DIPLOCOCCIUM— CLASTEROSPORIU^L 399 



The conidia are distinctly 3-septate in Berkeley's type 

 specimen. The present species so obviously belongs to the 

 present genus that it is retained here in spite of the conidia 

 being 3-septate. 



DIPLOCOCCIUM. Grove. 



Fertile hyphae erect, septate, branched, olivaceous ; conidia 

 catenulate, 1-septate. 



Diplococcium, Grove, Journ. Bot., vol. xxiii. p. 1G7; Sacc, 

 Syll., p. 374. 



Allied to CJadotriclmm, but distinguished by the less 

 rigid hyphae not being furnished with inflations here and 

 there. 



Diplococcium spicatum. Grove. 



Fertile hyphae gregarious, somewhat fasciculate, erect, 

 rather wavy, olive, septate, filiform, 200-300 x 4-5 /x, 

 furnished with a few alternate, long, spreading branches ; 

 conidia in chains of 3-4, opposite or verticillate near the 

 tips of the branches; conidia 1-septate, constricted at the 

 septum, oblong, 9-10 X 4-5 fx, olivaceous, pellucid. 



Diplococcium spicatum, Grove, Journ. Bot., vol. xxiii. p. 167, 

 pi. 257, fig. 7 ; «acc., Syll., iv. n. 1802. 



On rotten wood. 



Sect. III. PHEAGMOSPOEAE. Sacc. 



Subsect. 1. Micronemeae. Sacc. 



Tribe 15. Clasterosjporieae. Sacc. 



CLASTEEOSPOEIUM. Schw. (fig. 8, p. 397.) 



Saprogenous; hyphae creeping, bearing here and there 

 solitary, fuscous, 2- many-septate, somewhat straight, fusoid 

 or cylindrical conidia. 



Clasterosporiuirij Schweinitz, Syn. Amer. Fung., n. 2998; 

 Sacc, Syll., iv. p. 382. 



