450 FUXGUS-FLOEA. 



Fachnocybe alhida (Fr.), Berk., Eng. FL, v. p. 335. 

 On rotten wood and herbaceous stems. Scattered specimens 

 resemble short white hairs. 



Isaria spumarioides. Cooke. 



Densely tufted, white, palmate or infundibuliform, tips 

 crisped, lobed, or serrate, attenuated below into a minute 

 stem ; stems more or less connate ; conidia subglobose, 4-5 /x 

 diameter. 



Isaria spumarioides, Cke., Grev. ; Sacc, Syll., iv. n. 2816. 



On bark. Superficially resembling Sjnimaria alba. 



Isaria tomentella. Fr. 



Gregarious ; simple cylindrical or subclavate, dingy 

 yellow, 1 line high, rather thick, villose. 



Isaria tomentella, Fries, Syst. Myc, iii. 276 ; Sacc, Syll., iv. 

 n. 2832. 



On rotten wood, also amongst leaves. 



Isaria clavata. Ditm. 



Gregarious ; springing from a stroma ; simple, clavate, 

 whitish or sometimes brownish, villous ; conidia subglobose, 

 2-3 fx diameter. 



Isaria clavata, Ditm. in Sturm, D. C. FL, t. 56 ; Sacc, Syll., 

 iv. n. 2826. 



On trunks. From 2-3 lines high. 



***** On leaves, floicers, or fruit. 



Isaria fuciformis. Berk. 



Slender, pale or bright rose-colour, ^ in. high, simple or 

 sparingly branched, branches acute; conidia very minute, 

 globose, 2 /x diameter. 



Isaria fuciformis, Berk., Austr. Fung., n. 205 ; Sacc, Syll., 

 iv. n. 2889. 



On leaves and germinating seeds of grass. 



Isaria puberula. Berk. 



Minute, reddish, about 1 line high; stem straight, 

 branches few and simple, tips clavate, subverticillate, 

 mealy. 



