348 FUXGUS-FLOKA. 



Paraspora triseptata. Grove, Joiirn. Bot., vol. xiii. (1884), 

 p. 19G, pi. 240, f. 9; Sacc, Syll., n. 1084. 



On dead wood. Invisible to the naked eye ; consisting of 

 small, closely compacted clusters of the erect spores. 



Tribe 11. Jliloicicae. Sacc. 

 MILOWIA. Ma.-s. (fig. 1, p. 313.) 



Sterile hj^phae forming an intricately interwoven tuft tbat 

 produces here and there towards the surface large vesicular 

 bodies, which in turn bear 2-4 erect, cylindrical outgrowths, 

 the contents of which become broken up by transverse septa 

 into conidia ; the conidia at length escape through the 

 ruptured apex of the mother hypha. 



Milowia, Massee, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, vol. v. p. 758, 

 pi. 13; Sacc, Syll., iv. p. 222. 



The counterpart of Sporocldsma in the Dematieae. The 

 conidia present the appearance of spores in an ascus. 



1 



Milowia nivea. Mass. (fig. 1, p. 313.) 

 Tufts globose, 1 line across, snow-white; the erect hyphae 

 containing the conidia, 60-70 x 7-8 /x, and containing 6-8 

 cylindiical, abruptly truncate conidia, 9-10 x 6-7 fx. 



Milowia nicea, 3Iass., Journ. Eoy. Micr. Soc, vol. v. p. 758, 

 pi. 13; Sacc, SylL, n. 1086. 



On dead leaves of Bhjsmus compressiis. 



Tribe 12. SeptocyUndrieae. Sacc. 

 SEPTOCYLIXDRIUM. Bon. (fig. 23, p. 313.) 



Hyphae very short, scarcely distinct from the conidia. 

 Conidia cylindrical, o.olourless or brightly coloured, con- 

 catenate, 2- many-septate. 



Septocylindrium, Bunurden, Handb., jj. 35 ; Sacc, Svll., iv. 

 p. 223. 



The species are reduced to chains of septate conidia. 



