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Mycologia 



i. Nectria Peziza (Tode) Fries, Summa 

 • Veg. Scand. 288. 1849 

 Sphaeria Peziza Tode, Fungi Meckl. 2: 46. 1791. 

 ? Peziza hydrophora Bull. Hist. Champ. 243. 1809. 

 Peziza (Dasyscypha) vulpina Cooke, Hedwigia 14: 82. 1875. 

 Dialonectria vulpina Cooke, Grevillea 12 : 83. 1883. 

 Nectria rimincola Cooke, Grevillea 11 : 108. 1883. 

 f Nectria lasioderma Ellis, Am. Nat. 17: 194. 1883. 

 Nectria Umbellulariae Plow. & Hark. Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci. 1 : 26. 

 1884. 



Nectria vulpina Ellis & Everh. N. Am. Pyrenom. 103. 1887. 

 Nectria betulina Rehm. Ann. Myc. 3: 519. 1905. 



Perithecia superficial, scattered, gregarious or occasionally 

 crowded, globose or subglobose, usually collapsing from the top 

 becoming pezizoid, at first clothed with a scant covering of deli- 

 cate, white mycelial threads (no true hairs) which disappear with 

 age leaving the perithecia smooth or in very old specimens slightly 

 rough and furfuraceous, 250-500 mic. in diameter (mostly 300), 

 varying in color from deep-orange to pale-yellow, color darker in 

 dried specimens but fading in weathered specimens; ostiolum 

 minute in young specimens, just visible and in older forms de- 

 pressed and inconspicuous; asci cylindrical or clavate, 8-spored, 

 50-75 X 5-6 mic. ; spores broadly elliptical, obliquely i-seriate or 

 crowded, becoming partially 2-seriate, thick-walled, i-septate, not 

 constricted, with 1 large, conspicuous oil-drop in each cell, 

 10-14 X 4-6 mic. (mostly 10 X 5 mic.) ; paraphyses short, 

 branched, not conspicuous (pi. 4. f. 3; pi. 5. /. 1). 



On decaying, decorticated wood; more rarely on bark, fungi 

 and old hemp cloth. 



Type locality : Mecklenburg, Germany. 



Distribution : New York to Ontario, North Dakota and 

 Louisiana. 



Illustrations: Tode, Fungi Meckl. 2: pi. 15. /. 122; Bulliard, 

 Herb. France, pi. 410. f. 2; Currey, Trans. Linn. Soc. 22. pi. 57. 

 /. 44; Berkeley, Outl. Brit. Fung. pi. 24. f. 6; Grevillea, Crypt. 

 Fl. 4. pi. 186. f. 2. 



Exsiccati: Ravenel, Fungi Am. Exsicc. 644; Ellis, N. Am. 

 Fungi 774; Wilson & Seaver, Ascom. & Lower Fungi, 16. Other 

 specimens examined: California, Harkness; Iowa, Arthur, 

 Seaver; Louisiana, Langlois; Maine, Harvey; New York, Atkin- 



