HYPHOMYCETACEAE 443 



Fusarium pannosum, Massee, Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 

 117. Sporodochia erumpent, 5-10 cm. diam., suborbicular, 

 often confluent, bright vermilion, fleshy, subgelatinous, 

 compact ; hyphae creeping, densely interwoven, branched, 

 sparingly septate, 4-5 ^ thick, hyaline ; conidiophores 

 sparingly branched, branchlets fusoid ; conidia fusoid, 

 falcate, ends acute, 3-septate, 35-38 x 5 /*. 



Fusarium limonis, Briosi, Act. Staz. Chim. Agrar. Roma, 

 1878. Sporodochia gregarious, confluent, white; hyphae 

 spreading, branched, septate ; conidiophores erect or 

 ascending, oppositely or alternately branched conidia 

 very variable, acrogenous, continuous, or septate at the 

 middle, or 2-3-septate, oblong or fusiform, slightly curved, 

 attenuated, slightly constricted at the septa, hyaline, 26- 

 27x2-4-2-8 fj.. 



Chaetostroma, Corda. Sporodochium discoid or pul- 

 vinate, black, bordered with black, rigid hyphae; conidia 

 ovoid or subfusiform, rarely subglobose, borne solitary 

 at the tips of slender conidiophores, rarely in chains. 



Chaetostrcma cliviae, Oud., Ct. Rend. Acad. Sc. Pays- 

 J3as, 1896, p. 226. Sporodochia innate on large yellow 

 spots, inordinate, shining black, orbicular, elliptical or 

 irregular in shape, up to mm. long, finally with a central 

 opening or a longitudinal slit; surrounded by black, 

 pointed, septate, more or less flexuous hairs about 210X5 

 H ; conidia cylindrical, ends rounded, continuous, hyaline, 

 23-28 X 5-7 p.. 



