320 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Botrytis galanthina. Sacc. 



Hyphae with short branches towards the tip, umbor- 

 brown, branchlets incrassated at the tip ; conidia obovate, 

 borne on elongated spicules, 15-18 //, long. 



Botrytis galanthina, Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 705. 



Polyactis galanthina, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1385, 

 t. viii. f. 8. 



On bulbs of snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis). 



OVULAEIA. Sacc. (fig. 8, p. 274.) 



Parasites. Hyphae subsimple, erect, more or less dis- 

 tinctly furnished with minute tooth-like projections near 

 the apex that bear the conidia. Conidia one-celled, colourless, 

 solitary, or rarely in short chains. 



Ovularia, Sacc., Mich., ii. p. 17; Sacc., Syll., iv. p. 139. 



Closely allied to Samularia t but distinguished by the con- 

 tinuous conidia. 



* On Dicotyledons. 



Ovularia lychnicola. Mass. 



Spots often rather large and numerous, subcircular, 

 ochraceous; fertile hyphae short, simple, erect,, tufted; 

 conidia cylindrical, attenuated slightly at both ends, 

 colourless, 12-15 x 4 p. 



Bamularia lychnicola, Cke., Grrev., xiv. p. 40; Sacc., Syll., 

 iv., n. 993. 



On living leaves of Lychnis diurna. 



Ovularia lapsanae. Mass. 



Spots at first inconspicuous then becoming dry and pale ; 

 fertile hyphae tufted, simple or with a few short branchlets, 

 30-50 x 3 p., not septate ; conidia cylindrical, rather 

 attenuated at both ends, 10-15 x 3-5-4 p, in short chains. 



Bamularia lampsanae, Sacc., Mich., ii. p. 549 Sacc. Syll., 

 iv. n. 1008. 



On under surface of living leaves of nipplewort (Lapsana 

 communis). 



Ovularia destructiva. Mass. 

 Parasitic. Erumpent; forming broadly effused patches; 



