Pl.cell. aph. 8. NEMATOMYCEZ. 174. Virgaria. 553 
1. Virgaria nigra. Black brushmould. 
Thali: in tufts, spreading, black, crowded. 
Botrytis nigra, Link in Berl. Mag. 3, 14. 
Virgaria nigra, Esenbeck Syst. 2, 14. 
On felled trees. 
2. Virgaria olivacea. Olive brushmould. 
Thali in tufts, spreading, very thin, olive-green, rather 
distant. 
Botrytis olivacea, Link in Berl. Mag. 3, 14. 
On felled trees. 
IX. 175. BOTRYTIS. Micheli. Grape-mould. 
Thalli flocklike, upright, generally entangled at the bot- 
tom, much branched; branches corymbose; sporidia glo- 
bular, collected about the ends of the branches. 
Botrytis allochroa. Shotten grapemould. 
Thalli in small tufts, upright, white afterwards reddish ; 
sporidia whitish. 
Botrytis allochroa, Link in Berl. Mag. 3, 16. 
On dead stalks; autumn. 
X. 176. STACHYLIDIUM. Link. Ear-mould. 
Thal flocklike, ascending, entangled at bottom; twigs 
whirled at top, short, blunt; sporidia globular, crowded 
about the whirls. 
1. Stachylidium bicolor. Two-coloured earmould. 
Thalli in tufts, white, the barren lying down, greenish- 
grey; the fertile upright, not branched at top. 
Dematium verticillatum, Persoon Syn. 694. 
Stachylidium bicolor, Link in Berl. Mag. 3,15. 
On the stem of herbaceous plants. 
2. Stachylidium terrestre. Land earmould. 
Thalli in tufis, spreading, white; the barren lying down, 
few; the fertile upright, branched. 
Monilia racemosa, Persoon Syn. 692. 
Aspergillus terrestris ceespitosus ac ramosus albus, Micheli N. Gen. Pl. 
213. 
Stachylidium terrestre, Link in Berl. Mag. 3, 15. 
On the ground. 
