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previously occupied by the cabbages, at Newfield, N. J., also on sweet 

 potato stems, at Vineland, N. J., and on old cabbage stalks and stems 

 of Sechlum edule, Louisiana (Langlois). 



N. Apocyni, Pk. 26th Rep. N. Y. State Mns. p. 84. 



" Cespitose or scattered, dull red. Perithecia minute, pale ochra- 

 ceous and subglobose when moist, dull red, collapsed or latterly com- 

 pressed and rough, with minute, whitish scales when dry; ostiola 

 minute. Sporidia hiseriate, uniseptate, filiform, usually constricted in 

 the middle, nucleate, 16-20 ^ long." Specimens found at Newfield, 

 X. J., July, 1883, on dead stems of Andepias tuberosa, with Volutella 

 flexuosa, C. <t H, had asci about 35x7 /i, sporidia 12-18x3^-4/^, 

 constricted at the septum and nucleate. 



N. depallens, Oke. & Hark. Grev. XII, p. 82. 



Scattered or gregarious, superficial, brick-red, fading out. Peri- 

 thecia subglobose, smooth, bare, opake, 200-250 pi. Asci clavate, 

 8-spored. Sporidia lanceolate, subacute at each end, uniseptate, not 

 constricted, hyaline, 22-24 x4-4| /i. 



On stems of Lupinus, California (Harkness). 



N. Curtisii, Berk. Grev. IV, p. 46. 



"Minute, erumpent, scattered. Asci lanceolate. Sporidia ob- 

 long, curved, with four nuclei, 12x2 /i." . 

 On Zea, So. Carolina (Ravenel). 



N. episphseria (Tode). 



Spharia episphmria, Tode Fuug, Meckl. II, p. 21, 

 Sphcsria eryihrococcus , Ehr. Sylv. Ber. p. g. 

 Nectria epispharia. Fr. Summ. Veg, Scand. p. 388. 

 Exsicc. Rab. F. E. 262, 642. — Rehm Asc. 585. — Thum. M. U. 766. — Sydow M March. 352. 

 Rav. F. Am. 340.— Roum. F. Gall. 4655.— Ell. N. A. F. 469. 



Perithecia gregarious or scattered, superficial, subsphseroid, col- 

 lapsing and frequently subcompressed, soft, smooth, blood-red, about 

 180//diam., with a papilliform ostiolum. Asci cylindrical, 50-60 x 

 5-6 fj., 8-spored. Sporidia obliquely uniseriate, subellipsoid, rather un- 

 equally uniseptate, hyaline, slightly constricted, 7-10x4^5 fi. 



On various sphseriaceous fungi — Diatrype, Hypoxylon, Valsa, 

 etc., common. 



N. rnbefaciens, E. & E. Journ. Mycol. Ill, p. 116. 



Perithecia globose, 80 p. diam., smooth, or roughened with scat- 

 tered, rudimentary, gland-like hairs, subastomous, of fine cellular 

 texture, pallid at .fiist, becoming orange-red. Asci broad-clavate, 



