97 



^'. (M'lii'oleiua, (Srliw.) 



Spliirmt irhiii/riiiii. Schw. S>Mi. N. Am. No i,}!"' 

 .\i'i/iiii oditolnna, llL-rk, in Circv. IV. p. if> 

 Hxsicc Ull. N. A. K. 773 



Str<»iim iri'iimilDSf-liyssnid, siiliitiilviiiiitc niid in'iiiiy white iit fnvt, 

 ticcoiiiiiit:: lii'iiif'i- iiiid yrllowisli. IN'i'itlicciii .'{-1 .') on n stroiiiii, ovate- 

 nldliose. (lull \ellu\\isli-\vliite, iiMtstly less tliaii \ iiiiii. diaiii., siiiliu'e 

 densely t'lirriiraceo-siiuaumlose. exeejit at tlio ajK'x, aroinid the rather 

 darker, sliirhtly depressed, ))ajiillir<»i-ii) (istioluni, where the ed«re j^I' the 

 H|iiaiiiuh)se ( oat I'oiiiis a miniature crown or wreath, ^ivin<i' tlio apex 

 <»r the ])eritlieeiiMii the apjiearance of the Idossoin end of an ajiple. 

 Asei clavate-eylindrieal, 4.')-.').") x 1(>-1'J //. Sporidia hiseriate. olilonjf- 

 I'usoid, \nMsej)tate. 1*2-1 ('» x 4— f) ii. 



On lindis ol' various deeiduous trees. Cai'olina and Pennsylvania 

 (Soliweinit/,). <>ii dead limlis of Lauiits Benzoin, West Chester, 

 l»a. (Kverhart). 



X. rnhi('hi'|).i, Tke. (Irov. VII, p. 50., Journ. ^lye. 11, p. 79. 



Kxsicc. Relim Asc. 337.— Kll. N. A. F. So.— Knv. F. Am. 341. 



" Cespitose, red. scarcely ]ta)>illate, olitusely vei'i-ueose-ionfrhencd. 

 collajisinjr. Asci cylindrical, r»")-7 ")X 0-7 //. ."^poi-idia uniseiiat*', ollii»- 

 tical, unise))tate. l()-12x4-4i ii, mostly not much constricted. Looks 

 like a miniatuie red raspheri-y. l»oth in the clusters and individual 

 jiorithecia, the latter Itecominjr eventually nearly even.'' 



On dead limlis of CfAwi/zj //////, South Carolina (Havenel),oii stems 

 of Ilex [jhihrti, New di'rsey (Ellis). 



The speciuKMis in Itehm's Asc. and Ell. N. A. F. wei^' erroneously 

 issued as N. ])ini/rerf, Kze. A' Schm. In our cojiy of Rav. F. Am. tlie 

 s]K'cimen (\o. o41 ) has the perithecia distinctly cr)lla](sed. In his 

 diagnosis ol" his Ascoiiiycetcs, undei' Xo. 837, Dr. Rohm I'cfbi's the 

 specimens of Nectria ))iinir('(i, Ivz. A' Schm., in N. A. F. No. SO, to 

 K. nib/riirpif, Cke. We have carefully comjiai-ed the N. A. F. sjieci- 

 niens with ^V. riihicdi'jtu in Rav. F. Am., and they seem to u« to lie 

 the sajne thinu'. Referrinji' to our oxsiccati, we find in Plowriuht's 

 S])h. Rrit. No. 200, a s]»eeimen lalieleil j\'. piai/'rcft. Ivz. A Schm., in 

 which the jieiithecia are n<it colla]ised and tho s];(iridia 15-1;) x4-') //. 

 which are about the measurements uivcn in Syll(<>e. The specimen 

 iA' N. puniceft in Rouniegiiere"s Funui (Jallivi. No. 14G5, we can not 

 distinuuish from iV". viniKihariiid. Yv. If Plowri<>lit's sjiecimen is 

 authentic, the N. A. F. specimens can hardly be that species, having 

 most of the sporidia less than 12 /i long and tho jieiithecia collajised. 

 N. A. F. 772 can not be X. nilncorpa. but is more like a ]iale var. of 

 K. ih'titislina, Tul. 

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