332 . FUNGUS-FLORA. 



On bark, wood, &c. 



A very beautiful fungus, resembling an Araucaria 

 miniatuie when seen under a low magnifying power. 



SPICAEIA. Harz. (fig.. 10, p. 274.) 



Sterile hypbae creeping, brancbed, septate ; fertile hypbae 

 erect, septate, repeatedly verticillately brancbed towards 

 the apex, ultimate brancblets eacb bearing a diverging chain 

 of elliptic or oblong, pale or colotirless, continuous conidia. 



Spiearia, Harz, Hypb., p. 50 ; Sacc, Syll., iv. p. 166. 



With the general habit of Verticilliuni, but distinct in the 

 lax, spreading chains of conidia. 



Spiearia elegans. Harz. (fig. 10, p. 274.) 

 Tufts thin, effused, minutely velvety, whitish ; fertile 

 hypbae erect, septate, 2-3 times verticillately branched 

 aiiove, ultimate brancblets tapering, chains of conidia elon- 

 gated, lax ; conidia elongato-elliptical, colourless. 5 x 3 /«.. 

 ifp'caj-ia eZeg^ajis, Harz, Hyphom. p. 51; Sacc, Syll., iv. n. 853. 

 On bark, fungi, &c. 



Var. muscorum. Grove, Journ. Bot., t. 256, f. 8. 

 Fertile hypbae 150-250 x 4-5/u,; conidia slightly larger 

 than in type, subacute at both ends, 9 x 3 /a. 

 On moss, wood, &c. 

 Forming a thin, white, pulverulent stratum. 



Tribe 7. Gonatobotryteae. Sacc. 

 GONATOBOTKYS. Corda. (fig. 12, p. 274.) 



Sterile hypbae creeping, fertile erect, septate, inflated at 

 the septae, inflated portions covered witli spicule-like pro- 

 jections that bear the continuous conidia. 



Gonatrobatrys, Corda, Prachtflora, t, v. ; Sacc, Syll., iv. 

 p. 169. 



Must not be confounded with Arthrobotrys, which has 

 1-septate conidia. 



