JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 
Vol. n. MANHATTAN, KANSAS, NOVEMBER, 1886. No. 11. 
SYNOPSIS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN HYPO- 
CREACEAE, WITH DESCRIPTIONS 
OF THE SPECIES. 
BY .1. 1$. Kl.IilS AND B. M. EVKHHAKT. 
(Continued from page 111.) 
109. Xectiiia tkemelloides, E. & E. On bark of dead willow, 
Plaquemines county, La., July, 1886. J.ianglois, No. 592. 
Perithecia gregarious, ovate, 800 p- in diara., coarsely furfuraceous 
and subtuberculose-roughened, pale orange, with a distinctly papillose- 
conic ostiolum ; asci about 50 x 7—8 cylindric-clavate, sessile, imper¬ 
fectly paraphysate; sporidia biseriate, oblong-elliptical, 2-nucleate, 
becoming l-septate, 8—12x3—4/^, hyaline. The asci are contracted at 
the apex into a short truncate apiculus. ♦ 
110. Nectria OCHROLEUCA, Schw. Syii. N. Am., No. 1418. On limbs 
of various deciduous trees, Carolina and Pennsylvania (Schweinitz). On 
dead limbs of Lmivus Benzoin^ VVest Chester, i^a. (Everhart). N. A. F., 778. 
Stroma granulose-byssoid, subpulvinate and nearly white at first, 
becoming firmer and yellowish; perithecia 8—15 on a stroma, ovate- 
globose, dull yellowish-white, mostly less than one third millim. in diam., 
surface densely furfuraceo-squamulose, except at the apex, around the 
rather darker, slightly-depressed, papilliform ostiolum, where the edge of 
the squamulose coat forms a miniature crown or wreath, giving the apex 
,of the perithecium the appearance of the blossom end of an apple, or 
sometimes the scaly coating is divided in a substellate-cleft fashion as in 
some Valiids; asci clavate-cylindrical, 45—55 x 10—12 \ sporidia 
biseriate, oblong-fusoid, l-septate, 12—16 x 4—5 /c 
Mr. Win. C. Stevenson, Jr., has compared the N. A. F., specimens 
with those in Herb. Schw., and finds them the same. 
