360 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Torula monilioides. Corda. (fig. 10, p. 313.) 

 Tufts effused, black ; conidia elliptical, subtruncate at 



both ends, 6-7 X 3-4 /x, smoky-brown, arranged in monili- 



form erect chains. 



Torula monilioides, Corda in Sturm's Deutscb. Cr. Fl., 



t. 38; Sacc, Syll., iv. n. 1217. 

 On rotten wood and branches. 



Torula cylindrica. Berk. 



Forming black, effused patches ; basidia short, cjlindric- 

 clavate, erect; chains of conidia short, decumbent; conidia 

 cylindrical, ends slightly rounded, dark smoky-brown, 

 7-9 X 5 /x. 



Torula cylindrica, Berk., Engl. Flor., v. p. 359 ; Sacc, 

 Syll., iv. n. 1220. 



On fallen branches. 



Torula abbreviata. Corda. 



Tufts small, black, soon confluent, chains short, of 3-4 

 minute, globose, greyish-brown, semipellucid conidia. 



Torula ahhreviata, Corda, Ic. Fung., i. p. 8, f. 130; Sacc, 

 Syll. iv., n. 1233. 



On herbaceous stems, wood, &c. 



Var. sphaeriformis, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 464. 

 Not effused, but collected in little heaps; mycelium more 

 abundant than in type, fertile hyphae forked, bearing the 

 chains of conidia at the tips. 



On decorticated branches of Pinus sylvestris. 



Torula basicola. B. & Br. 



Forming black, effused patches ; sterile hyphae creeping, 

 branched, here and there ascending ; fertile hyphae very 

 short ; chains of conidia short, in compacted fascicles ; 

 conidia subquadrate, dark brown, 6-7 /x diameter, not 

 narrowed at the ends, hence the chains present no con- 

 strictions. 



Torula hasicola, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 465, t. xi. 

 f. 4; Sacc, Syll., 1237. 



On stems of Pisum and Nemopliila. 



Torula gyrosa. Cke. & Mass. 

 Forming small punctiform spots, black; conidia sub- 

 quadrate, three or four united in variously curved threads. 



