478 TORULACEI. 



1423. Torula hexbaruxn. Lh. " Herbaceous Torula." 



Spores globose, green, then black ; flocci aggregate, not strongly 

 moniliform, — Link. iSp. i.p. 128. Corda, Sturm, t. 48. Eng. Fl. v. 

 p» 359. Cooke exs. no. 362. 



On stems of herbaceous plants, especially UmhellifercB. Com- 

 mon. [United States.] 



Forming flat sooty patches, variegated with olive-green j spores fasciated. 



(Fig. 186.; 



1424. Tozula graxninis. Desm. " Grass Torula." 



Tufts very small, subrotund or oval, brownish black ; flocci 

 simple, decumbent, opaque ; spores globose, deciduous. — Desm. 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. 1834, ii. t. 2,/. 6. Desm. exs. no. 169. B. ^ Br. Ann. 

 N.H. no. 134. Fckl. exs. no. 69. 



On dry leaves of Carices. Colleyweston. 



1425. Torula plantaginis. Cd. *' Plantain Torula." 



Hypophyllous, effused, indeterminate, tomentose, black ; hy- 

 phasma creeping, filamentous, branched ; flocci erect, brown, 

 fasciculate, flexuose, simple, rarely forked ; spores subquadrate, 

 smooth, brown, nucleate. — Corda. iii. 1. 1,/. 14. B. ^ Br. Ann. 

 N.H. no. 252. Kl. exs. no. 1764. Fckl. exs. no. 65. 



On leaves of Plantain. Stibbington, Hants. 



" I find exactly the same barren creeping threads of a perfectly distinct 

 structure from the torulose threads as Corda. I suspect that further obser- 

 vations will show that this fungus has distinct spores."' — M.J.B. 



1426. Torula sporendonema. B.^Br. " Cheese Torula." 



Flocci somewhat branched, woven together into pulvinate red 

 tufts ; spores globose. — Ann. N.H. no. 462. Rahh. F.E. no. 849. 

 Sporendonema casei, Desm. Ann. Sc. Nat. xi.p. 246. Moug. exs. 

 no.^m. Eng.Fl.Y.p.SbO. Bull. t. 604:,/. 2. 



On cheese and rat's dung. 



This has exactly the structure of Tonda, and certainly has not the spores 

 contained in a tube. — M. J. B. We have also found it on old and decaying 

 glue. 



Torula Eriophori. Berk, is Gonatosporium puccinioides. 

 See^nw.iV^.iy.710.236,519. 



Sporendonema Musc^. Fr. Empusa muscce. Cohn. See 

 Saprolegniei, 



