104 



N. squamulosa, Ell. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club IX, p. 20. 



Gregarious, minute (75-100 fi), pale, ovate-globose, covered, except 

 the brownish, obtuse, slightly prominent ostiolum, with a light colored, 

 squamulose coat. Asci lanceolate, narrowed and subtruncate above, 

 25-30 X 5-6 ,«, containing eight clavate or cylindric-oblong, biseriate 

 sporidia, 5-6 x 1^-1 1 [x, 2-nucleate at first and probably becoming 

 uniseptate. 



On decaying wood of a fallen limb, Newfield, N. J. 



N. Galii, Plow. & Hark. Trans. Cal. Acad. Sci. 1884, p. 26. 



Perithccia scattered, immersed, then erumpent, obtuse, pale red. 

 Asci cylindrical, very delicate, 60 x 5-8 [i. Sporidia eight, uniseriate, 

 uniseptate, pale straw-color, oblong-oval, with bluntly pointed ends, 



10X5 ;U. 



On Galium trifolium, California (Harkness). 

 N. Peponum, B. & C. Ore v. IV, p. 16. 



Nectria perpusilla, B. & C. Rav. Fung. Car. IV, No. 51. 



Very small, scattered, scarlet. Sporidia oblong, uniseptate. It 

 looks at first sight as if seated on a smooth, white mycelium, but this is 

 only the external coat of the gourd. Vai. avrelia (1. c), having spo- 

 ridia continuous, is probably only the immature state of the same thing. 



On dead gourds and on tomato. So. Carolina (Ravenel). 



We add the following from an examination of the specimen in 

 Ravenel 's Fung. Car., above quoted. Perithecia depressed-globose, 

 100-120 fi diam., ostiolum broad, papillate. Asci clavate-cylindrical, 

 35—40x5-6 fi. Sporidia not well matured, but apparently about 

 10x3i//. 



N. conigena, E. & E. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club X, p. 77. 



Minute, membranaceous, smooth, orange-yellow, lighter and col- 

 lapsing when dry. Asci about 50 x 7 fi. Sporidia uniseriate or par- 

 tially biseriate above, acutely elliptical, 2-nucleate, becoming unisep- 

 tate, 7-8 x 3-3| ^. Ostiolum papilliform, minute. Perithecia with a 

 few weak, white, radiating hairs at the base. Differs from N. vulpina, 

 Cke., in its habitat, smaller and paler perithecia and rather narrower 

 and more acute sporidia. 



On an old decaying cone of Magnolia glauca, Newfield, N. J. 



N. filicina, Cke. & Hark. Grev. XII, p. 101. 

 " Scattered or gregarious, orange-colored. Perithecia obovate, 

 smooth, glabrous, subshining, scarcely papillate. Asci cylindrical, 



