HOKMISCIUM. 363 



globose, equal, clear brown, translucent, 8-10 //, diameter, 

 very soon free from each other. 



Torula rhizophila, Corda, Icon., p. 8, t. 11, f. 127; Sacc., 

 Syll., iv. n. 1249. 



On rhizomes of Carex arenaria, Phragmites, Triticum repens, 

 and other grasses and sedges. 



*** On paper. 



Torula chartarum. Corda. 



Tufts effused, indeterminate, black ; mycelium white, 

 branched, septate, white; fertile hyphae hyaline, short, 

 nodulose ; chains of conidia long, branched, wavy or erect ; 

 conidia elliptical, smooth, brown, 8-9 x 5-6 /*. 



Torula chartarum, Corda, Ic. Fung., iv. p. 24, f. 78 ; Sacc., 

 Syll., n. 1260. 



On damp decaying paper. 



II. TracJiytora. Sacc. 

 Conidia rough. 



Torala asperula. Sacc. 



Tufts effused, sooty, velvety; sporophores cylindrical, 

 simple or forked, 30-33 X 4 /x, ascending ; conidia globose, 

 6-7 p. diam., in chains, sooty-brown, minutely rough. 



Torula asperula, Sacc., Mich., ii. p. 560; Sacc., Syll., iv. 

 n. 1269. 



On damp rotting paper. 



HOKMISCIUM. Kunze. (fig. 9, p. 313.) 



Hyphae short or almost obsolete, or scarcely distinct from 

 the conidia. Conidia catenulate, chains not readily breaking 

 up, cuboid or globose-cuboid, brown. 



Hormiscium, Kunze, Myk., Heft i. p. 12; Sacc., Syll., iv. 

 p. 263. 



Very closely allied to the genus Torula, in fact the only 

 difference consists in the chains of conidia not readily 

 breaking up in the present genus. 



