284 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Monilia fructigena, Pers., Syn., p. 693; Sacc., Syll., iv. 

 n. 157. 



On various fruits. Common. 

 Forming dense tomeniose tufts. 



Monilia caespitosa. Purton. 



Hyphae tufted, branched in a racemose manner; chains 

 of globose conidia terminal and lateral. _ 

 Monilia caespitosa, Purton. 

 Monilia racemosa, Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 163. 

 On putrid substances. 

 A doubtful species that has not been seen of late years. 



Monilia pminosa. C. & M. 



Forming a broadly effused thin white pruinose stratum, 

 hyphae flexuous, elongated, septate, 10-12 p. thick, irregu- 

 larly branched; conidia in short chains, subglobose or 

 elliptical, smooth, hyaline, 14-15 x 12 p.. 



Monilia pruinosa, Cke. and Mass., Grev., xvi. p. 78. 



On fading leaves of Caladium. 



CYLINDEIUM. Bon. (fig. 3, p. 274.) 



Hyphae very short, hardly distinct from the conidia. 

 Conidia concatenate, cylindrical, elongated, ends obtuse, 

 colourless or brightly coloured. Patches thin, plane, slightly 

 pulverulent. 



Cylindrium, Bonordan, Hdbk. Myk., p. 34; emended by 

 Sacc., Mich., ii. p. 14 ; Sacc., Syll., 36. 



Distinguished by the scanty mycelium and the elongated 

 cylindrical, concatenate conidia with blunt ends, this dif- 

 ference in shape of conidia distinguishes between the 

 present genus and Fusidium, where the conidia are fusiform 

 (spindle-shaped). 



Cylindrium Cordae. Sacc. (fig. 3, p. 274.) 

 Tufts white, very thin, slightly pulverulent ; conidia cylin- 

 drical, tips abruptly truncate, colourless, 28-33 x 3-4 p. 

 Cylindrium Cordae, Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 169. 

 On dead oak leaves. Not uncommon. 

 Forming exceedingly thin white pileus on the leaf. 



