C lassification . i o i 



Agreeing witli Helicosfylumm having the branches 

 bearing the sporangia curved at the tip, but differs in 

 having only one kind of sporangium, and in the basal 

 half of its wall remaining as a permanent frill round 

 the columella. 



Gircinella simplex, Yan Tiegh. (figs. 13, 14). 



Sporangiferous hyph^e erect, becoming brown, with 

 several short, spirally arranged branches, recurved at 

 the tips, each one supporting a globose, bluish sporan- 

 gium ; columella conico-cylindrical, spores globose, 

 colourless, 3-4 fj,. 



Gircinella simplex, Van Tiegh. Ann. Sci. Nat. 

 Hist. ser. vi. vol. i. p. 92, pi. 2, figs. 52 — 54; Sacc. 

 Syll. vii. n. 731. 



On dog's dung. Rare. 



Forming minute tufts about J in. high, at first 

 whitish, soon becoming brown. 



SUBFAM. 3. Ch^TOCLADIE^. 



Vegetative hyphae not anastomosing; sporangia 

 monosporous ; columella present. 



Chcetocladium. The only known genus. 



Chaetocladium, Fres. 



Sporangiferous hyphae erect, 3 — 5 times branched 

 above, all the branches and branchlets acute and 

 sterile at the tips ; sporangia globose, warted, con- 

 taining a single spore, springing in small clusters 

 from the central portion of ternary lateral branchlets; 

 spores smooth. 



Chcetocladium y Fres. Bietr. zur Mykol. p. 97; Sacc. 

 Syll. vii. p. 220. 



BotrytiSf Cke. Hdbk. p. 591. 



