EPIDOCHIU.AF. 489 



Epicoccum equiseti, Berk., in Cooke's Hdbk., n. 1679; Sacc, 

 Syll., iv. n. 3504. 



On decaying stems of Eqiiisetum limosum, 



Epicoccum purpurascens. Ehrenb. (figs. 10, 11, 

 p. 442.) 



Sporodochia blackish-brown, globular, 120-150 /x diameter, 

 crowded into oblong clusters 2-3 mm. long, seated on an 

 elongated purple spot; conidia large, subglobose, yellowish 

 then brown, reticulated, distinctly areolated and warted, 

 pedicel hyaline, attenuated at the base, 16-22 fx diameter. 



Epicoccum purpurascens, Ehr., Sylv., p. 12 ; Sacc, Syll., iv. 

 n. 3481. 



On leaves or dead herbaceous stems. 



EPIDOCHIUM. Fries, (fig. 2, p. 442.) 



Sporodochium erumpent, almost superficial, waxy or 

 gelatinous then fleshy, subglobose or wart-like, blackish, 

 rarely pallid, conidiophores filiform and equal or passing 

 into globoso-clavate pseudo-conidia ; conidia ovoid, oblong or 

 piriform, solitary or catenulate. 



Epidochium, Fries, Summa Veg. Scand., p. 471 ; Sacc, 

 Syll., iv. p. 747. 



The subgenus Eu-EpidocMum is more closely allied to 

 Dacryomyceteae than to the Tuherculariae. (Sacc.) 



Epidochium atrovirens. Fr. (fig. 2, p. 442.) 

 Erumpent, discoid, very minute, papillately rugulose, 

 sooty-green when moist, black when dry, gregarious or con- 

 fluent, about 1 mm. diameter ; sporophores filiform, passing 

 at the apex into tawny, elliptico-clavate pseudo-conidia, 

 35 X 15 /u,; conidia unknown. 



EpidocMum atrovirens, Fries, Sum. Yeg. Sc, p. 471 ; Sacc, 

 Syll., n. 3538. 



On dead branches of TJlex, Sarothamnus, Fraxinus, &c. 



