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Mycologia 



4. Sphaerostilbe coccophila (Desm.) Tul. Fung. Carp. 

 3: 105. 1865 



Microcera coccophila Desm. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 10: 359. 1848. 

 ? Nectria aurantiicola Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 117. 

 1875. 



? Nectria aglaeothele Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 4: 45. 1875. 

 Nectria subcoccinea Sacc. & Ellis, Michelia 2 : 570. 1882. 



Stroma consisting of a short, stout stalk with an orange head ; 

 conidia straight or more often curved, long, fusiform, 3-7- 

 septate, 50-90 X 5-6 mic, occasionally shorter ; perithecia more 

 or less cespitose, bright orange, with a prominent, rather acute 

 ostiolum ; asci cylindrical, 75 X 8-10 mic, 8-spored ; spores 

 i-seriate, elliptical or subelliptical, 12-18 X 7-9 mic. 



On dead scale insects on bark, etc. 



Type locality : France. 



Distribution : Florida to Alabama, Pennsylvania and the West 

 Indies. 



Illustrations : Fawcett, Bull. Fl. Agric. Exp. Sta. 94 : /. 2-3. 



Exsiccati : Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 1333; Ravenel, Fungi Car. 

 Exsicc. 57. Other specimens examined: Florida, Hume 39. 



The exsiccati cited are distributed under other names but 

 both show the characteristic conidia and perithecia of the above 

 species. Also both occur on scale insects. 



13. Megalonectria Speg. An. Soc. Ci. Argent. 12: 82. 1881 



Stroma consisting of a slender stalk with a globose head ; peri- 

 thecia globose or subglobose, bright colored, red or reddish, entire 

 or collapsing, borne in cespitose clusters on or surrounding the 

 base of the stroma ; asci clavate, 8-spored ; spores elliptical, many- 

 septate, becoming muriform, hyaline. 



Type species : Sphaeria pseudotrichia Schw. 



Distinguished from Sphaerostilbe by the muriform spores. 



1. Megalonectria pseudotrichia (Schw.) Speg. An. Soc. Ci. 



Argent. 12: 82. 1881 

 Sphaeria pseudotrichia Schw. ; Berk. & Curtis, Jour. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Phil. II. 2: 289. 1853. 

 Nectria pseudotrichia Berk. & Curt. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 



II. 2: 289. 1853. 



