CLASSIFICATION OF THE ASPERGILLACE^E. 297 



Subjoined is a 



SYNOPSIS OF THE GENERA OF ASPERGILLACE/E ACCORDING 

 TO ED. FISCHER (II.). 



(A) Carpoasci with mostly pseudoparenchymatic Peridium, 

 uniformly filled with Asci. 



(a) Carpoascus cervicate or with protrusive papillus . . Microascus 



(b) Carpoascus acervicate : 



(a) Peridium with spirally coiled appendices . . Maynusia. 

 (j3) Peridium with straight hairs or a shaggy coat. 



1 Peridium of more or less carbonaceous nature . Cephalosthea. 



2 Peridium membraneous ..... Aphanoascus. 

 (7) Peridium devoid of appendix : 



1. No conidia, merely breeding-cells . . . Anuriopris. 



2. Conidia formed in chains directly on the my- 



celi urn, with endogenous spores as secondary 



organs of fructification .... Thielavia. 



3. Conidia on conidiophores with terminal swell- 



ing, studded with numerous simple or 



branched sterigmata, in chains . . . Asperyillus. 



4. Conidia on sympodial branched conidiophores 



in chains ....... Allescheria. 



5. Conidia on branched conidiophores . . Penicillium. 



(7>) Carpoasci rounded or pear-shaped, with dense, stratiform 

 peridium. Asci mingled with capillitium threads. Thecarpoasci 

 undergo dehiscence by opening at the crown or decay of the 

 upper part of the peridium. 



(a) Asci with dentate projections, spores with equa- 



torial fillet ........ Emericella. 



(b) Asci ellipsoidal, with blunt projection at the 



crown, spores with fine, hairy spines . . . Amylocarpus. 



(c) Carpoascus nodular, stalked, with thick peridium, 



proceeding from sterile veins separating the 



asciferous network inside the carpoascus . . Pcnicillopsis. 



Not to be confounded with this "natural" family of Asper- 

 gillacecv is the group established under that name, as a sub- 

 division of the Mucedinece (see p. 7, vol. ii.), solely on the basis of 

 the structure of the conidiophores. To this group applies the 

 following synopsis, differing somewhat from that of LINDAU (II.). 



(^1) Conidiophores invariably distended at the apex, in the 

 form of a bladder or globule : 



I. Conidiophore unbranched : 



(a) Chains of conidia formed merely at the apex 

 of the sterigma : 

 (a) Simple unbranched sterigmata 



(|8) Branched sterigmata, with occasional 



Aspergillus Ci- 

 tromyces (see 

 below). 



Ster igmatocystis. 



simple forms 

 (b) Chains of conidia, forming at the apex and 



below the septum Dimargiris. 



2. Conidiophores with dichotomous branchings . . Dis-pira. 



