I04 THE WEST VIRGINIA FLORA 



C. cocciNEA (Pers.) Seaver. (Nectria coccinea Fr., ditissima 

 Tul.). 



On bark of dead Magnolia Fraseri, March, 1894. Asci 

 65 X 7.5 IX. Spores 10 to 15 x 3.5 to 6 /u {Nuttall, 1472, 451). 



On dead and fallen Robinia Pseudacacia, on Magnolia 

 Fraseri, Oct. 17, 1893 (Nuttall, 1115, 162). 



NECTRIA Fries. 

 N. Peziza (Tode) Fries. (N. vulpina E. & E.). 



On bark of dead Ulmiis puhescens? Oct. 17, 1894. Spores 

 10 X 5 ft i-septate, 2-guttulate {Nuttall, 1216, 164). 

 N. EPispHAERiA (Tod.) Fr. 



On dead fallen twigs, Aug. 15, 1893 {Nuttall, 1175, 143). 

 On Fagus, Monongalia: near Morgantown {Sheldon). 



APONECTRIA Sacc. 

 A. iNAURATA (B. & Br.) Sacc. 



On Rhus copalliua. Mar. 24, 1894 {Nuttall, 1431). Micro- 

 spores 3 X I /i. Spores 10 to 12.5 x 3 /i. 



HYPOCREA Fr. 

 U. LENTA (Tode) Berk. & Br. {H. Schweinitsii Sacc). 



On an Oak log. Boone: near Lick Run (Sheldon). 

 H. PATELLA Cooke & Peck. 



On dead wood, Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall, 75). 

 H. ViRGiNiENSis E. & E. Proc. Phila. Acad., 442 (1893). 



Type habitat : On leaves of Rhododendron m.a.rimum, 

 Aug. 12, 1893 (Nuttall, discov. 1163). 



Epiphyllous, stroma carnose, scattered, sub-hemispherical 

 or depressed-turbinate, i to 2 mm. diameter, of a yellowish 

 gray color, subtruncate above and obscurely margined 

 (when mature). Perithecia buried in the stroma, ovate, 

 membranaceous, no to 150 /j. diameter. Ostiola hemis- 

 pherical, prominent, black, broadly perforated and some- 

 times collapsed. Asci clavate-cylindrical, p. sp. 40 to 45 x 7 

 to 8 ft, short-stipitate, filiform-paraphysate, 8-spored. Spori- 

 dia biseriate, oblong-fusoid, yellowish-hyaline, uniseptate, 

 slightly constricted at the septum, obtusely pointed at the 

 ends, 10 to 12 X 3 to 3.5 /j.. 



H. viridans B. & C. seems to differ in its hidden ostiola 

 (ostiolis latitantibus). 



This species is said by Seaver to be a discomycete. 

 H. tenerrima E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 442 (1893). 



Type habitat : Incrusting moss, leaves, twigs, living 

 Gaultheria procwmbens, etc. July, 1893 (Nuttall, discov. 

 1138, 123). 



