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JOUIi^"AL OF MYCOLOGY. 
[VOL. II, 
87. Nectria Cory'li, Fckl. 
Penthecia c86spitose, erampent, smooth, sobastomoas, dark red, 
collapsing when dry, not diltering in appearance from those of 
the preceding species, unless in being of a deeper shade of red; 
asci clavate, 75—100 x 10—12 mostly filled with minute sporidia, 
exactly as in the preceding species, but some contain cylindric-fusoid 
(sporidia) V 1-septate, 10—15 x 2i—3 /^, with a short, curved apiculus at 
each end. These fusoid sporidia, lying in two or three series in the asci, 
are so arranged with their contiguous ends in contact as to resemble, 
closely, the cylindrical bodies mentioned in the preceding species and, like 
those, are often seen filled, more or less completely, with the minute, 
oblong sporidia. This species is found exclusively on bark and limbs of 
deciduous trees. According to Dr. Eehm, the specimens in N. A. F., 
159, belong here. We are inclined to think that iV. Coryli, FckL, is only 
a form or var. of N. cucurMtula^ Curr., which is restricted in its habitat 
to coniferous trees as JSf. Coryli is to deciduous trees. There are three 
Nectrias with the specific name cucurhitula, of which the one already de¬ 
scribed is now recognized by mycologists as N. cucurbitida, Curr., while 
another species (on conifers) with oblong biconoid, l-septate sporidia is 
known as N. cuciirhitula, Tode., and still another, with oblong-fusoid, 
5_6-septate sporidia, is known as Neciria [Calonectiia) cucurbitula, Fr. 
We are not aware that these last two species have yet been found in this 
country. 
88. Nectria tnaurata, B. & Br.—We have seen no American spec¬ 
imens of this species, and copy the following description from Cooke’s 
Hand-book: 
“• Csespitose; perithecia globose, then depressed, at length brown, 
tinged with red, frosted with yellow ; ostiola papilliform, at length im¬ 
pressed, naked, black-brown ; asci and sporidia of two kinds—some clav¬ 
ate, with numerous small, curved sporidia, others cylindrical, with eight 
elliptical sporidia, appendiculate at each end. The larger asci are clav¬ 
ate, containing curved, minute sporidia, not exceeding Si y. The 
smaller cylindrical asci contain eight elliptical, l-septate sporidia, 
12i—15 y long, furnished with a delicate, hyaline appendage at each end.” 
It is to be noted that the above-quoted description of the fruit ap¬ 
plies well to that of N. Coi'ijU, Fckl., and the specimens of N. inaurata, 
in Saccardo’s Mycotheca Yeneta, No. 1446 (which are the only ones we 
have examined), do not differ, as far as we can see, either in the perithe¬ 
cia or the fructification, from the specimens in N. A. F., 159, which (see 
Dr. llehm) are N. Coryli, Fckl. 
B. Sporidia uniseptate; asci S-spored. 
89. Nectria cinnararina, Tode. 
Stroma ( Tubercularia vulgaris, Tode,) pulvinate, subhemispheric, 
subcarnose, yellowish, conidiiferous; perithecia cmspitose, verrnilion- 
red, at length darker, rough, with a papilliform ostiolum ; asci clavate- 
