HypocfeacGce, Hyalodiilyrase, Nectria. 199 



tis, non constrictis, loculis primo granulosis, dein grosse 1-guttu- 

 latis, episporio longitudinaliter tenuissimc densiusculequo striato. 



llab. ad corticem arborum dejectarum putrescentium in silvis 

 prope Paraguari Bras. 



■•■•2. Nectria atrofusca (Schw.) Ell. et Ev. in Journ. of Myc. 1885, ^^^7 

 pag. 140. Spluvria atrofusca Schw. Svn. N. An. n. 1420. Sacc. 

 Syll. II, p. 391. — Perithecia in stroma tuberculiforme, ly^mm. 

 latura, ligaum facile relinquens dense stipata, 21-40, in quoquo 

 stromate, minuta, '/, ram. diara., depressa, conica, nigra, ostiolo 

 subconico, expolito, sursum radiato-sulcato excepto indeque rugo- 

 sa; ascis circiter 75:^16, oblongo-cylindraceia ; sporidia hyalina 

 vel subhyalina, maturitate dilute luteola, oblongo-ellipsoidea vel 

 sa^pe una extremitate acutiora, 1-septata, vix constricta, 10-12 ^; 

 4,5-5, utrinque obtusa. 



*o. Nectria Rousseauana Sacc. et Roum. in Rev. Myc. 1883, t. 41, 7172 

 fig. 19. — Peritheciis in c;espituIos discoideos, 2 mra. latos collo- 

 clis, stromate flavido suffultis, globoso-depressis, Yg-Yo mm. diani., 

 levibus, rubescentibus, dein fusco-Iateritiis, collabascendo umbilica- 



to-cupulatis, ostiolo brevi, obscuriore; ascis jam resorptis; spo- 



ridiis tereti-fusoideis, utrinque obtusiusculis, medio 1-septatis, vix 

 constrictis, 20-24 =; 5,5-6, hyalinis. 



Hab. in caule putri Brassica) oleracecu in Belgio. — A 

 N. punicea, cui affinis, sporidiis longioribus matriceque niox di- 

 gnoscitur. 



*10. Nectria hypocreoides Berk. et Cooke in Grevillea XII, p. 81. 717.3 

 — CiiDspitosa, erumpens, pallida; peritheciis subglobosis, mox con- 

 fluentibus, 25 mm. diam. in stroma tuberculoide densissime conge- 

 stis, furfure flavo-pallescente conspersis; ostiolis nudis, obscurio- 

 ribus; ascis cyliudraceis, octosporis; sporidiis ellipticis, hyalinis, 

 ondochromate bipartito, nec vere uniseptatis, 12 ^; 4. 



llab. in corticibus, Bombay in Africa (H. J. Cartkr). 



'•11. Nectria collabens Berk. et Cooke in Grev. XII, p. 81. — Cav 7,7, 

 spiiosa, erumpens, mellina; peritheciis in stroma tuberculoido, 

 congestis, subglobosis dein coUabascentibus difformibusqne, glabris, 

 tenuissimis, 2 mm. diam.; ascis cylindraceis, octosporis; sporidiis 

 late ellipticis, utrinque attenuatis, loculis subconicis, unisoptatis, 

 hyalinis, magnitudine valde variabilibus, 12-14, rarius 18 sG. 

 JTab. in corticibus, Rombay in Africa (11. J. Carteu). 



■'■12. Nectria alutacea Berk. et Cooke in Grevillea XII, pag. Si. — 717") 

 Ca\spitosa, orumpens, alutacea v. incai'nata; peritheciis \n stroma cl- 



