MUCEDIXES. 



617 



Gen, 253, 



Fig, 288. 



BOTRYOSPORIUBI, Corda. 



Flocci slightly branched, bearing patent 

 branchlets, each of which is surmounted by 

 a few spicules, bearing a head of spores. — 

 Berh. Out!. p. 354. [Fig. 288.) 



1853. Botryosporium pulchrum. Corda. 

 " Beautiful Botryosporium." 



Tufts broadly expanded, lax, white, fari- 

 nose ; flocci simple or dichotomous, lax ; 

 racemes very long, subcylindrical ; heads 

 of spores globose, quinate ; spores ovate, 

 colourless. — Corda, Muced. t. 19. Curr. 

 Micr. Journ. Y.p. 117. Cooke exs. no. 353. 



On herbaceous plants. Oct. 



Forms large white mealy patches. The flocci are very delicate, forming a 

 ■woolly looking inass, and the spores are arranged in four or five compact 

 globular masses at the extremities of short ramuli, which are alternate upon 

 the main threads. — Curr. {Flj. 283.) 



1854. Botryospori-um difiFusum. Corda. " Diffuse Botryo- 



sporium." 



Fertile flocci branched, white ; fertile branchlets scattered, 

 bearing quaternate spores ; spores at length collected at their 

 apices in globular masses. — Corda. Sturm, t. 5. Stachylidium 

 diffusum, Fr. S.M. iii . p. 392. Eng. Fl. v. p. 341. Botrytis diffusa, 

 Grev,t.l2Q,f.2. Wem. Tr.p.72,f.7. 



On decayed herbaceous plants, especially potatoes. 



Forming loose tufts, 3-4 lines high ; branchlets at first bearing quaternate 

 spores ; they are usually crowned with globular masses of globose, or some- 

 times eUiptic spores. — SL.J.B. 



Gen. 254. 



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 ^^t 



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Fig. 289. 



PAFVLASFORA, Preuss. 



Flocci decumbent, jointed, pro- 

 ducing short erect branches, each 

 of which produces a cellular 

 head studded with erect spores, 

 the endochrome of which is bi- 

 partite or quadripartite. — Berh. 

 Outl.p.364:. (Fig. 289.) 



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