GENERIC DIAGNOSIS AND SYNONYMY 23 



Microaspergilhis Wehmer, in IMonograph. 1901. 



Biourge included in his Monograph, under species names as Pemcillium, 

 a number of organisms figured with monoverticillate penicilh, which, when 

 he finally sent them to us in 1928, had been relabeled as species of Micro- 

 aspergillus. In every case examined, these species had the typical "foot- 

 cell" of the Aspergilli (see Thom and Raper, p. 17. 1945) which in no case 

 appeared in his previous drawings. On this basis alone, these organisms 

 could be removed from Pemcillium. The species under consideration are 

 really AspergiUi belonging to the A. restrictus series of the Aspergillus 

 glaucus group (see Thom and Raper, 1945). They are reported in this 

 Manual only in the Species Index. Biourge took up the name Micro- 

 aspergillus, previously introduced by Wehmer (1901), and made it include a 

 series of very small and delicate forms mostly with a single series of sterig- 

 mata. 



Monilia Persoon, emend. Sacc. in Mich. II, p. 17 nee Fr., in Sylloge IV, p. 31. 



1886. 



Saccardo's diagnosis translated : hyphae erect, widely branching; colonies 

 fairly compact, rarely loose and spreading, bearing sporophores; conidia 

 rather large in chains. 



This genus has been insufficiently studied and is unsatisfactorily sepa- 

 rated from Oospora. Essentially Persoon included in his idea of Monilia 

 any species ^vith spores borne in chains, as shown by the forms assigned to 

 the genus. Detailed figures or descriptions of the formation of such coni- 

 dial chains were entirely omitted. Penidllium was included along with 

 Aspergillus and many other forms. So far as its relation to Penicillium 

 is concerned, Persoon's genus contributed nothing. 



Monoverticillium Biourge, in Bui. Ass. Anc. El. Ec. Brass. Univ. Louvain, 



No. 3. 1920. 

 In his Monograph (1923) Biourge used Dierckx's name Aspergilloides 

 on p. 31 to cover forms with simple verticils of sterigmata, but on p. 265 

 placed his own (1920) designation Monoverticillium (as a sub-genus) first 

 and followed it with Aspergilloides. 



Paecilomyces Bainier, in Bui. Soc. Mycol. France 23: 26-27, PI. VII. 

 1907. Tj^pe species: Paecilo7nyces varioti Bainier. 



Synonyms: Penicillium divaricatum Thom, Eidamia catenulata Home 



and Williamson. 

 Probable synonyms: Corrollium Sopp and some species of Spicaria Harz. 

 This genus* was describedjas related to Penicilliwn and Aspergillus, 

 and distinguished from them_^by its sterigmata which are short tubular or 



