TORULACEI. 



475 



consists of a brancTied inosculating mycelium, giving rise to simple or forked 

 Bubfastigiate, irregular threads, each tip surmounted by an oblong, curved, 

 or irregular spore ('001 in.) m.m. long. Afterwards the cuticle is raised in 

 little shining transparent pustules, and a tendril of minute spores, precisely 

 like the previous ones, issues from them. {Fig. 185.) 



1412. Glaeosporium umbrinellum. B.&Br, *' Little brown 



Glceosporium." 



Spots irregular, angular, brown ; spores pallid. — B, ^ Br, Ann. 

 N.H. (1866), no. 1144, t. 3,/. 5. 



On fallen oak leaves. Oct. Batheaston. 



Forming minute brown spots ; spores binucleate, ■0004-'0006 in. ('01— "015 

 m.m.) long, supported on long, often forked sporophores, at length oozing 

 out in the form of a pale irregular tendril. — B. 4* Br. 



1413. Glaeosporium ficarise. Berli. " Pilewort GlEeosporium." 



White ; spores irregularly oblong, slightly curved. — Cylind- 

 rosporium ficaricB, Berk. exs. no. 212. An?i. N.H. no. 135. 



On Ranunculus Jicaria. Common. 



Oozing out in tendrils, and forming irregular white patches on the green 

 leaves. 



Order XIV, TORULACEI. 



Perithecium altogether wanting. Fructifying surface naked. 

 Spores compound, or arising from rejDeated division (tomiparous), 

 very rarely reduced to a single cell. — Berh.Outl, p, 325. 



