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105. jSTectria muscivora, Berk., in Rav. Funsf. Car. I, 57. ( Nec- 
tria suhcoccinea, Sacc. & Ell., Mich. II, p. 570.) 
Perithecia mostly csespitose, bright red, siibovate, small (one fifth 
millim.), seated mostly around the margin of the small, pale, tiibercii- 
lariform stroma, which, together with its group of perithecia, is mostly 
less than 1 millim. in diam.; asci cylindrical, 75—90 x 8—10 'j- ; sporidia 
miiseriate, narrow-elliptical, 14—16 x 6—7 yellowish-subhyaline, be¬ 
coming 1-septate. On bark of living alder. West Chester, Pa. (Ever¬ 
hart & Haines). Distinguished from W. coccinea by its broader, more 
obtuse, yellowish sporidia and its more distinctly superficial stroma, 
which, in some cases at least, seems to arise from the remains of dead 
scale insects, which are abundant on the bark. 
The above description is from the Pennsylvania specimens of N. sub- 
coccinea, S. & E., which are the same as the specimens of N. muscivora, 
Berk., cited, which is, presumably, the same as N, muscivora, B. & 
Br., in Cooke’s Handbk., No. 2364, though neither the Pennsylvania speci¬ 
mens nor those in Rav. Car. show anything of the “ white lanose patches, 
2 in. or more in diameter.” In Ravenel’s specimens, the perithecia are 
collapsed, the only point in which they differ from the specimens of N. 
subcoccinea. 
Perithecia furfuraceous or squamulose. {Lepidoyiectria, Sacc.) 
106. Nectria Apocyni, Pk. 26th Rep. N. Y. State Mus., p. 84. 
“Csespitose or scattered, dull red ; perithecia minute, pale ochraceous 
and subglobose when moist, dull red, collapsed or laterally compressed 
and rough, with minute, whitish scales when dry ; ostiola minute ; spores 
biseriate, uniseptate, filiform, usually constricted in the middle, nucleate, 
.00065—.0008 in. long ; conidia subhemispherical or irregular, small, pale 
red ; spores fusiform, straight, .0005—.0006 in. long.” Specimens found 
at Newfield, N. J., July, 1883, on dead stems of Asclepias tuberosa, with 
Volutella flexuosa, C. & E., had asci about 35 x 7 p-, sporidia 12—18 x 34—4 
p-, constricted at the septum and nucleate. 
107. Nectria diploa, B. & C. Jour. Linn. Soc., X, p. 378. (Lev., 
IV, p. 46, var., diminuta. 
Perithecia csespitose, min^ite, ovate, subfurfuraceous, at length 
collapsing, light red, parasitic on some erumpent Falsa V; asci sub- 
sessile, oblong-cylindrical, about 65 x 10 p ; sporidia obliquely uniseriate, 
oblong-elliptical, endochrome finally divided in the middle, 20—25 x 8—9 
p, hyaline or nearly so. In some of the asci, the sporidia are partially 
biseriate and somewhat smaller. On bark of alder. So. Ca. Ravenel. 
The description here given is from an examination of the specimens in 
Rav. Fungi Caroliniani, III, 55. In these specimens, the nuclei have 
disappeared. The underlying ( Vedsa) V is so completely covered by the 
perithecia of the Nectria as to be easily overlooked. 
108. Nectria dematiosa, Schw. Syn. N. Am., 1424. 
“Frequent on branches of Platanus and Morus, Bethlehem, Pa. 
Allied to .Y. cinnabarina, but much smaller. Osespitose, erumpent. seated 
