302 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Penicillium sparsum. Grev. 



Tufts whitish, elongated, sterile hyphae effused; fertile 

 branches simple, sparinirly septate, suberect, forked near the 

 apex, each branch with a terminal yerticil of branchlets, 

 couidia colourless, minute, globose. 



Penicillium sparsum, Greville, Scot. Crypt. Fl., t. 58, f. 2 j 

 Saco., Syll., iv. n. 390. 



On putrid stem of Lappa, 



Penicillium. abnorme. B. & Br. 



Wbite, hyphae scanty, delicate, continuous, apex swollen 

 and obconical ; conidia minute, nearly globose, catenulate, 

 springing from the apex of the vesicle. 



Penicillium abnorme, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist,, n. 1914, 

 t. 3, fig. 4 ; Sacc, Syll., n. 893. 



On leaves of Trientalis. 



As there are no specimens of the present species in 

 Berkeley's herbarium, it is impossible to add to the above 

 brief diagnosis, or to know whether the fungus belongs to 

 Penicillium or Aspergillus. 



*** YellowisJi, ochraceous, or tawny. 



Penicillium bicolor. Fr. 



Sterile, hyphae effused, yellowish ; fertile hyphae more or 

 less fasciculate, apex penioillately branched; conidia sub- 

 globose, about 4 fi, diam. borne in chains at the tips of the 

 branchlets. 



Penicillium hicolor. Fries, Syst. Myc, iii. p. 408 ; Sacc, 

 Syll., n. 394. 



Coremium glaucum. Link. (When the fertile hypbae are 

 distinctly fasciculate.) 



On various decaying organic substances. 



Penicillium macrosporunii. B. & Br. 

 Orange, conidia globose, large. 



Berk, & Broome, Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1978; Sacc, Syll., 

 n. 396. 



On rotting lettuce. 



An imperfectly known species, described from a drawing. 



