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20 FUNGUS-FLOE A. 



Botrytis galanthina. Sacc. 



Hypliae with short branches towards the tip, "umber- 

 brown, branchlets incrassated at the tip ; conidia obovate, 

 borne on elongated sjiicnles, 15-18 ix long. 



Botrytis galantJiina, Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 705. 



Pohjactis galanthina, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1385, 

 t. viii. f. 8. 



On bulbs of snowdrop (^Galantlius nivalis^. 



OVULAKIA. Sacc. (fig. 8, p. 274.) 



Parasites. Hyphae subsimple, erect, more or less dis- 

 tinctly furnished with minute tooth-like projections near 

 the apex that bear the conidia. Conidia one-celled, colourless, 

 solitary, or rarely in short chains. 



Ovularia, Sacc, Mich., ii. p. 17; Sacc, Syll., iv. p. 139. 



Closely allied to Bamularia, but distinguished by the con- 

 tinuous conidia. 



* On Dicotyledons. 



Ovularia lychnicola. Mass. 



Spots often rather large and numerous, subcircular, 

 ochraceous; fertile liyphae short, simple, erect, tufted; 

 conidia cylindrical, attenuated slightly at both ends, 

 colourless, 12-15 X 4 /x. 



Bamiilaria li/chnicola, Ckc, Grev., xiv. p. 40; Sacc, Syll., 

 iv., n. 993. 



On living leaves of Lychnis cUurna. 



Ovularia lapsanae. Mass. 



Spots at first inconspicuous then becoming dry and pale ; 

 fertile hyphae tufted, simple or with a few short branchlets, 

 ■30-50 X 3 /x, not septate ; conidia cylindrical, rather 

 attenuated at both ends, 10-15 X 3-5-4 /x, in short chains. 



Bamularia lampsanae, Sacc, Mich., ii. p. 549; Sacc, Syll., 

 iv. n. 1008. 



On under surface of living leaves of nijoplewort (Lapsana 

 communis^. 



Ovularia destructiva. Mass. 

 Parasitic. Erumpent ; forming broadly effused 23atches ; 



