488 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Epicoccum neglectum. Desm. 



Spots none or obsolete, sporodochia epiphyllous, spot-like, 

 scattered, jet-black; stroraa hemispherical, brown or black- 

 ish, formed of very short, septate hyphae ; conidia globose, 

 blackish-brown, reticulated, 12-16 p. diameter, furnished with 

 a very short, hyaline, obconic, truncate pedicel. 



Epicoccum neglectum, Desm., Ann. Sci. Nat., xvii. p. 95; 

 Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 3483. 



On fading leaves of grasses, sedges, orange, &c. 



Epicoccum diversisporum. Preuss. 



Minute, gregarious, seated ou rosy spots ; stroina globose, 

 blackish-purple, purple inside, irregularly cellular, vericu- 

 lose; conidia crowded, of various size, angularly globose, 

 not reticulated, warted, fuscous, warts darker, pedicel 

 white. 



Epicoccum diversisporum, Preuss, in Linn., xxv. p. 740 ; Sacc., 

 Syll., iv. n. 3502. 



On leaves of Phragmites, Carex, &c. 



Epicoccum herbarum. Corda. 



Very minute, gregarious; stroma globose, purple, pale 

 flesh-colour inside, cells six-angled ; conidia angularly 

 globose, reticulated, ^ fuscous, 20-23 p. diameter, areolae 

 darker; pedicel conical, short, immersed in the stroma, 

 tinged fuscous, diaphanous. 



Epicoccum herbarum, Corda, Icon. Fung., i. p. 5, f. 58 ; Sacc., 

 Syll., iv. n. 3489. 



On herbaceous stems, leaves, &c. 



Epicoccum micropus. Corda. 



Sporodochia gregarious, effused, black; stroma subglobose, 

 then depressed, reddish-brown; basidia projecting, clavate, 

 transversely septate, fuscous; conidia angularly globose, 

 base depressed, sessile or very shortly pedicellate, glabrous, 

 fuscous, 22-23 p. diameter. 



Epicoccum micropus, Corda, Icon. Fung., iii. p. 32, f. 82; 

 Sacc., Syll., iv. n. 3492. 



On rotten leaves and stems, also on Lactarius. 

 Epicoccum equiseti. Berk. 



Sporodochia arranged in lines in the grooves of the stem ; 

 conidia minute, smooth, black with a blood-red tinge. 



