ENDODESMIA— BACTRIDIU^r. 477 



Endodesmia glaiica, Berk. & Broome, Ann. Nat. Hist., 1871, 

 n. 1318, t. XX. f. 9 (conidia wrong shape, and should not be 

 appendiculate) ; Sacc, SylL, iv. n. 3267. 



On old cabbage stalks, forming minute glaucous or 

 greyish, silky-looking tufts under a lens. The above de- 

 scription is drawn up from the type specimen. 



Sect. 3. Phragmosporae. Sacc. 

 BACTKIDIUM. Kunze. (fig. 13, p. 442.) 



Sporodochium superficial, rather thin, more or less convex ; 

 conidia elongated, large, pluriseptate, colourless or coloured ; 

 conidiophores simple or branched, terete. 



Bactridium, Kunze, Mykol., Heft i. p. 5 ; Sacc, SylL, iv. 

 p. 691. 



Distinguished by the very large, elongated, multiseptate 

 conidia. 



Bactridium flavum. K. c<: S. 



Sporodochium nearly globose, clear orange, 1-1 • 5 mm. 

 across; conidia fusiform-clavate, 150-180 x 30-50 /x, 5-6- 

 septate, olive with a rufous tinge ; sporophores simple, 

 150-180 X 8-10 /x, colourless. 



Bactridium flavum, Kunze & Schw., Myk., Heft i. p. 5, t. i. 

 f. 2 ; Sacc, SylL, iv. n. 3268. 



On rotten wood. 



Bactridiuni acutum. B. & W. 



White; parasitic, conidia attenuated at the base, apex 

 acute, 1-3-septate, penultimate joint tumid. 



Bactridium acutum, Berk. & White; Scottish Xat., iv. 

 p. 162, t. ii. f. 4; Sacc, SylL, iv. n. 3275. 



Parasitic on the hymenium of Peziza coclileata. Differs 

 from Bactridium helvellae in the conidia being constantly 

 acute at the apex and attenuated towards the base. 



Bactridium helvellae. B. & Br. (fig. 13, p, 442.) 

 Sporodochia confluent, thin, minute, subelfused ; conidio- 

 johores suberect, sparingly branched ; conidia clavate, clavato- 

 piriform, subfusiform, colourless, at maturity 6-7-se23tate, 

 60-70 X 14-16 /x. 



