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104 THE WEST V1KC-INIA FLORA C. cocciNea (Pers.) Seaver. (Nectria coccinea Fr., ditissima Tul.). On bark of dead Magnolia Fraseri, March, 1894. Asci 65 X 7.5 ц. Spores 10 to 15 X 3.5 to 6 /1 (Nuttall, 1472, 451 ). On dead and fallen Robinia Pscudacacia, on Magnolia Fraseri, Oct. 17, 1893 (Nuttall, 11 15, 162). NECTRIA Fries. N, Peziza (Tode) Fries. (А/. vulpina E. & E.). On bark of dead Uhnus pubescens? Oct. 17, 1894. Spores 10 X 5 /1, 1-septate, 2-guttulate (Nuttall, 1216, 164). N. EPISPHAERIA (Tod.) Fr. On dead fallen twigs, Aug. 15, 1893 (Nuttall, 1 175, 143). On Fagus, Monongalia: near Morgantown (Sheldon). APONECTRIA Sacc. A. 1NAURATA (B. & Br.) Sacc. On Rhus copallina, Mar. 24, 1894 (Nuttall, 1431). Micro spores 3 X i /i. Spores 10 to 12.5 X 3 /1. HYPOCREA Fr. II. lenta (Tode) Berk. & Br. (H. Schweinitzii Sacc.). On an Oak log. Boone: near Lick Run (Sheldon). H. patella Cooke & Peck. On dead wood, Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall, 75). H. Virginiensis E. & E. Proc. Phila. Acad., 442 (1893). Type habitat : ' On leaves of Rhododendron maximum, Aug. 12, 1893 (Nuttall, discov. 1163). Epiphyllous, stroma carnose, scattered, sub-hemispherical or depressed-turbinate, 1 to 2 mm. diameter, of a yellowish gray color, subtruncate above and obscurely margined (when mature). Perithecia buried in the stroma, ovate, membranaceous, 110 to 150 /1 diameter. Ostiola hemis pherical, prominent, black, broadly perforated and some times collapsed. Asci clavate-cylindrical, p. sp. 40 to 45 x 7 to 8 ц, short-stipitate, filiform-paraphysate, 8-spored. Sporidia biseriate, oblong-fusoid, yellowish-hyaline, uniseptate, slightly constricted at the septum, obtusely pointed at the ends, 10 to 12x3 to 3.5 /1. H. viridans B. & C. seems to differ in its hidden ostiola (ostiolis latitantibus). This species is said by Seaver to be a discomycete. H. tenerrima E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 442 (1893). Type habitat : Incrusting moss, leaves, twigs, living Gaultheria procumbens, etc. July, 1893 (Nuttall, discov. 1 138, 123).