SPOKOCYBE. 453 



Sporocybe brassicaecola. Sacc. 



Stem black, sometimes forked ; head globose, at first grey, 

 then black ; conidia grey, irregular, more or less attenuated 

 at the ends, 510 /A long. 



Sporocybe brassicaecola, Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 2878. 



Periconia brassicaecola, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1452, 

 t. 1, f. 3. 



Forming dense black patches on the inside of decayed 

 cabbage-stalks. 



Sporocybe cuneifera. Sacc. 



Stem attenuated upwards, brownish, simple or sparsely 

 divided by the separation of the hyphae into two or more 

 bundles from being firmly compacted below; heads ovate; 

 conidia obversely cuneate or narrowly obovate, pale greenish- 

 brown, 10-11 x 3-4 p.. 



Sporocybe cuneifera, Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 2879. 



Stilbum cuneiferum, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1451 1 

 t. 1, f. 2. 



On rotten cabbage-stalks. 



Sporocybe calycioides. Fr. 



Black, 4 mm. high; mycelium effused, forming spots; 

 head subglobose, compact ; stem slender, subulate, sometimes 

 striate, sometimes flexuous. 



Sporocybe calycioides, Fries, Syst., Myc., iii. p. 342 ; Sacc., 

 Syll., iv. n. 2855. 



Periconia calycioides (Fr.), Berk., Outl., p. 343. 



On dead herbaceous stems, trunks of beech, &c. 



Sporocybe atra. Sacc. 



Black. Scattered or gregarious, j J mm. high ; stem 

 erect, opaque, rather rigid ; head ovoid, with spreading, short 

 hyaline conidiophores ; conidia oblong-fusiform, olive, 

 10-12 fj. long. 



Sporocybe atra, Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 2891. 



Graphium atrum, Desmaz., XVI. Not., p. 343 (1848.) 



On dry leaves of Holcits mollis and species of Festuca. 



Sporocybe Phillipsii. Sacc. 



Minute ; stem erect, cylindrical, black ; head globose ; 

 conidia globose, brown, verruculose, 7-10 p. diameter. 



