382 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



tip ; branchlets turgid at the apex, each bearing 2-4 rather 

 long chains of conidia ; conidia globose, black. 



Haplographium saponis, Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 1499. 



Penicillium saponis, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1913, 

 t. 3, f. 3. 



On soap. 



Haplographium olivaceum. C. &M. (fig. 12, p. 358.) 

 Somewhat effused, dark olive, nearly black ; threads erect, 



septate, simple, dark, slightly clavate and paler at the apex ; 



conidia narrowly elliptical, catenulate in simple chains, 



1214 X 4 p., pale olive, forming a subglobose, rather lax 



head. 



Haplographium olivaceum, Cke. & Mass., Grevillea, vol. xvi. 



p. 11. 



On rotten wood. 



DEMATIUM. Pers. (fig. 15, p. 358.) 



Sterile hyphae scanty, creeping; fertile hyphae erect, 

 simple or sparingly branched, septate, producing lateral 

 chains of conidia. Conidia sphaeroid or ellipsoid, continuous, 

 brown, sometimes connected by a short isthmus. 



Dematium, Fries, Syst. Myc., iii. p. 365 ; Sacc., Syll., iv. 

 p. 308. 



Sporodum, Corda, Ic. Fung., i. p. 18. 



Dematium hispidulum. Fr. (fig. 15, p. 358.) 



Tufts minute, hemispherical, setulose, black; hyphae 

 simple or sparingly branched, septate, the upper naked 

 portion obtuse or often acute, brownish; conidia globose, 

 dingy ochraceous, at length minutely asperulose, the terminal 

 one largest and darkest coloured, 10-14 p. diameter. 



Dematium Mspidulum, Fr., S. Myc., iii. p. 365; Sacc., Syll., 

 iv. n. 1500. 



Sporodum conopleoides, Corda, Ic. Fung., i. p. 18, f. 247, iii. 

 f. 22. 



Conoplea hispidula, Pers., Sym., p. 235. 



Dematium graminum, Libert. 



On decayed leaves of Arundo donax and various grasses. 



