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nectria, and states that it is only known from the type locality, 
South Carolina. He cites Ravenel, Fungi Car. Exsicc., No. 55. 
It is evident that this refers not to Nectria diploa but to the 
Carolina species which Berkeley confused with it. 
Nectria diploa has been collected in Ceylon on two occasions— 
on Fiorinia rubrolineata on Murraya exotica, Peradeniya, and 
on Lepidosaphes sp. on an undetermined plant, Kandy. I have 
also a specimen of Pseudomicrocera on Fiorinia fioriniae on 
Camellia from Mauritius, which bears immature perithecia, 
apparently of this species. 
The perithecia are situated on the old conidial stroma 
(Plate III, fig. 13), which forms a narrow, compact, pink border 
round the scale, with a narrow, white, byssoid margin, or some- 
times a broader, scarious margin. In the available specimens, 
effete Pseudomicrocera sporodochia, either horizontal or oblique, 
are present. The perithecia are scattered, or clustered in groups 
up to six; they are globose or slightly ovoid, up to 0-4 mm. 
diameter, bright red, with a darker red ostiolum. In old her- 
barium specimens, the perithecia become orange-red or orange- 
yellow. They bear a few large warts, up to 0-1 mm. high, which 
are sometimes confluent and form a continuous crust except 
round the ostiolum. These warts are composed of oval, or 
globose, rather thick-walled cells, 7-13 x 7-12 u. The asci are 
clavate, sessile, either four-spored, 64-68 x 12 p, or eight-spored, 
g6-116 x 10-14 p, both being found in the same specimen. The 
ascospores (Plate V, fig. 22) are pale yellow, at first pluri- 
guttulate, then one-septate, not constricted, ends obtuse, el- 
liptic, narrow-oval, or subcymbiform, 16-32 x 6-9 ». Berkeley’s 
measurement of the ascospore was 25-30 X Qu. 
This species was described by Spegazzini as Nectria coccorum 
in Fungi Guaranitici, Pugillus 1, No. 234, and as Nectria cocco- 
gena in Fungi Puiggariani, No. 289. Prof. Spegazzini has kindly 
submitted for examination his specimens of these and other 
coccid Nectriae. 
Nectria coccorum is represented in Herb. Spegazzini by the 
type, No. 3867, on fallen leaves of some Laurineae, Peribebuy, 
Brazil, July 1883, and No. 4046, Paraguay, November 1883. 
Both the specimens show a Pseudomicrocera conidial stage, 
with typical conidia, 60-78 x 4. The surface of the stroma 
in the type is rather more tomentose than in the Eastern forms, 
or in other American specimens but that may be due to the 
fact that the specimens occurred on fallen leaves. The peri- 
thecia are superficial on the stroma, either isolated or two or 
three together: they are about 0-2 mm. diameter, covered with 
warts composed of large cells, or pruinose, with a continuous 
layer of the same cells. 
