CHAETOPSIS MENISPORA. 385 



Tribe 10. Chloridieae. Sacc. 

 CHAETOPSIS. Grev. (fig. 30, p. 358.) 



Hyphae erect, bearing towards the middle irregular whorls 

 of short conidiophores ; conidia cylindrical, hyaline. 



Chaetopsis, Greville, Scot. Crypt. Flora, t. 236 ; Sacc., Syll., 

 iv. p. 324. 



Chaetopsis Wauchii. Grev. (fig. 30, p. 358.) 



Hyphae gregarious, blackish-brown, rather rigid, subulate, 

 with short branchlets near the middle; conidia cylindric- 

 oblong, abundant, hyaline, aggregated in greyish masses. 



Chaetopsis Wauchii, Grev., Scot. Cr. Fl., t. 236. 



Chaetopsis #mea,'Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 1569. 



On rotten trunks, &c. 



MENISPOEA. Pers. (figs. 24 and 29, p. 358.) 



Sterile hyphae creeping, scanty; fertile erect, septate, 

 brown, furnished with pellucid branches towards the middle ; 

 conidia fuso id-falcate, continuous or spuriously septate, hya- 

 line, sometimes (in subg. Eriomene) with a delicate spine at 

 each end ; soon often bound into clusters by mucus. 



Menispora, Pers., Myc. Eur., i. p. 32 ; Sacc., Syll., iv. p. 

 325. 



* Eu-Menispora ; conidia without spinules at the ends. 



Menispora lucida. Corda. (fig. 29, p. 358.) 



Tufts minute, brown ; hyphae erect, lax, unequally septate 

 or nodulose, brown and semipellucid below, paler above ; 

 conidia fusoid, sometimes slightly curved, obtuse, hyaline, 

 4-6 nucleate. 



Menispora lucida, Corda, Fung. Icon., i. p. 16; Saco., Syll., 

 iv. n. 1574. 



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