brownish or blackish terminal cells, or concolorous 

 black throughout; may be conspicuously constricted at 

 septa. Conidiophores dark fuscous, septate, 1- to 3- 

 celled, simple. 

 In driftwood and other cellulosic material. 



Orhimyces spectabilis binder 



Farlowia 1:404. 1944. 



Conidia staurosporous, multicellular; basal cell globose 

 to subglobose, shining black, 22-42 m in diameter; 

 provided with one or two sets of radiating, fingerlike, 

 septate filaments to 6 /j wide and to 50 p long; each 

 set of radiating filaments join a common dark basal 

 cell; radiating cells may lighten in color from base to 

 apex. 



In driftwood and other cellulosic material. 



Papulospora halima Anastasiou 



Nova Hedwigia 6:266. 1963. 



Hyphae septate, hyaline or brown, anastomosing, to 4.8 ;j 

 in diameter, with hyphal thickenings, chainlike; large 

 masses of hyphae or bulbils formed, subglobose, com- 

 pact, to 870 n in diameter, dark brown or black. 



No spores formed. 



In driftwood and other cellulosic material. 



Periconia prolifica Anastasiou 



Nova Hedwigia 6:260. 1963. 



Conidia single-celled, globose to subglobose, 6-20 lu in 

 diameter, light brown to brown, light red to rust, thick- 

 walled, smooth, catenulate. 



Conidiophores hyaline, septate, simple or branched, to 

 200 p long. 



In driftwood and other cellulosic material. 



Phialophorophoma litoralis Linder 



Farlowia 1:403. 1944. 



Conidia single-celled, hyaline, ellipsoidal or pyriform, 



2.5-4.5 X 1.5-2 /J. endogenous. 

 Conidiophores (phialides) simple or branched, nonseptate, 



hyaline, bottle-shaped, with a collarlike, flaring 



neck. 

 Pycnidia innate, ovoid or ellipsoidal, 110-175 p. 

 In driftwood and other cellulosic material. 



Phoma Saccardo 



Michelia 2:4. 1880. 



Conidia single-celled, ellopsoidal or bacilliform, hya- 

 line, 1.5-7.5 n. 



Pycnidia innate, ellipsoidal or subglobose. 



In Laminaria, Spartina, Juncus, various reeds, drift- 

 wood, and other cellulosic material. 



Stemphylium maritimum Johnson 



Mycologia 48:844. 1956. 



Conidia muriform, ellipsoidal, globose, pyrimidal, or ir- 

 regular, 19-32 X 17-29 ^, dark brown, smooth or 

 verrucose, constricted at septa. 



Conidiophores simple, apiculate. 



In driftwood and other cellulosic material. 



Trichocladium achrasporum (Meyers & Moore) Dixon 



Mycologia 63:237. 1971. 



Syn. Culcitalna achraspora Meyers & Moore 



Am. J. Bot. 47:349. 1960. 

 Conidia 3- to 6-celled, clavate, ovate, or broadly obpyri- 



form, 15-45 X 8-24 p; cells increase in size and darken 



from base to apex, terminal cells dark brown; dark 



cells guttulate; constricted at septa. 

 Conidiophores simple, short or long, septate, hyaline, 



pale yellor or brownish, straight or curved. 

 In driftwood and other cellulosic material. 



Varicosporina ramulosa Meyers & Kohlm. 



Can. J. Bot. 43:916. 1965. 



Conidia staurosporous, cylindrical, multiseptate, several 

 radiating arms usually at right angles to each other, 

 hyaline; most commonly seen as 3 radiating, multicel- 

 lular, cylindrical hyphal strands to 45 n long. 



In Sargassum, Thalassia, and Typha. Absent in colder 

 waters north of New Jersey. 



Zalerion maritimum (Linder) Anastasiou 



Can. J. Bot. 41:1136. 1963. 



Conidia helicosporous, 1-3 times coiled, multiseptate, all 

 cells approximately similar in size, to 14 cells long, oc- 

 casionally longer, deeply constricted at septa, to 12 fi in 

 diameter, fuscous to black. 



Conidiophores simple or once-branched, hyaline, yellow, 

 or pale fuscous, septate. 



In driftwood and other cellulosic material. 



Zalerion varium Anastasiou 



Can. J. Bot. 41:1136. 1963. 



Conidia helicosporous, coiled in 3 planes, single or 

 branched; cells 5.5-13 X 4.5-10.5 n, dark brown to 

 black; clusters to 65 fi in diameter, occasionally grape- 

 like clusters. 



Conidia simple, fuscous to black. 



In driftwood and other cellulosic material. 



Phylum EUMYCOPHYTA 

 Class BASIDIOMYCETES 



Nia vibrissa Moore & Meyers 



Mycologia 51:874. 1959. 



Basidiospores single-celled, ovoid to ellipsoidal, or 

 broadly ellipsoidal, 7.5-15 X 6.5-15 jj. hyaline; provid- 

 ed at one end with a single, gelatinous, filiform append- 

 age to 50/.! long, and 3-5 additional ones similar in 

 shape but slightly shorter at the opposite end. 



Basidiocarp orange to orange-brown. 



In Spartina, driftwood, and other cellulosic material. 



SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 



AINSWORTH, G. C. 



1971. Ainsworth & Bisby's dictionary of the fungi. 6th ed. 

 monw. Mycol. Inst., Kew, Surrey. Engl., 66.3 p. 



Com- 



46 



