776 



SPH^RIACEI. 



Pers. Ohs. t. 2,/. 2. Fl Dan. t. 300. JSTees.f. 304. Eng. FL y.p. 

 235. 



In fir woods, amongst leaves, and on furze. 



[Mid. Carolina.] 



Simple, 2-3 inclies high, very even and brittle, at first dirty white, slightly 

 villous, then quite smooth and oven, tan-coloured, sometimes entirely white, 

 ftt length tuberculated with the prominent peritbecia. Head obtuse. — FriU' 



2334. Hypocrea farinosa. B. tfe Br. " Mealy Hypocrea." 



Broadly expanded, white ; perithecia crowded; hyaline, fari- 

 nose ; asci filiform ; sporidia 16, elliptic. — B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. 

 no. 592. 



On fallen branches. Norths. On decayed Stereum. July. 

 Chester. 



Spreading for some inches over decayed wood, on which it forms a thin 

 white coat ; perithecia minute, subglobose, hyaline, nearly collapsed in the 

 centre when dry, growing from a white, mealy eubiculum ; at first delicately 

 cottony. Asci filiform, containing sixteen elliptic sporidia. Older individuals 

 acquire a dull yellowish tinge. — B. (f Br. 



2335. Hypocrea inclusa. B. & Br. "Enclosed Hypocrea," 



Subterranean, parasitic, wholly enclosed ; perithecia astomous, 

 globose, hyaline, confluent ; asci linear ; sporidia right, globose. 

 —B. ^- Br. Ann. N.H. no. 970, 1. 17, f. 23. 



Parasitic in the flesh of Tuber puberulum. Sept. Bristol. 



Occupying the place of the asci in the Tnher ; perithecia globose, hyaline, 

 confluent ; asci short, linear. Sporidia (•00015-0002 in) 'OOSS-'OOS m.m. 



Gen. 336. 



HYPOMYCES, Tul, 



Parasitic on fungi ; mycelium bys- 

 soid ; perithecia small, globose, papil- 

 late ; asci eight spored (rarely 2 or 4), 

 without paraphyses ; sporidia uniseri- 

 ate, lanceolate or elliptic, rarely obtuse, 

 uniseptate, ejected in tendrils. — Tul. 

 Carp. iii. p. 38. 



Mycelium byssoid, colourless or coloured, 

 parasitic on fungi of various kinds. Conidia 

 of two kinds: (1) Microconidia or Conidia 

 proper very copious, colourless, ovate, ellipsoid or cylindrical, simple or sep- 

 tate even aerogenous, at first catenate, fasciculate or solitary ; (2) Chlamy- 

 dosp'ores often fewer, commonly much thicker, variously coloured, echinate, 

 rarely smooth, aero or meso-genous. Perithecia small, globose, with a short 

 rostellum or papillate, smooth or sparsely hairy, immersed in the matrix or 



Fig. 372. 



