380 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Tribe 8. Haplograpliieae. (fig. 20, p. 358.) 

 CATENTJLARIA, Grove. 



Hyphae erect, fuscous, septate, bearing a chain of conidia 

 at the apex ; conidia continuous, fuscous. 



Catenularia, Grove, in Sacc., Syll., iv. p. 303. 



Differs from the genus Cladotrichum in the non-septate 

 conidia. 



Catenularia simplex. Grove. 



Effused, black ; sterile hyphae elongated, creeping, wavy, 

 equal, fuscous, septa rare, somewhat branched, 34 p. thick ; 

 fertile hyphae gregarious, erect, although sometimes bent 

 or recurved, yet rigid, simple, 100-200 X 3-4 /*, fuscous, 

 septate, inflated here and there, or cupulate upwards, the 

 cups deeper in colour, and from the centre of the apical one 

 originates a simple, rigid, erect chain of conidia ; chain con- 

 sisting of 2-10 conidia, obovate or obconic, truncate at both 

 ends, olivaceous then fuscous, 10 x 5-6 //,. 



Catenularia simplex, Grove, hi Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 1482. 



On rotten wood. 



HAPLOGEAPHIUM. B. & Br. (fig. 12, p. 358.) 



Sterile hyphae creeping, scanty; fertile branches erect, 

 septate, brown, bearing a head of very short or elongated 

 branchlets at the summit, these in turn bear chains of simple, 

 coloured conidia. 



Haplographium, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 1859, p. 6; 

 Sacc., Syll., p. 304. 



Somewhat resembling Penicillium in general habit and 

 structure, but dark-coloured. In some species the terminal 

 branchlets bearing the chains of conidia are very short, in 

 others more or less elongated. 



Haplographium delicatuluxn. B. & Br. 

 Forming dark olive patches; fertile hyphae erect, dark 

 olive-brown, simple or very rarely branched; sterigmata 



