398 FUXGUS-FLORA. 



CLADOTEICHUM. Corda. (fig. 1, p. 397.) 



Sterile hypliae creeping, fertile ascending, rather rigid, 

 branched, dark-coloured, swollen here and there; conidia 

 1-septate, coloured, originating from the tij^s of branchlets ; 

 usually in short chains. 



Cladotriclium, Corda, in Sturm's Deutschl. Fl. t. 20 ; Sacc, 

 SylL, iv. p. 370. 



The dark, branched threads with nodulose swellings here 

 and there, and the 1-septate spores, mark the genus. 



Cladotrichum Cookei. Sacc. (fig. 1, p. 397.) 



Effused, black ; hyphae branched, forked, nodulose, septate, 

 upper joints inflated or cupulate, conidia oblong, constricted, 

 1-septate, obtuse, often collapsed at the extremities, and then 

 ai^parently truncate, 18-20 x 9-10 /x. 



Cladotriclium Cookei, Sacc, Syll., iv. n. 1 78-4. 



Cladotriclium unise^tatum, Cke., Grev., v. iii., p. 182, pi. 48, 

 f. 2. _ 



On sticks ; forming thick black velvety patches sometimes 

 nearly an inch in length. 



Cladotrichum fuscum. Sacc. 



Tufts thin, indeterminate, brown ; hyphae intricately inter- 

 woven, ascending, branched, wavy, branches diverging, 

 obtuse; conidia oblong, 1-septate. 



Cladotrichum fuscum, Sacc, n. 1800 (not n. 1786). 



Macrotriclium heterosporium, Grev., Ed. Phil. Journ., iii. 

 t. 1. 



On dead capsules of Gentiana campestris. 



Cladotrichum triseptatum. B & Br. 



Eorming broadly effused, jet-black minutely velvety 

 patches ; hyphae repeatedly forked, septate, olive-brown, 

 5-7 IX thick, tips with one or more globose swellings; conidia 

 oblong, tips very obtusely rounded, 3-septate, constricted 

 at the middle septum, 14-16 x 7-8 /x, dark olive-brown, at 

 length nearly opaque. 



Cladotriclium triseptatum, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 511, 

 pi. 5, f. 7, ser. ii. vol. vii. 



On stumps. 



