374 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



GOXIOSPOPJUM. Link. (figs. 27, 28, p. 358.) 



Fertile hyphae erect, distinctly nodulosely-septate ; conidia 

 lateral, opposite or verticillate, angular or globosely-angular, 

 sooty, minutely stipitate. 



Goniosjjorium, Link, Spec. PI. Fungi, i. p. 45 ; Sacc, Syll., 

 vol. iv. p. 280. 



Distinguished by the fertile hypliae being distinctly 

 swollen or nodulose at the septa, and the more or less 

 angular spores. 



Goniosporium puccinioides. Link. (fig. 27, 28, 

 p. 358.) 



Forming small, gregarious, rounded, black, somewhat 

 shining tufts; hyphae distinctly swollen at the nodes, 

 nyaline, 3-4 /x thick, simple, bearing the conidia about the 

 middle, often sterile above, apex obtuse ; conidia globosely 

 cuboid or variously angular, 10-14 /x diameter, sooty brown. 



Goniosporium puccinioides. Link, Sp, PI. Fungi, i. p. 45 ; 

 Sacc, Syll., vol. iv. n. 1354. 



On dead leaves of Carex stricta. 



Tribe 6. Tricliosporieae. Sacc. 

 VIRGARIA. Nees. (fig. 22, p. 358.) 



Sterile hyphae creeping ; fertile erect, simple or forked, 

 or with a few erect branches, rather rigid, septate ; conidia 

 inserted near the tip of the stem and the branches, globose 

 or elliptical, sooty-brown. 



Virgaria, Nees, Syst., xi. p. 14; emended, Sacc, Syll., 

 vol. iv. p. 280. 



Virgaria nigra. Nees. 



Tufts effused or compact, somewhat circular; fertile 

 hyphae erect, dichotomously divided into slender, erect 

 dark brown branches that are attenuated at the tips ; conidia 

 globose, blackish brown, about 3 /x diameter. 



Virgaria nigra, Nees, Syst, ii. p. 14; Sacc, Syll., n. 1356. 



On rotten bark and wood. 



