NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 165 



obovata. Flocci sterilcs exiniie spiraliter contort! £equc ac infra 

 fertiles ; hi quidem sfepe usque ad apiceui spirales. 



GLIOCLADIUM Corda (1840). 



Stem erect, septate, penicillate above, branches and branchlets 

 septate, crowned by a common gelatinous head. Spores acro- 

 genous, irregularly heaped together, simple, with a gelatinous coat. 



Differs from Peiiicillinni in the spores being produced singly, not 

 in chains, but remaining united in the mucous substance simul- 

 taneously excreted. 



61. Gliocladimn jienicillioides Cord. Ic. Fung. iv. 31, pi. vii. 

 fig. 92 (1840); Bonord. Handb. p. 94 (1851). — (?) renicillimii. 

 sociniii Sacc. Syll. Pyr. p. 468, stib Hypowi/c. aureo-nit. (1888) ; cfr. 

 Plowright, Grev. xi. 49, pi. 156, figs, b—d (1882). 



Tufts minute, punctiform, white ; stems erect, flexuous, thick- 

 ened above, white ; branches opposite, branchlets whorled, quator- 

 nate, crowded ; head of spores globose, white ; spores 5^ /x long, 

 conglutinate, oblong, surrounded by a thick gelatinous stratum. 

 (Corda, l. c). (Tab. 256, f. 9). 



On the hymenium of an old Stcreum (probably Idrsutuw], 

 Trickley Coppice (Wk.), Sept. Stems about 120-180 /x high 

 (Corda, 220- — 380 /i) ; the gelatinous heads of neighbouring stems 

 unite, even 15 — 20 being thus bound together with one large 

 common head. The resemblance of the (jrliocladiHm to the Penicil- 

 liiwi is striking, but I could not ascertain that the spores were ever in 

 chains in my specimens, and the abundant gelatinous secretion of the 

 former is a marked feature, which Mr. Plowright informs me he did 

 not notice in the conidia of the Hypomyces figured in ' Grevillea ' 

 (I. c). I could not perceive in my spores the gelatinous coat which 

 Corda figures ; they measured 5 /x x 2 /x, and were extremely 

 abundant. The stems w^ere thrice bi-tri-chotomous, the branchlets 

 being parallel and appressed. 



62. PeniciUium subtile Berk. Handb. p. 603. Var. ramosius 

 mihi. 



Hypliis sterilibus repentibus ; fertilibus erectis, saepe apice 

 ternatis, paucis infra apicem ramis instructis ; conidiis in catenulas 

 curtas quaternis-octonis connexis, hyalinis, crasse ellipticis, utrinque 

 apiculatis, 16-20 /x x 10 /x. 



In ligno putri, " Hampton-in-Arden " (AVk.). Omnino candi- 

 dissimum et teuerrimum. 



SPICAEIA Harz (1871). 



Hypha3 erect, vcrticillately branched. Conidia in lax apical 

 chains, ovoid or oblong. 



Distinguished from PeniciUium by the divergent chains of spores. 



63. Sjiicaria elci/(nis Harz. Hyphomyc. 51 (1871) ; Sacc. Fu)ig. 

 Yen. V. 194 (1876)'; Mich. ii. 359 (1881); Fung. Ital. 895 (1881). 

 — Penicilliitiii c'hyans Corda, Icon. ii. 18, pi. xi. fig. 74 (1838). 



