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Comparatively small, not more 

 than 1 6 mic. long. 

 Perithecia vertically col- 

 lapsing, on Diatrypella. 

 Perithecia mostly entire, on 

 coniferous wood. 

 Comparatively large, 20-25 mic. 

 long. 



Perithecia pale rose-colored or some shade of 

 yellow or yellowish-white. 

 Perithecia in cespitose clusters on the stroma. 

 Spores 10-14 X 3~3-S m ic 



Conidial phase profuse on decaying 

 seeds. 



Conidial phase consisting of iso- 

 lated tubercular stromata. 

 Spores 12-14 X 5 mic. 

 Perithecia scattered over the surface of a 

 tubercular stroma. 



C. nipigonensis. 

 C. Cucurbitula. 

 C. diploa. 



12. C. seminicola. 



C. ochroleuca. 

 C. gramnicospora. 



15. C. tuberculariformis. 



i. Creonectria purpurea (L.) 

 Tremella purpurea L. Sp. PI. 2: 1158. 1753. 

 Sphaeria tremelloides Weigel. Obs. Bot. 46. 1772. 

 Tuber cularia vulgaris Tode, Fungi Meckl. 1 : 18. 1790. 

 Sphaeria cinnabarina Tode, Fungi Meckl. 2: 9. 1791. 

 Cucurbitaria cinnabarina Greville, Scot. Fl. Crypt. 3: 136. 1825. 

 Nectria cinnabarina Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 388. 1849. 

 Nectria Sambuci Ellis & Everh. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1890 : 

 246. 1 89 1. 



Nectria Meliae Earle, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 364. 1898. 

 Nectria Russellii Berk. & Broome, Grevillea 4: 45. 

 Nectria offuscata Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 4: 45. 

 Nectria nigrescens Cooke, Grevillea 7 : 50. 



Sphaeria dematiosa Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 205. 

 1832. 



Sphaeria Celastri Schw.; Fries, El. Fung. 2: 81. 1827. 

 Nectria purpurea (L.) Wilson & Seaver, Jour. Myc. 13: 51. 

 1907. 



Stroma erumpent, tubercular, at first pinkish or yellowish-red 

 becoming darker with age, often brownish and occasionally quite 

 black, 1-2 mm. in diameter and 1-2 mm. high; conidiophores 

 50-100 mic. long with short lateral branches on which the conidia 

 are borne ; conidia 4-6 X 2 mic, elliptical, hyaline ; perithecia 



