MISCELLANEOUS FUNGI IMPERFECTI 843 



Spicaria rubra (Baquis) Dodge, n. comb. 



Verticillium ruhrum Baquis, Ann. di Ottabnol. 34: 945, 946, 1905, 



Isolated from lesions in cornea, keratomycosis. Not pathogenic to experi- 

 mental animals. 



Chains of ellipsoid spores hyaline, 5 x 15/* in diameter, arranged in ver- 

 ticils. 



Colony whitish velvety, becoming rose (color of peach blossoms). 



HAPLOGRAPHIEAE 



Mycelinm well developed, conidiophores differentiated; richly branched; 

 conidia dark colored, in chains on tips of branches. 



Key to Genera 



Conidiophores erect, septate, each bearing a chain of conidia at its end. 



Catenularia. 

 Conidiophores branched at the tip, each branch bearing a chain of conidia. 



Eaplographiitm. 

 Conidiophores bearing more or less branched chains of conidia. 



Conidiophores dendroid, branched; conidia spherical or ovoid. 



Hormodendron. 

 Conidiophores ending in dichotomously branched conidial chains; conidia cylindric, 



Hormiactella. 



CATENULARIA 



Catenularia Grove in Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 4: 303, 1886. 

 The type species is Psilonia atra Corda. 



Conidiophores erect, septate, each bearing a chain of conidia at the tip; 

 conidia brown, unicellular. 



Catenularia fuli^nea Saito, Jour. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 18: 5: 51, 

 PI. 2, Fig. 4, 1904. 



Reported pathogenic by Joseph, Derm. Woch. 87: 1396-1398, 1928. Iso- 

 lated from excoriated plaques with crusts on hands of boy. Intracutaneous 

 injection produced small abscesses in mouse, from which the organism was 

 recovered. Lesions were experimentally reproduced on skin of man. 



Mycelium dirty greenish color, with pleurogenous spherical spores, 4/x, in 

 diameter. Chlamydospores intercalary, up to 40/* in diameter, with spore 

 chains of elongate spores in hanging drops. 



On maltose agar, gray-brown colonies, becoming cacao brown. 



This species is too poorly described to place definitely in this genus. One 

 suspects that it might have been referred to Dematium with greater propriety. 

 The author may have been misled by the usual figure of Catenularia atra, 

 which shows free conidia in juxtaposition to the conidiophore, so that they 

 might be mistaken for lateral conidia. 



