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Note.— The portion of description of Nectria infiisaria., Cke. & Hark. 
(No. 100), on page 98, beginning in the eighth line as follows : ‘'in a quad- 
risulcate manner,” &c., and continuing to end of same paragraph, was 
originally intended to form a,part of the description of N. ochroleuca , Sch w., 
but became misplaced. It should therefore be removed from page 98. 
(k Sporidia pluriseptate. 
111. Nectria balsamea, C. & P. Grev. XII, p. 81. On Abies' 
balsamea^ North Elba, N. Y. (Peck). 
“ CiEspitose, erumpent, suborbicular ; perithecia small, smooth, scar¬ 
let, papillate, at length collapsing, crowded on a pale stroma; ascicylindric- 
clavate, 8-spored ; sporidia fusiform, 5-septate, hyaline, (.03x .077 millim.) 
“.077 ” is apparently a typographical error for .0077. The specimens of 
this species sent us by Prof. Peck are, as stated elsewhere, N. cucurbitula, 
Tode., so that we can only copy the description in Grevillea, and this 
agrees so well with that of JSf. cucurbitula, Fr. (Syll. II, p. 543), that it 
may reasonably be suspected that this is, in reality, that species and 
that the measurement of the sporidia, “.03 x .077,” is erroneous. 
112. Nectria aurigera, B. <fc Rav. Grev. IV, p. 40. Rav. Fung. 
Car. y, 60. Ell., N. A. F., 79. On Fraxinus and Chionanthus. 
0 
Erumpent, caespitose, stroma pale brick-red, mostly subelliptical, 
perithecia globose, about one third millim. in diam., covered with a 
yellow powder; ostiolum papilliform, collapsing; asci sublanceolate, 
55—60 x 12—15 ; sporidia subbiseriate, oblong cylindrical, straight or 
slightly curved, yellowish, 6—8-septate, 20—24 x 5—6 !>-. Var. flavitecta, 
B. & C. (Grev. 1. c.), on Kcrria Japonica, has the “ sporidia larger and 
quadriseptate, sometimes with a gelatinous coat.” Probably not distinct 
from the next. 
113. Nectria polythA.ama, Berk. F\. New Zealand II, p. 203. 
Grev. IV, p. 46. 
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The specimens of this species in Rav. Fungi Car. Ill, 54 (on Fraxinus), 
differ from the preceding species only in the absence of the yellow 
powder on the perithecia. This is also wanting on some specimens of 
N. aurigera, the perithecia, in that case, being of the same dull red as in 
this species. There is no shadow of difference in the asci and sporidia, 
at least as the two are represented in Rav. Fungi Car., and if, as there is 
no reason to doubt, the specimens there distributed are authentic, the 
two species are the same, and, in that case, the specilic name, polytha- 
lama, would have precedence. 
114. Nectria Canadensis, E. & P. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club XI, p. 74. 
On bark of dead elm, Ottawa, Canada. Macoun, No. 225 acd 311. 
. Perithecia ca 3 spitose, ovate-globose, 4-4 millim. in diam., dull red, 
densely tuberculose-granular; ostiola not prominent, more or less dis¬ 
tinctly stellate-cleft and linally collapsing slightly; asci sublanceolate, 
75—80 X 10—12 P-, without any distinct paraphyses ; sporidia subbiseriate, 
hyaline, oblong-elliptical, 3-septate, slightly curved, ends obtuse, 18—22 x 
