NEW OR NOTEWORTHY FUNGI. 199 
DACTYLELLA, gen. nov.} 
Mucedinea, macronemea, saprophila. Hyphe fertiles erectius- 
cule, simplices. Spore elongate, solitarie acrogene, pluriseptate. 
a to Dactylium, bat differing in the solitary spores. 
ella minuta, sp. n. — D. sparsa, alba; hyphis 
fertilibus cylindricis, pees hyalinis, simplic ibus, apice in 
sporas singulas, yar a perfecte hyalinas, multiseptatas, eva- 
dentibus. (Tab. 246, f. 6). 
On dead ee ira (Wk.), February. Stem 120-150p high; 
spores 60-70 » x 14-15 p, with 6-8 septa. This species closely 
resembles Fees ied candidum Nees (Bonord. Handb. p. 82, fig. 189), 
but differs in the form of the spores, if Bonorden’s figure be correct, 
and in their constant position as a continuation of the stem. It is 
certainly not congeneric with Dactylaria purpurella Sace. (Fung. 
Ital. fig. 8). 
.26. Bispora pusilla Sace. Mich. i.78; Fung. Ital. fig. 21 (1877). 
“Kffused, black; hyphex short, filiform, ascending, pallid; 
conidia arising from the apex, rei into rather long, rarely 
branched chains, ovoid, rounded at each end, not truncate, 6-8 p 
X 8°5-4°5 p, in the middle os and opaquely 1-septate, not or 
hardly constricted, dark brown.”’—Mich. 
n hard dry wood, Sutton (Wk.), Seka 51st. a 
om B. monilioides by its smaller and not truncate spor 
*Sporodesmium § lobatum B. & Br. ‘ Handbook,’ p. 485, On the 
outer surface of the scales of fir-cones, Barnt Green (Ws.), March. 
STACHYLIDIUM Linx (1809).|| 
Dematioid. Hyph erect, subverticillately pence spores 
ere cer on the apices of the branches, globose oid 
nus, which includes one species, 8S. belong rachis d by 
Berkeley” (Eng. Fi. v. 341) from San and Margate, seems 
since to have dropped out of the British a 
. |Stachylidium cyclosporum — Ramis ramulosis, 
apices “hyalinas acutis; sporis perfecte Bioboalé 
On a rotting stick in a hedge, King’s Heath (Ws.), March. 
I was at first inclined to regard this as a variety of S. haere 
(Sace. bors ltal. fig. he but the differences seem sufficient for 
pl , 2-25 p dl 
little mucus, near ne mn AT Forming a greyish mealy patch. 
* Helminthosporium folliculatum Corda, var. 8. brevipilum, Icon. 
t Diminutive from dactylus, daxTurcs, a finger. 
§ Not Sporidesmium, which is erroneously formed. 
| Diminntive (?) from eraxvs, an ear of corn. 
