Classification . 105 



from near tlie base, witli lono* ascendinor subulate 

 branches, after tlie fashion of a candelabrum. Gonidia 

 spherical, smooth, hyaline, 10-12 /j, diameter. 



Mortierella candelahi'um, Yan Tiegh. and Le Mon., 

 var. mwor. Grove, Joarn. Bot. vol. xiv. n. ser. p. 131, 

 tab. 256, fig. 1. 



On rotten wood. 



Height, 4--^ mm. Yan Tieghem describes his 

 species as 1 mm. high. 



The present variety is considered by its author 

 as such on account of its smaller size and much larger 

 spores. 



SUBFAM. 5. SyNCEPHALIDE.E. 



Yegetative hyphse anastomosing; sporangia fasci- 

 culate, cylindrical, simple or branched ; spores seriate ; 

 columella absent. 



Syncephalis. The only British genus. 



Syncephalis. Yan Tiegh. 



Mycelium soft, anastomosing; sporangiferous 

 hyph^e erect, straight or curved, much thicker than 

 the mycelium, simple, terminating in a subglobose 

 vesicular swelling from which the sporangia radiate ; 

 sporangia cylindrical, simple or branched, gonidia in 

 a single row; chlamydogonidia globose, on lateral 

 mycelial branches. Zj^gospores globose, small. 



Syncephalis, Yan Tiegh. and Le Mon., Ann. 

 Sci. Nat. ser. vi. vol. i. p. 372; Sacc. Syll. vii. 

 p. 227. 



A very remarkable genus j the aseptate sporangi- 

 ferous hyphse terminate in a swollen head, from which 

 the numerous narrowly cylindrical sporangia radiate. 



