophila Desm. 
In Herb. B.M., there are specimens ex Herb. Broome, Microcera 
coccophila Desm. (1) Trengwainton, Penzance, 14 Dec. 1869; 
(2) nr. Penzance, Dec. 1869; (3) Trengwainton, 4 Dec. 1869, 
marked “‘early stage of Nectria Ralfsii?.’’ It is not related to 
Nectria Ralfsi1. Specimen 1 shows the developing perithecia of 
Sphaerostilbe flammea. Herb. B.M. also has Cooke 350 and 534, 
and duplicates from Herb. Cooke. 
Herb. Kew has, under Microcera coccophila Desm., a specimen 
ex Herb. Berkeley, marked “‘ Penzance, C.E.B., Dec. 1869,’’ con- 
taining minute synnemata on a well-developed stroma; Cooke, 
Fungi Brit. Exsicc., No. 350 (two examples); Cooke, Fungi 
