MICROCERA— EPICOCCUM. 487 



conidia elongated, acute at both ends, curved, 3-5-septate, 

 hyaline, 70-100 X 4—5 /x; conidiophores long, 2'b fx thick. 



Microcera coccojjJiila^ Desm., Ann. Sci. Nat., 1848, p. 359 ; 

 Sacc, Syll., iv. n. 3473. 



On various kinds of Coccus attached to branches of trees. 



The conidial condition of Spliaerostilhe, 



Series II. Tubercularieae dematieae. Sacc. 

 Sect. 1. Amerosporae. Sacc. 

 EPICOCCUM. Link. (figs. 10, 11, p. 442.) 



Sporodochium more or less globose or convex, cellular; 

 conidia subglobose, surface minutely warted and sometimes 

 divided into areolae (many-celled), conidiophores very short. 



Epicoccum, Link, Obs., ii. p. 32 ; Sacc, Syll., iv. p. 736. 



The sporodochia are gregarious, and often heated on a red 

 or purple patch of colour. 



Epicoccum vulgare. Corda. 



Spots variable in colour, greyish, greenish, or with a blue 

 tinge ; stroma convex, oblong, blood-red, then blackish ; 

 conidia crowded, globose, reticulated, brown, the middle por- 

 tions of the areolae furnished with black worts, 21-25 fx dia- 

 meter, conidiophores very short, white, attenuated down- 

 wards. 



Epicoccum vulgare, Corda, Icon. Fung., i. p. 5, fig. 90 (in 

 part) ; Sacc, Syll., iv. n. 3482. 



On rotting herbaceous stems, leaves, &c. 



Epicoccum granulatum. Penz. 



Sporodochia gregarious, confluent, pulverulent, jet black ; 

 stroma hemispherical ; hyphae yellow then brown or fuscous, 

 articulated ; conidia blackish-olive, sphaeroidal, not pedi- 

 cellate, many-celled, minutely granular or warted, 20-28 /x 

 diameter. 



Epicoccum granulatum, Penzig, Fung. Agrum. in Michelia, 

 ii. p. 487 ; Sacc, Syll., iv. n. 3484. 



On rotting wood, fading leaves of orange, and on Sorghum 

 cernuum. 



