348 THE PLANT PHYLA 
Family 140. Excipulaceae. Pycnidia more or less 
disk-shaped, round or elongated, 
black.—Excipula, Discella. 
Order MELANCONIALES. Black-dot Fungi. Conidia de- 
veloped on a stroma. 
Family 141. Melanconiaceae. Including Gloeospor- 
ium, Colletotrichum, Melanconium, 
Pestalozzia, Cylindrosporium, ete. 
Order Montrates. Molds. Conidia developed upon 
separate conidiophores which do not 
form a stroma. 
Family 142. Mucedinaceae. Conidiophores separate, 
hyaline.—Oospora, Monilia, Oidium, 
Sterigmatocystis, Botrytis, Ramu- 
laria. 
Family 143. Dematiaceae. Conidiophores separate, 
dark or black.—Torula, Dematium, 
Fusicladium, Cladosporium, Macro- 
sporium, Cercospora. 
Family 144. Stilbaceae. Conidiophores united into an 
erect, compound, spore-bearing body. 
—Stysanus, Isaria, Graphium. 
Family 145. Tuberculariaceae. Conidiophores united 
into a compound, cushion-like, spore- 
bearing body.—Tuberculina, Fusar- 
ium, Epicoccum. 
Phylum VIII. BRYOPHYTA. The Mossworts 
Chlorophyll-green, small, massive, sexual plants (gameto- 
phytes), producing a small, spore-bearing generation 
(sporophyte) 
Class 18. HEPATICAE. Liverworts. Gametophytes mostly 
bilateral, often thalloid, creeping; 
sporophytes usually splitting and 
containing elaters. (Sp. about 4,000.) 
Order Ricctates. The Riccias. Sporophyte globose, 
sessile, without columella or elaters. 
Family 1. Ricciaceae. Small thallose plants, float- 
ing or terrestrial.—Riccia. 
