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of AcauUum Sopp reported perithecia which showed well defined ostioles, 

 but stopped short of adequate descriptions of asci and ascospores which 

 would have insured subsequent recognition of his species by these char- 

 acters. More recently Curzi (1930), Emmons and Dodge (1931), and 

 Jones (1936) have reported similar perithecia for species of Scopulariopsis, 

 with which genus Sopp's AcauUum is regarded as synonymous. 



Aspergilloides Dierckx, in Soc. Scien. Brux. 25: 83-89. 1901. 



Dierckx used this name to include species now assigned in the mono- 

 verticillate section of Penicillium. 



Aspergillopsis Sopp, in Monogr., pp. 201-202, Taf. XX, fig. 149 and Taf. 



XXIII, fig. 31. 1912. 



This generic name was proposed for Penicillium-like forms in which the 

 stalk, or conidiophore, ended in a globose or clavate apex producing pear- 

 shaped or clavate "sterigmata" (or metulae?) radiating in all directions. 

 Each "sterigma" (or metula) bore a verticil of 5 to 15 short, thick cells 

 producing conidial chains. Sopp regarded this group more as presenting 

 transitional forms toward Penicillium than toward Aspergillus. He de- 

 scribed one species, A. fumosus. The genus may as well be dropped since 

 no authentic material has been reported since the genus was described. 



Byssochlamys Westling, in Svensk Bot. Tids. 3: 134, Taf. 4. 1909. 



Generic diagnosis: Mycehum floccose, white, hyphae prostrate, plu- 

 rinucleate; asci abundantly produced, naked, almost sessile; 8-spored, in 

 clusters without perithecial walls. Chlamydospores formed from the tips 

 of the hyphae, solitary; conidia in chains, with sterigmata short and mostly 

 borne singly. The genus was described as intermediate between the 

 Endomycetaceae and the Gymnoascaceae. 



Westling's culture (Byssochlamys nivea) has not been seen, but Olliver 

 and Smith (1933) described Byssochlamijs fulva to cover a strain with the 

 conidial morphology of a Paecilomyccs in which structures believed to be 

 homologous with the chlamydospores of some authors, or the macrospores 

 of Home and Williamson (1923), became asci. 



Carpenteles Langeron, in Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol. Paris 87; 343-345. 



1922. 



Langeron proposed Carpenteles as a new genus to include ascosporic 

 Penicillia, naming Penicillium glaucum (Link) Brefeld as type. His 

 proposal was unsupported by investigations, hence acceptance must be 

 withheld unless someone supplies sufficient data to make the genus useful. 

 Shear (1934) assigned an ascosporic Penicillium to this genus as C. asperum 



