56 Transactions British Mycological Society. 



SOME NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI IMPERFECTI 



By Jessie S. Bayliss Elliott D.Sc. Birni. B.Sc. Lond. 



During the last two years (1916-1917) I have found the 

 following ilix species of Fungi Imperfecti ; four of them are 

 new, and two are new records for the British Isles. With 

 the exception of one, which appeared in a culture in the 

 Botanical Laboratory of the Birmingham University, all 

 were growing on decaying wood or fallen pine cones, lying 

 under pine trees in my garden (Tanworth-in-Arden, 

 Warwickshire). 



Aegerita viRiDis Bayliss Elliott. Sp. nov. 



Crowded, granuliform, minute, globose, 0.5 mm. diameter, 

 deep green when fresh ; conidophores profusely dichoto- 

 mously branched so that they sometimes appear fasciculate 

 instead of simple at the base ; conidia formed in branching 

 chains, globose, 4/;. diameter, or frequently subglobose when 

 part of a chain, olive and smooth, (Figs, i, 2, 3, 4). 



On rotten wood, Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire. 



This fungus is very abundant on rotten wood lying in 

 damp places in the district of Tanworth-in-Arden throughout 

 the year. It is distinguished from A. virens Carm. by the 

 crowded habit and the very much smaller conidia. 



Latin diagnosis. Conferta, granuliformis, minuta, globosa, 

 0.5 mm. diametro, recens saturate viridis; hyphis fertilibus 

 profuse dichotomis ut interdum basi quasi fasculatis ; 

 conidiis in catenas ramosas digestis, globosis vel subglobosis, 

 olivaceis, levibus, 4/i diam. Hab. in ligno putrido (Figs. 1-4). 



Clonostachys dichotoma Bayliss Elliott. Sp. n. 



Forming effused tawny patches ; sterile hyphse septate, 

 broad, lo/x diameter, pale ochraceous ; fertile hyphas lax, 

 very much branched,^ repeatedly dichotomous or sometimes 

 trifurcate, colour taw^ny ; branches ascending, 2.5/^ diameter, 

 with few septa, tapering to an elongated thread 20-30/;. long 

 which forms the axis of a compact spike of closely crowded 

 conidia; conidia globose, 2jx colourless, (Figs. 5. 6. 7). 



