476 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Volutella arundinis, Desm., Obs. Crypt., 1830, p. 12 ; Sacc., 

 Syll., iv. n. 3261. 



On sheaths of Phragmites communis. 



Volutella melaloma. B. & Br. 



Sporodochia orange-colour, fringed with black, septate 

 cilia ; conidia fusiform, often slightly curved, appendiculate, 

 8 X 4/t. 



Volutella melaloma, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist, n. 496, t. xi. 

 f. 3 ; Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 3252. 



On leaves of a species of Carex. 



Volutella festucae. Sacc. 



Sporodochium sessile, epiphyllous, hemispherical, woolly, 

 minute, lax, fugacious, whitish rose-colour ; setae subdistant, 

 erect, simple, acute, continuous, hyaline ; conidia cylindrical, 

 curved, ends obtuse, pale rose-colour, 56 x 2 /t. 



Volutella festucae, Sacc. Syll., iv. n. 3262. 



Psilonia festucae, Lib., Exs., n. 286. 



On leaves of Festuca. 



Sect. 2. Didymosporae. Sacc. 

 ENDODESMIA. B. & Br. (emend.) (fig. 12, p. 442.) 



Sporodochium subglobose, conidiophores very short and 

 forming a compact basal stratum, each bearing an erect 

 chain of uniseptate conidia ; sterile hyphae numerous, elon- 

 gated, radiating from the base, slender, continuous. 



Endodesmia, Berk. & Broome, Ann. Nat. Hist., 1871, p 16 ; 

 Sacc., Syll., iv. p. 691. 



An examination of the type specimen shows that the 

 spores are not at all appendiculate. Differs from Volutella 

 in the long chains of 1- septate conidia. 



Endodesmia glauca. B. & Br. (fig. 12, p. 442.) 

 Sporodochium about 1 line high and across, glaucous; 

 conidiophores very short, rod-like, conidia elliptical, both 

 ends rather acute, 1 -septate, smooth, almost or quite hyaline, 

 catenulate, chains more or less erect ; sterile hyphae, radi- 

 ating on all sides, very slender, rather wavy, 200 X 2 /*, con- 

 tinuous, almost hyaline. 



