TilE NORTH AMERIC.VN IIYPOCREACE^E. 
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cylindrical, subattenuated above, 75—90 x 8—11 ; sporidia sub-biseriate, 
oblong, obtuse at each end, iiniseptate, straight or slightly carved, hya¬ 
line, 12—15 X 5—7 On limbs of various deciduous trees. Common. 
90. Nectiha Rtbts, Tode. 
Stroma and perithecia much the same as in the preceding species, 
except that the latter are rather smoother and the sporidia mostly 
longer, 13—20 x 4—0 p- (mostly about 10 x 4—44 /•'). VVe have examined 
the specimens in Vize’s Micro-fungi Britannici, 153, and in Plowright’s 
Spha3riacei Britannici, 211, and the slight differences indicated above are 
all we can see to separate this from N. cinnabarina. Specimens on 
gooseberry twigs sent from Canada by Prof. Macoun agree well with the 
English specimen, only the sporidia are rather narrower, mostly not 
over 4 or 44 /^-. Tl.e Canada specimens are the only ones we have seen 
collected here, and we do not see it mentioned by Berkeley in his Xortii 
Am. Fungi in Grevillea. 
91. Nectrta RUBiCAiiPA, Cke. Grev. VII, p. 50. 
Csespitose, red, scarcely papillate, obtusely verrucose-roughened ; 
asci cylindrical, 65—75 x 6—7 p -; sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, unisep- 
tate, 10—12 X 4—44 P, mostly not much constricted. Looks like a minia¬ 
ture red raspberry, both in the clusters and individual perithecia, the 
latter becoming eventually nearly even.” On dead limbs of Gelsemium. 
So. Carolina (Ravenel). In our copy of Rav. F. Am., the specimen (No. 
341) has the perithecia distinctly collapsed. In his diagnosis of his 
Ascomycetes, under No. 337, Dr. Rehm refers the specimens of Nectria 
puincea, Kz. & Schm., in N. A. F., No. 80, to N. rubicarpa, Ck. We 
have carefully compared the N. A. F. specimens wuth N. rubicarpa, 
in Rav. F. Am., and they seem to us to be the same thing. Referring to 
our exsiccati, w^e find in Plowright’s Sph. Brit., No. 206, a specimen 
labeled N. punicp.a^ Kz. & Schm., in which the perithecia are not collapsed 
and the sporidia 15—19 x 4—5 p^ which are about the measurements 
given in Sylloge. The specimen of N. piinicea in Roumeguere’s Fungi 
Gallici, No., 1465, we can not distinguish from N. cinnabarina, Fr. If 
the specimen of N. punicea in Plowright’s Sph. Brit, is authentic, the N. 
A. F. specimens can hardly be that species, having most of the sporidia 
less than 12 P long, but the N. A. F. specimens agree better wuth the 
original description of N. punicea in their collapsed perithecia than do 
those in Sphieriacei Britannici. We have then, for the present, to leave 
the matter in doubt. The specimens in N. A. F., 772, do not appear to 
be N. rubicarpa, Cke. 
92. Nectria coccinea, Pers. 
Perithecia csespitose, ovoid, smooth, bright red, papilliform, about 
one llfth millim. in diam.. usually not collapsing, seated on a yellowish, 
slightly erumpent stroma, which is often nearly obsolete ; asci subcylin- 
drical, 80—95 x 6—7 p ; sporidia uniseriate, uniseptate, hyaline or nearly 
so, scarcely constricted, rather acutely elliptical, 12—15 x 44—5 p (12—16 
X 0—7, Sacc.) On bark of various deciduous trees. Common. 
