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N. ochroleiica, (Schvv.) 



SphcEyia ochroleuca, Schw. Syn. N. Am. No. 1418. 

 Nectria-ochroleuca, Berk, in Grev. IV, p. 16. 

 Exsicc. BU. N. A. F. 773, 



Stroma granulose-byssoid, subpulrinate and nearly white at first, 

 becoming firmer and yellowish. Perithecia 3-15 on a stroma, ovate- 

 globose, dull yellowish- white, mostly less than \ mm. diam., surface 

 densely furfuraceo-squamulose, except at the apex, around the rather 

 darker, slightly depressed, papilliform ostiolum, where the edge of the 

 squamulose coat forms a miniature crown or wrea.th, giving the apex 

 of the perithecium the appearance of the blossom end of an apple. 

 Asci clavate-cylindrical, 45-55 x 10-12 ix. Sporidia biseriate, oblong- 

 fasoid, uniseptate, 12-16 x4-5 p.. 



On limbs of various deciduous trees, Carolina and Pennsylvania 

 (Schweinitz), on dead limbs of Laurus Benzoin, West Chester, 

 Pa. (Everhart). 



N. rubickrpa, Cke. Grev. VII, p. 50., Journ. Myc. II, p. 79. 



Exsicc. Rehm Asc. 337.— Ell. N. A. F. 80.— Rav. F. Am. 341. 



" Cespitose, red, scarcely papillate, obtusely verrucose-roughened, 

 collapsing. Asci cylindrical, 65-75 x 6-7 fi. Sporidia uniseriate, ellip- 

 tical, uniseptate, 10-12x4M:| //, mostly not much constricted. Looks 

 like a miniature red raspberry, both in the clusters and individual 

 perithecia, the latter becoming eventually nearly even." 



On dead limbs of Gelseniiwni, South Carolina (Ravenel), on stems 

 of Ilex glabra, New Jersey (Ellis). 



The specimens in Rehm's Asc. and Ell. N. A. P. were erroneously 

 issued as N. punicea, Kze. & Schm. In our copy of Rav. F. Am. the 

 specimen (No. 341) has the perithecia distinctly collapsed. In his 

 diagnosis of his Ascomycetes, under No. 337, Dr. Rehm refers the 

 specimens of Nectria punicea, Kz. <fe Schm., in N. A. P. No. 80, to 

 N. rvhicarpa, Cke. We have carefully compared the N. A. F. speci- 

 mens with N. ruhicarpa in Rav. P. Am., and they seem to us to be 

 the same thing. Referring to -our exsiccati, we find in Plowright's 

 Sph. Brit. No. 206, a specimen labeled N. pvnicea, Kz. & Schm., in 

 which the perithecia are not collapsed and the sporidia 15-19 x4-5 //, 

 which are about the measurements given inSylloge. The specimen 

 oi N. punicea in Roumeguere's Pungi Gallic i, No. 1465, we can not 

 distinguish from N. cirmabarina, Pr. If Plowright's specimen is 

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

 most of the sporidia less than 12 ii long and the perithecia collapsed. 

 N. A. P. 772 can not be N. rubicarpa, but is more like a pale var. of 

 N. ditissima, Tul. 

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