198 . NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 
Fr. Syst, Mye. iii. 8392, from the ae appears to be very 
similar; whether identical or not I cannot say, but, even if so, the 
name must be changed, as there are miseady two plants called 
Verticillium agaricinum (Corda, Icon. ii. fig. 68; and Cooke, Grev. 
i. 184 
ARTHROBOTRYS Corva (1840). { 
Mucedineo Hyphe erect, simple, sel Saeed nodulose ; nodules 
warted, Dearing, clusters of spores. Spores didymous, apiculate at 
the base. Corda, Flor. Mue. p. 48. 
Piscagiiihied from Gonatobotrys by cri dee spores. 
23. Arthrobotrys oligospora Fres. Bei r Myk. p. 18, pl. 3, 
figs. 1-8 (1850); Kee aipe Handb. p. 505" ass De es & Wor 
Beitr. ser. 3, pp. 29-82, pl. 6, figs. 8-23 (18 
Fertile hyphe ieee "aise, hyaline, Soc ae septate, simple, 
bearing at intervals, or often at the top only, swellings covered with 
little warts, on each of which ig an obovate, uniseptate, enucleate 
spore, with a very short pedicel. 2 ees 36 p» long (Fres.), 28-34 p- 
x 19-22 » (mihi). (Tab. 246, f. 
n a tuft of Sphagnum, ar to a patch of Sordaria jimeti, 
— (Wk.), April. Stem about 200-800 ce hig 
a 
under which I was growing both S. jimiseda and s. If, 
therefore, it is a conidial stage of one of ei the s Dpability is 
that it proceeded from the former. Coemans and Saccardo unite 
this with A. superba Corda; but it differs tot only in the small 
eiiber of spores, but also in their much la Soe size, and, if 
Corda’ s drawing (J. c. pl. 21) be correct, in their 
‘ PRISMARIA Preuss See 
Mucedineous. Stem erect, simple, continuous. Spores apical, 
eae continuous (?) or indistinctly setate: prismatic (Sturm., 
Vi. 
I have e slightly altered the generic character, so as to include 
the species described below 
24. 
rismaria furcata, s , n.—P. sparsa vel gregaria, alba; 
€ 
rotundatis, sursum sensim oe “byaln inconspicue multi- 
septatis, multinucleatis, 60-100 p Tab. 246, f. 4). 
n decaying wood, Sutton Wh) November. Preuss (I. ¢.) 
; hi 
t. 
spores, I should not ee to form a new genus, Prismina, for 
the reception of this 
t apbpor, a joint; (2érpus, a bunch of grapes. 
