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:^am. I. MUCEDINEAE. Liuk. 



Sect. I. AMEPtOSrOliAE. Sacc. 



Subsect. 1. Micronemeae. Sacc. 



Trilte 1. Chromosporicae. Sacc. 



CHKOMOSrORIUM. Corda. (fig. 15, p. 313.) 



Hypliae at first creeping on the substratum, thin, soon 

 disappearing; conidia forming an eff'used, powdery layer, 

 bright coloured (not brown or blackish). 



Chromosporium^Cda.; Sturm, Deutsch. Crypt., iii. 2, p. 119; 

 Sacc, Syll., vol. iv. p. 6. 



When mature consisting of an efi'used powdery stratum of 

 bright-coloured conidia, with only traces of hyphae or none. 

 Analogous to the genus Coniosporium in the Dematieae. 



Chromosporium lateritium, Sacc. (fig. 15, p. 313). 

 Eft used and forming a powder}* bright brick-red layer, 



FIGURES ILLUSTRATING THE MUCEDINEAE. 



Fig. 1, Oospora favor um ; — Fig. 2, Monilia aurea; — Fig. 3, Cylindrium 

 Cordae ; — Fig. 4, Oedocephalum laeticoJor, fertile head and free conidium ; 

 — Fig. 5, Oedocephalum Preussii, fruiting heads and a free conidium ; — 

 Fig. 6, Mliinotrichum niveum ; — Fig. 7. Botrijfis corolUgemim ; — Fig. 8, 

 Ovidaria veronicae ; — Fig. 9, Verticillium distans ; — Fig.^ 10, Spicaria 

 elegans ; — Fig. 11, Mycogone cervlna; — Fig. 12, Gonatobotrys flava ; — 

 Fig. 13, Nematogonium aurantiaciim ; — Fig. 14, Tricliothecium roseum; — 

 Fig. 15, Diplosporium album; — Fig. 16, Arthrobotrys rosea, and free coni- 

 dium; — Fig. 17, Didymaria Ungeri ; — Fig. IS, Bostrichonema alpestre : — 

 Fig. 19, Helicomyces tnbidosus, showing coiled septate conidium ; — Fig. 20, 

 Aspergillus glauciis; — Fig. 21, section of head of same: — Fig. 22, Penicil- 

 lium glaucum; — Fig. 23, Ceplialosporium acremonium, twining round a 

 black mould ; — Fig. 24, Dactylaria orchidis ; — Fig. 25, Dactylella implexa : 

 — Fig. 26, Eactylium dendroides; — Fig. 27, Ramularia pratensis: — 

 Fig. 28, Ramidaria hellehori. (The figures are highly magnified.) 



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