312 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Monofijiorium saccharinum, Berk. & Broome, Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 n. 1379; Sacc, Syll., n. 603. 



On decaying substances under glass. 



BOTEYTIS, Mich, (emended), (fig. 7, p. 274.) 



Sterile hyphae creeping, fertile erect, vaguely branched. 

 Branchlets slender, tips rather acute {Eubotrytis) ; branchlets 

 thickened, rather obtuse (Polyactis) ; tips inflated and 

 furnished with pointed wart-like projections (Phymato- 

 triehum) ; tips obtuse and divided into numerous spine-like 

 projections {Gristularia). Conidia one-celled, globose, ellip- 

 soid, or oblong, colourless or brightly coloured, variously 

 aggregated near the tips of the branchlets, bat not forming 

 dense heads. 



Botrytis, Micheli, emended by Link, Sp. PL, i. p. 53 ; Sacc, 

 Syll., iv. p. 116. Polyactis, Link, (in part). 



A. Eubotrytis. 



Small, soft, colour variable ; branches slender, somewhat 

 equal ; conidia loosely aggregated at the tips. 



FIGURES ILLUSTRATING THE MUCEDINEAE. 



1. Milowia nivea, portion of plaiit and a free eonidium; — Fig. 2, Fris- 

 mariafurcata (enlarged, after Grove); — Fig. 3, Mucrosporium spliaeroce- 

 plialum ; — Fig. 4, Monosporium oUvaceum ; — [Fig. 5, Marmnia i-pomeae, 

 natural size, emerging from a branch; — Fig. 6, portion of same; — Fig. 7, 

 JSypodermium orchidearvm, emerging from a leaf;] — Fig. 8, O'idium 

 leueoeonium; — Fig. 9, Hormiscium splendens ; — Fig. 10, Torula moni- 

 Uoides ; — Fig. 11, Gyroceras plantaginis ; Fig. 12, Echindbotryum atrum ; — • 

 Fig. 13, Stachybalrys asperula ; — Fig. 15, Cliromosporium lateritium ; — 

 Fig. 15a, Olonostachys araucaria ; — Fig. 16, Haplaria grisea ; — Fig. 17, 

 Geotriclmm candidum ; — Fig. 18, Fusidiwn viride ; — Fig. 19, Bhopdlmnyces 

 pallidum; — Fig. 20, head of same, showing areolated surface; — Fig. 21, 

 Polyseytalvm fungorum ;^Fig. 22, Briaria elegans ; — Fig. 23, Septoaj- 

 lindrium Bonordeni; — ^Fig. 24, Biplocladiitm melleum; — Fig. 25, Sepe.- 

 donium chrysospermum ; — Fig. 26, Tnehnderma lignorum ; — Fig. 27, 

 Sterigmatocystis duHa; — Fig. 28, section of head of same; — Fig. 29, 

 Microstroma album;— ¥ig. HO, Amblyosporium botrytis; — Fig. 31, Sporo- 

 tridh'Um geocJiroum ; — Fig. 32, Acremonium alternatum ; — Fig. 33, Hypho- 

 derma roseum. All the figures are highly magnified. 



Figs. 5-7 do not belong to the Hyphomyoetes. 



