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on Tea, Taihoku, Sozan, May 1911. I have seen a leaf of that 
gathering, which bore one perithecium, not quite mature. It 
was subconoid, 0-15 mm. diameter, orange-red, slightly pruinose 
with yellow granules, seated on the scale without any evident 
stroma. No mature asci were found, but two loose ascospores 
were observed, measuring Io x3 » and 125 p respectively; Mi- 
yabe and Sawada state that the ascospores measure 8-I0 x 4-5 p. 
On the available specimens, the Japanese and Formosan 
forms would appear to be referable to Sphaerostilbe auranticola. 
In Herb. British Museum, there are the following specimens 
from Florida, communicated by E. W. Berger;—(1) on Asf1- 
diotus perniciosus, San José Scale, on Peach, all conidial; (2) on 
Chrysomphalus aonidium, Florida Red Scale of Citrus, on Citrus, 
two conidial specimens; (3) on Lepidosaphes becku, Purple Scale 
of Citrus, one specimen containing the conidial stage and 
scattered perithecia with ascospores 10-13 x 5-6. 
As pointed out under Sphaerostilbe coccophila, the specimens 
collected at Florence in 1860, which furnished the perithecial 
examples of that species are Sphaerostilbe aurantitcola. These 
are represented in British herbaria by the following. 
“No. 262, Rabenhorst, Fungi Europaei Exsicc., Ed. nov., 
Ser. secunda. Nectria episphaeria Tode. Ad Laurt corticem in 
horto Boboli Florentiae, Majo 1860, leg. L. Caldesi.’’ Specimens 
in Herb. Kew and Herb. B.M. The bark is densely covered with 
scale insects. The perithecia are usually scattered without 
evident stroma, sometimes clustered, orange-red becoming dark 
red, conoid, usually collapsing laterally; apex darker, conical, 
or papillate; asci 65-75 x 7; ascospores 9-14 x 4-5; peri- 
thecial wall red-brown by transmitted light. Small curved tri- 
septate spore rather common, 14-18 x 3-3'5p. Synnemata 
appear to be absent. 
“No. 269, Rabenhorst, Fungi Europaei Exsicc., Ed. nov., 
Ser. secunda. Microcera coccophila Desm. Florence, ad corticem 
Lauri in horto Boboli dicta, Majo 1860, leg. L. Caldesi.’’ Speci- 
mens in Herb. Kew and Herb. B.M. A poor development on scat- 
tered scale insects. Synnemata pulvinate; conidia 75-85 x 6p, 
few in comparison with the number of conidiophores; septa up 
to nine, but usually few and obscure. Perithecia immature, 
orange-red, subtranslucent, scattered or in small clusters, wall 
yellow when mounted. 
“No. 543, Erbar. Crittogam. Ital., Microceras coccophila Desm., 
Sull’ Alloro nel giardino di Boboli a Firenze, Aprile 1860, 
Caldesi.”’ Specimenin Herb. B.M. ; resembles Rabenhorst 262, and 
Erbar. Crittogam. Ital. 539; contains chiefly developing Nectria. 
Synnemata flattened pulvinate, circular, o-¢ mm. diameter, 
or clavate, 0-75 mm. high, 0-25 mm. diameter; conidia scanty, 
