). FLORA OF HALIFAX. 297 



A. Yirens, Link. On decaying leaves, El. Pk. Wd. 3 1892 ! 



A. candidus. Link- On dead agaric, and on slime fungus 

 (Avcyvia cinerea), X. J). VVd., igoo! H.T.S. 



A. flavus, Link. On decaying wood-work, warehouse, Hx. — 



Penicillium glaucum, Link. Very common on almost all 

 kinds of damp or decaying organic substances, indoors 

 or out ; even found forming a felt on the surface of 

 liquid in a dye vat. It is the fungus which imparts a 

 pale blue-green colouration to household provisions, 

 neglected or kept in too damp or close a place. Its 

 conidia are ever present in the atmosphere in more or 

 less quantity. 



More properly belonging, with Aspergillus, to the Peris- 

 poviacea division of Ascomycetes, as both are known to 

 produce ascophores occasional lv under favourable 

 conditions. 



P. bicolor, Fr. On the husks of germinating acorn, LI. Pk. 

 VVd., Nov. 1894 — J-T.A. 



P. candidum, Link. On rotting, wicker skip, Pck. Wd. — J.N. 

 Not uncommon in woods on decaying leaves, fungi, etc. 



Acremonium alternatum, Link. On dead leaves, Cwl. Wd., '92! 



A. Yerticillatum, Link. On dead stump, Elland — H.T.S. ! 

 Rhinotrichum repens, Preuss. On dead stump, Fixby ! 

 Sporotrichum lseticolor, Cke. & Mass. On the bark of a 



decaying stump, Catty Well CI. — J.T.A. ! First record 



— Grev.j xx., p. 33, 1891. cellars. 



S. sulphureum, Grev. On old baskets, corks, etc., in damp 

 S. chlorinum, Link. On damp wood, El. Pk. Wd. — Nat., 



June 1894. 

 Botrytis Yirella, Fr. On dead furze, Skircoat Moor, Nov. 



I,s 97 — H.T.S. ; on damp wood, X. D. Wd. — H.T.S. ! 



B. vulgaris, Fr. Common on a great variety of decaying 



vegetation in woods, gardens, greenhouses, etc. 

 Var. plebeja, Fres. On decaying oak cotyledon, Pck. 

 Wd.— J.N. 

 B. cana, Kze. & Schum. On sycamore bark, Sun Wd. ! 

 B. Yera, (Berk.) Fr. Hx., on Polypovus versicolor — Boltvii, 



Tab. 132, f. 3. (Mucor botrytis). 



B. cinerea, Pers. On decaying leaves, stems, fungi, etc. — J.N. ! 



Var. sclerotiophila, Sacc. Growing from sclerotia 



formed on decaying herbaceous stems, leaves, etc., 



in woods: H. Gr., Mdgh., Cr. Dn., El. Pk., etc. 



