362 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Torula expansa, Pers., Myc. Eur., i. p. 22 ; Sacc., Syll., iv. 

 n. 1231. 



Hormiscium expansum, Kunz., Myc., Heft i. p. 13, t. 1, f. 7. 



On herbaceous stems, rotten wood, &c. 



The conidia are more or less quadrate, and may possibly 

 be only joints of an elongated conidiurn, slightly attenuated 

 at each end, and if so, will not properly belong to the 

 present genus, but to Hormiscium. 



Torula herbarum. Link. 



Tufts effused, minutely velvety, olivaceous then black 

 with olive tinge ; sterile hyphae creeping, smoky, septate ; 

 fertile short, erect, soon passing into the elongated, simple 

 or branched chains of conidia. Conidia olive, subglobose, 

 6-7 /A diameter. 



Torula herbarum, Link, sp. pi. Fungi, i. p. 128 ; Sacc., 

 Syll., iv. n. 1230. 



On decayed stems of various herbaceous plants. 



Torula nucleata. Cke. 



Forming small, irregular, thinly effused, blackish patches, 

 mycelium creeping, thread with an attenuated hyaline base, 

 above resolved into 6-8 subglobose concatenate conidia, 

 which remain for a long time united ; conidia dark brown, 

 with a large oil globule, 10-12 p. diameter. 



Torula nucleata, Cke., Grev., xvi. p. 79. 



On herb stems. 



** On Monocotyledons. 



Torula graminis. Desm. 



Tufts very minute, subrotund or slightly elongated ; at 

 first brown, then blackish ; chains of conidia simple, erect ; 

 conidia globose, equal, blackish, 5-8 p. diameter. 



Torula graminis, Desmaz., Ann. Sci. Nat., 1834, ii. p. 72, 

 t. ii. f. 6; Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 1246. 



On leaves of grasses and sedges. 



Torula rhizophila. Corda. 



Tufts oblong, minute, then confluent and forming lines, 

 black ; hyphae simple or bifid, short, tinged brown ; conidia, 



