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Mycologia 



Spores fusiform or subfusiform. 



Perithecia red ; ascospores accompanied by 



smaller spore-like bodies. 5. S. balsamea. 



Perithecia yellowish to brownish ; spore- 

 like bodies absent. 6. S. Atkinsonii. 



i. Scoleconectria scolecospora (Bref.) 



? Nectria cylindrospora Sollm. Bot. Zeit. 22 : 265. 1864. 

 Ophionectria scolecospora Bref. Unters. Myk. 10: 178. 1891. 

 Chiloriectria Cucurbitula Ellis & Everh. N. Am. Pyrenom. 116. 

 1892. 



Perithecial clusters quite regular, rounded, composed of numer- 

 ous, densely cespitose perithecia ; individual perithecia dull red 

 at first slightly furfuraceous, becoming quite smooth, nearly 

 globose, finally collapsing becoming pezizoid ; asci clavate to cylin- 

 drical, 60-75 X 8-10 mic, filled with numerous spore-like bodies, 

 often obscuring the long cylindrical spores; spores usually more 

 or less curved, many-septate with the septa transverse or extend- 

 ing irregularly, delicate, 40-50 X 2 -5~3 m ic> 



On branches of different species of Pinus. 



Type locality: Germany. 



Distribution : New Jersey. 



Illustrations: Brefeld, Unters. Myk. 10: pi. 5, /. 45; Ellis 

 & Everh. N. Am. Pyrenom. pi. 12, f. 9-12; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. Fam. 

 i 1 : /. 241, D. 



Exsiccati : Ellis & Everh. N. Am. Fungi, 1551. 



Distinguished by the long cylindrical spores with the accom- 

 panying minute spore-like bodies. The species cannot be dis- 

 tinguished on gross characters. 



No type specimen of this species has been examined but the 

 description and illustration by Brefeld leave little doubt as to its 

 identity. The species has been confused with other species 

 occurring on the same habitat and with similar gross characters. 



2. Scoleconectria coccicola (Ellis & Everh.) 



Nectria coccicola Ellis & Everh. Jour. Myc. 2 : 39. 1886. 

 Dialonectria coccicola Ellis & Everh. Jour. Myc. 2 : 137. 1886. 

 Ophionectria coccicola Berl. & Yog.; Sacc. Syll. Add. 4: 218. 

 1886. 



