320 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Botrytis galanthina. Saco. 



Hyphae with short branches towards the tip, umber- 

 brown, branchlets inorassated at the tip ; conidia obovate, 

 borne on elongated spictiles, 15-18 /«. long. 



Botrytis galanthina, Saoc, Syll., iv. n. 705. 



Polyactis galanthina, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1385, 

 t. viii. f. 8. 



On bulbs of snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis). 



OVULAEIA. Sacc. (fig. 8, p. 274.) 



Parasites. Hyphae subsimple, erect, more or less dis- 

 tinctly furnished with minute tooth-like projections near 

 the apex that bear the conidia. Conidia one-celled, colourless, 

 solitary, or rarely in short chains. 



Ovuiaria, Saoc, Mich., ii. p. 17; Saoc, Syll., iv. p. 139. 



Closely allied to Bamularia, but distinguished by the con- 

 tinuous conidia. 



* On Dicotyledons. 



Ovuiaria lychnicola. Mass. 



Spots often rather large and numerous, subcircular, 

 ocbraceous; fertile hyphae short, simple, erect, tufted; 

 <3onidia cylindrical, attenuated slightly at both ends, 

 ■colourless, 12-16 X 4 /*. 



Bamularia lychnicola, Cke., Grev., xiv. p. 40 ; Sacc, Syll., 

 iv., n. 993. 



On living leaves of Lychnis diurna. 



Ovuiaria lapsanae. Mass. 



Spots at first inconspicuous then becoming dry and pale ; 

 fertile hyphae tufted, simple or with a few short branchlets, 

 •30-50 X 3 /A, not septate ; conidia cylindrical, rather 

 attenuated at both ends, 10-16 x 3-6-4 /i, in short chains. 



Bamularia lampsanae, Sacc, Mich., ii. p. 649 ; Sacc, Syll., 

 iv. n. 1008. 



On imder surface of living leaves of nipplewort (La^sana 

 communis). 



Ovuiaria destructiva. Mass. 

 Parasitic Brumpent; forming broadly effused patches; 



