102 British Funcri, 



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Distinguished by the mucli branched sporangio- 

 pliores having all the branchlets sterile and spine-like 

 at the tips, and by the warted sporangia containing 

 only one spore. 



CJioeiocladmm Jonesii, Fres. (figs. 62, 63). 



Spoi^ngiferous hyphas erect, branched, main 

 branches at right angles, verticillate, or often 

 opposite, these are again divided once or twice in the 

 same plane, all the branchlets with spine-like tip?, the 

 central branchlet of the ultimate ramification always 

 barren, the lateral ones producing small clusters of 

 sporangia from a swollen portion situated at some 

 distance below the pointed tip ; sporangia globose, 

 one-spored, minutely warted, 60-120 fju in diameter; 

 spores globose, smooth, bluish, 6-9 fi. 



CJic^tocladmm Jonesii, Fres. Beitr. p. 97; Sacc. 

 Syll. vii. n. 747. 



Botrytis Jonesii, Cke. Hdbk. n. 1772. 



On dung of various animals. Local. 



Forming minute tufts, often mixed witb Mucor 

 mucedo, on which it is supposed to be to some extent 

 parasitic. All the branches are swollen at the point 

 of origin, and spine-like at the tips. 



Clicetocladmm Brefeldii, Van Tiegb. (fig. 130). 



Sporangiferous hyph^ erect, branched, 3 — 4 times 

 verticillately-branclied, sporangia spherical, bluish, 

 30-50 fi diameter ; spores globose, 2-4 /x diameter ; 

 zygospores globose, pale brown, 40-50 /j,. 



Chcetocladium Brefeldii, Van Tiegh. and Le Mon. ; 

 Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. v. vol. xvii. p. 342, t. 23, figs. 71 

 —79; Sacc. Syll. vii. 748. 



