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Gerraany, France, Itely, England, Belgium, Austria and North America. 



Var gyconcphila. Cfr. Rabenh. Flora 1850 p. 632: 



ith rather pointed conidiaj epore maeeee shading into orange. 

 On the dried fruits of the fig in CaBfaicciola, southern Italy. 



Var. Candida ?7alk (sub Ooepora): ppore zaaeses white. In fruit 

 (tipple) rotting in the open in Thuringia. "10 thit veriety an early 

 form of the genus! - one will recall that Sporatrichum fructigenum 

 Link seems aio an undeveloped form. 1 * 



Bonilia cinerea Bon, minute tufts, ashy (colored) more or less 

 contacted; hyphee aehy (colored), branching, septate; conidia irregularly 

 ellipsoidal or more frequently lemon-shaped, 15-17 x 10-12 microns, from 

 achy to transparent, in long connected chains. 

 Hab. in rotting cherry fruit* in Germany and Italy. 



Monilia laxa (ffalk) SRCC. et Vogl., OoBpora laxa Walk. Oidium 

 laxum Shrenb. Acroeporiua l^jrum Pers. Fith conidia in chains, more or 

 less erect, branching divergently, thickly clustered, ashy (colored) 

 separating into single oval spores. 



Hab. in rotten fruit of the apricot in Oerajany (Ehrenberg) "Is this 

 Uonilia different from M. cinerea?" 



In general Saccardo's descriptions, with their names, agree with 

 the d-ecriptioa of the three fonoa alraady given. 



Woronin (6) in 1900 definitely establishe* t*o species of Sclerotinia, 

 which he call* Sclerotinia fructipana and- Sclerotinia cinerea. At that 

 time none of the apothecia of any of the fruit rot Monilias had been 

 found and described, but Woronin was so sure that the f orme he was 



