MELANCONIEI. 



CHEIROSPORA, Fr. 



Spores collected in bundles 

 at the tip of hyaline, filiform 

 sporophores, forming monili- 

 form threads. — Berh. Outl. p. 

 325. {Fig. 184.) 



Fig. 184. 



1404. 



Cheirospora botryospora. 



Cheirospora." 



Fr. " Cluster-spored 



Gregarious, punctiform, black, opaque, oozing when moist in 

 a tremelloid mass ; stroma hyaline, gelatinous ; sporophores 

 dichotomous or branched ; spores minute, oblong, collected in 

 subglobose heads at the tips of the sporophores. — F7\ S.V.S. p. 

 499. B. 4' Br. Ann.N.H. no. 441*. Hyperomyxa stilhosporoides. 

 Corf/a. iii./. 89. Stilhospora hotryospora. Mont. Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 1837,^. 18, /. 5. Myriocephalum. Fckl. exs. no. ^6-97 . Curr. 

 Micr. Journ. iv. ^. 11, /. 1-9. De Not. Micr. Ital. iii. 1. 10. Fres. 

 Beitr. t. 5,/, 1-9. 



On beach and ivy twigs. Common. 



There appears to be no specific difference between the form on beech twigs 

 and that on ivy. {Fig. 184.) 



Gen. 147. 



NEMASFORA, P. 



Spores coloured, oozing out in large tendrils ; spores of two 

 kincls, some minute, others filiform, with a strong curvature. — 

 Berk. Outl. p. 325. Eng.Fl. Y.p. odd. 



These species are only conditions of Sphseriaceous fungi. 



1405. 



Nemaspoza crocea. P. " Orange Nemaspora." 



Nucleus pallid, spores (at length) curved, very slender, 

 orange. — Pers. Syn. p. 109. Eng^ Fl. y. p). 2>dd. Fries.exs.no. 

 107. Moug. exs. no. 177. Desm. Ann. Sc. Nat. xix. t. 5, /. 3. 

 Sphceria pjrofusa. Sow.t. 377. Lihertella faginea. Desm. Ann. 



