SPOEOCYBE. 453 



Sporocybe brassicaecola. Sacc. 



Stem black, sometimes forked ; head globose, at first grey, 

 then black ; conidia grey, irregular, more or less attenuated 

 at the ends, 5-10 fx long. 



Sporocyhe brassicaecola, Sacc, Syll., iv. n. 2878. 



Periconia brassicaecola, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1452, 

 t. 1, f. 3. 



Forming dense black patches on the inside of decayed 

 cabbage-stalks. 



Sporocybe cuneifera. Sacc. 



Stem attenuated upwards, brownish, simple or sparsely 

 divided by the separation of the hyphae into two or more 

 bundles from being firmly compacted below ; heads ovate ; 

 conidia obversely cuneate or narrowly obovate, pale greenish- 

 brown, 10-11 X 3-4 /x. 



Sporocybe cuneifera, Sacc, Syll., iv. n. 2879. 



Stilbum cimeiferum, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1451 > 

 t. 1, f. 2. 



On rotten cabbage-stalks. 



Sporocybe calycioides. Fr. 



Black, 4 mm. high; mycelium effused, forming spots; 

 head subglobose, compact ; stem slender, subulate, sometimes 

 striate, sometimes flexuous. 



Sporocybe calycioides. Fries, Sysc., Myc, iii. p. 342 ; Sacc.,. 

 Syll., iv. n. 2855. 



Periconia calycioides (Fr.), Berk., Outl., p. 343. 



On dead herbaceous stems, trunks of beech, &c. 



Sporocybe atra. Sacc. 



Black. Scattered or gregarious, J-J mm. high; stem 

 erect, opaque, rather rigid ; head ovoid, with spreading, short 

 hyaline conidiophores ; conidia oblong-fusiform, olive, 

 10-12 fjL long. 



Sporocybe atra, Sacc, Syll., iv. n. 2891. 



Graphium atrum, Desmaz., XVI. Not., p. 343 (1848.) 



On dry leaves of Holciis mollis and species of Festuca. 



Sporocybe Phillipsii. Sacc. 

 Minute; stem erect, cylindrical, black; head globose; 

 conidia globose, brown, verruculose, 7-10 jx diameter. 



