93 



On dead limbs of Rhns, 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, 

 N. 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, gi'egarious, 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. snbulktus, (Tode.) (Plate 14) 



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

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

 Eleutheromyces subulatus, Fckl. Symb. p. 183. 

 Exsicc. Rab. Herb. Myc. 662.— id. F. E. I33+. 



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 2i-3 _;/. Sporidia 

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

 like appendage, hyaline, 4^6 x IJ /i. 



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



NECTRIA, Fr. 



Sumtna 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, uniseptate. 

 A. Perithecia cespitose. 



N. cinnabarina, (Tode.) 



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

 Sphizria decolorans, Pers. Syn. p. 49. 



Sphmria pezizoidea, u. rubrofusca, DC. Flor. Franc, torn. VI, p. 125. 

 Cucurbitaria cinnabarina, Grev. Scot. Crypt. Flor. torn. Ill, tab. CXXXV. 

 Nectria cinnabarina, Fr. Summ, 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. 



