93 



On dead limbs of fthus, California (Harkness), Connecticut 

 (Thaxter), on dead ash, Canada (Dearness). 



Var. chrysogramma (Thyronectria chrysogramma, E. & E. in 

 Proc. Phil. Acad. 1. c. p. 245), on bark of dead elm limbs, Potsdam, 

 X. Y. (Ellis), Missouri (Demetrio), and Kansas (Kellerman), differs 

 from the type in its larger, brown sporidia, larger asci and more or 

 less scattered perithecia. 



ELEUTHEROMYCES, Fckl. 



Symb. p. 183. 



Perithecia superficial, gregarious, subulate, attenuated above from 

 an ovate-cylindrical base. Asci cylindrical, 8-spored. Sporidia ellip- 

 tical, with a bristle-like appendage at each end, hyaline. 



E. subulatus, (Tode.) 



Spheeria subulata, Tode. Fung. Meckl. II, p. 44. 

 Spheeronema subulatum, Fr. S. M. II, p. 536. 

 Eleutheromyces subulatus, Fckl. Symb. p. 183. 

 Exsicc. Rab. Herb. Myc. 662. id. F. E. 1334. 



(Plate 14) 



Perithecia mostly thickly gregarious, but sometimes scattered, 

 superficial, gradually attenuated upwards from the base. |-1^ mm. 

 high, yellowish, translucent, soft, becoming hard and brownish. Asci 

 cylindrical, with a stipe-like base, 8-spored, 48-52 x 2J-3 p.. Sporidia 

 uniseriate, elliptical, acute at the ends and prolonged into a bristle- 

 like appendage, hyaline, 4-6 x \\ ji. 



On dried up and decaying Agarics, Massachusetts and New York. 



NECTRIA, Fr. 



Summa Veg. Scand. p. 387. 



Perithecia free, cespitose, on a tuberculiform, carnose, conidial 

 stroma (Tubercularia), or scattered without any definite stroma, car- 

 nose-membranaceous, mostly bright colored, (red &c), smooth, sub- 

 villose, squamulose, &c. Asci cylindric-clavate, 8-spored, mostly with- 

 out paraphyses. Sporidia oblong or elliptical, hyaline, tmiseptate. 

 A. Perithecia cespitose. 



N. cinnabarina, (Tode.) 



Spheeria cinnabarina, Tode. Fung. Meckl. II, p. 9. 

 Spheeria decolorans, Pers. Syn. p. 49. 



Spheeria pezizoidea, a. rubrofusca, DC. Flor. Franc, tom. VI, p. 125. 

 Cucurbitaria cinnabarina, Grev. Scot. Crypt. Flor. tom. III. tab. CXXXV 

 Nectria cinnabarina, Fr. Sunim. Veg. Scand. p. 388. 

 Exsicc. Rab. Herb. Myc. 633. Rab. F. E- 324, 1631. Rehm Asc. 184, 282, 635. Thum F 

 Austr. 1050, 1052. M. March. 347, 348, 349- 



