TORULACEI. 477 



1418. Toiula stilbospora. Corda. "Willow Torula." 



Tufts erumpent, pulverulent, elongated, confluent, very black ; 

 flocci unequal, branched or simple, flexuous ; spores sub-quadrate, 

 gub-equal, connate, brown. — Corda. Sturm iii. t. 46. Corda. Icon. 

 v./. 13. Rabli. F.E. no. 79 4' 882. 



On willow brandies. Batbeaston, &c. 



1419. Torula abbreviata. Corda. " Short-tbreaded Tomla." 



Tufts black, confluent; flocci abbreviated, 3-4 spored ; spores 

 very minute, globose, greyish, semi-pellucid. — Corda. Icon. \.f. 

 130, 



var. p. sphaeriaefoxxnis. B. ^- Br. Ann. N.H. no. 464. 



On decorticated branches of Pinus sylvestris. Wraxall. 



Instead of being widely diffused, this variety presents little sphferia-lite 

 tufts, and has a highly developed hyphasma, consisting of forked threads, 

 at the apices of which the short chains of spores are fixed. — B. <£' Br. 



1420. Torula basicola. B.S^'Br. " Creeping Torula." 



Hyphasma creeping, branched, here and there rising ; fertile 

 flocci short, 5-7 articulate, fastigiate; articulations not constricted, 

 at length separating, the last very obtuse. — Ann. N.H. wo. 465, 

 t, 11,/. 4. 



On stems of peas and Nemophila auriculata. 



Black, effused ; hyphasma here and there rising from the general mass, 

 and giving off fascicles of short fastigiate fertile threads, consisting of 5-7 

 articulations. Each endochrome has usually a single nucleus. — B.(hBr. 



1421. Torula hysterioides. Cd. " Hysterimn-like Torula." 



Tufts linear, abbreviated, often parallel, black ; flocci erect, 

 crowded (adherent), equal, filiform, yellowish ; spores quadran- 

 gular, terete, pellucid. — Corda. Icon. i. f. 139, B. ^ Br. Ann. 

 N.H.no.lhl. Rahh.F.E.no.'2^2, 



On poles, &c. 



Easily distinguished under the'microscope hy the flocci having a tendency 

 to adhere to each other, side by side. 



1422. Torula cylindrica. Berk. *' Cylindrical Torula." 



Effused, threads not moniliform ; spores fasciated. — Berk. Eng. 

 Fl.Y.p.3D9. 



On sticks. 



Spores united four together, into short, equal, cylindrical flocci, which 

 resemble in some states those of Arthriaium. It appears like a thin black 

 wash on the bark of sticks.— i/. J. B. 



