452 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



lead at the apex ; conidia falcate -vermicular, 2- many-septate, 

 subhyaline. 



Atractium, Link, Berlin Mag., iii. p. 10 (1809); Sacc., 

 Syll., iv. p. 599. 



Distinguished from other compound stemmed, more or less 

 club-shaped genera by the slender, pointed, elongated, many- 

 septate conidia. 



Atractium flammeum. Berk. & Eav. (fig. 33, p. 397.) 

 Stroma cylindric-clavate, obtuse, shortly stipitate, 1 mm. 

 high, reddish flame-colour ; whitish below, pruinose ; conidia 

 fusoid, curved, both ends acute, hyaline, 4-6 septate, not 

 -constricted at the septa, 7075 //.long ; sporophores elongated, 

 septate, 3 5 //, thick. 



Atractium flammeum. Berk. &Eav., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 757; 

 Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 2860. 



On bark of living willow, &c. 



Series IT. Phaeostilbeae. Sacc. 



Sect. 1. Amerosporae. Sacc. 

 SPOEOCYBE. Fries, (fig. 19, p. 442.) 



Stem consisting of a fascicle of hyphae, fibrous, apex 

 capitate and bearing the conidia ; capitulum globose or 

 -elongated ; conidia subglobose or ellipsoid, brown. 



Sporocybe, Fries, emended by Bonorden, Hdbk., p. 138 ; 

 Sacc., Syll., iv. p. 604. 



Somewhat resembling Periconia in habit, but in the latter 

 the stem consists of a single hypha, and not of a bundle of 

 hyphae as in the present genus. 



Sporocybe byssoides. Bon. (fig. 19, p. 442.) 

 Stems gregarious, subulate, 1 mm. high, rigid, blackish- 

 grey, springing from a common compact base ; heads minute, 

 blackish-olive; conidiophores paler, divergent; conidia 

 obovate, 4-6 x 3-4 //,; olive, 1-guttulate. 



Sporocybe byssoides, Bonorden, Hdbk., p. 138, f. 217 ; Sacc., 

 Syll., 2877 & 1310. 



On stems of herbaceous plants ; branches of ivy (Hedera\ 

 box (Biww), &c. J k 



