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glabrous, slightly rugose, opaque, globose, 0-3 mm. diameter, 
usually collapsing centrally ; ostiolum minute, conical, or scarcely 
evident ; asci cylindric, scarcely pedicellate, eight-spored, spores 
obliquely uniseriate, go-116 x 8-10; paraphyses diffluent; 
ascospores elliptic, obtuse, one-septate, not constricted, hyaline, 
or yellowish, minutely warted, 12-19 x 5-8 p. 
Synnemata arising from a white or pinkish stroma round the 
scale, stilboid up to 2-5 mm. high, more usually clavate or 
conical, up to 0-6 mm. high, 0-25 mm. diameter, or flattened 
pulvinate, up to 0-75 mm. long, 0-5 mm. broad, orange red to 
blood red, usually clothed with erect fascicles of hyphae at the 
base; conidia fusiform, straight, or straight with falcate tips, 
or slightly curved, up to eleven-septate, but usually with few, 
irregularly spaced, and obscure septa, hyaline, 50-105 x 5-7, 
sometimes only 35 long. A small strongly curved Fusarium 
conidium, three-septate, obtuse, hyaline, 18 x 4pm, is some- 
times present. 
Distribution. United States (Pennsylvania; Massachusetts; 
South Carolina; Georgia; Louisiana; Texas; Florida); Cuba; 
Brazil; Argentina; France; England; Italy; ? South Africa; 
? New Zealand; ? Australia. 
Sphaerostilbe coccidophthora (Zimm.) Petch, Ann. Perad., v1, 
p. 131 (1920); Nectria coccidophthora Zimm., Centralb. f. Bakt., 
Abt. 11, vu, p. 873 (1901). 
Conidial stage—Microcera coccidophthora Petch. 
Perithecia scattered or clustered, sometimes on a narrow 
floccose stroma, orange red becoming blood red, darker round 
the ostiolum, subtranslucent, covered with yellow or yellowish 
red granules, subglobose or subconoid, collapsing laterally; 
ostiolum usually papillate; asci cylindrico-clavate, shortly pedi- 
cellate, eight-spored, spores obliquely uniseriate, 84-136 x 
8-10 4; paraphyses linear, diffluent; ascospores oval or broadly 
oval, obtuse, hyaline to yellowish, one-septate, not constricted, 
wall thick and minutely warted, 13-22 x 7-9 p. 
Synnemata arising from a narrow yellowish white, loose, 
floccose stroma round the scale, clavate, up to I-4 mm. high, 
0-25 mm. diameter below, 0-3 mm. diameter above, or subsessile, 
ovoid or conical, up to 0-4mm. high, 0:25 mm. diameter, 
orange red to blood red, pale towards the base, subtranslucent 
when fresh, becoming hard and horny when dry; conidia cylin- 
dric, tapering at the ends, almost straight, tips falcate, hyaline, 
up to eleven-septate, usually with large numbers of aseptate 
conidia, 62-106 x 6-7 p. 
Distribution. Ceylon; India; Java; Seychelles. 
