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wldcli are often adglutinated side by side, pale olive, 

 12 X 6—8 fL, scarcely constricted at the joints. 



Torula gyrosa, Cke. & Mass., Grev., xvi. p. 10. 



On rotting pine wood. 



Torula pulveracea. Corda. 



Tufts blackish-olive, very thick and powdery, oblong, 

 parallel, sometimes confluent, dense, stroma spurious, 

 blackish ; chains of conidia branched ; conidia elliptic- 

 oblong, smooth, 1-2 guttulate, olivaceous, 7-11 X 4-6 ft. 



Torula pulveracea, Corda, Ic. Fung., xi. p. 8, f. 38 ; Sacc, 

 Syll., iv. n. 1221. 



On fallen branches, wood, &c. 



Torula antennata. Pers. 



Tufts effused, felty, blackish-violet or black with ochra- 

 ceous tinge ; fertile hyphae, filiform short, conidia oblong, 

 unequal, 10-15 x 3-4 /i, sometimes slightly constricted at 

 the centre, but never septate, with 1-3 hyaline oil globules, 

 sooty ; in rather persistent, longish chains that are some- 

 times branched. 



Torula antennata, Pers., Myc. Eur., i. p. 21 ; Sacc, Syll., 

 iv. n. 1189. 



On rotten wood of Fagus, Fraxinus, Vitas and Corylus. 



Torula ovalispora. Berk. 



Tufts flattened, powderj', circular or elongated, black or 

 with an olive tinge ; conidia in long chains, very irregular 

 in form, broadly elliptical, fusiform, or oblong; size vari- 

 able, 8—15 X 4—6 /t," clear pale brown. 



Torula ovalispora. Berk., Engl. Flora, vol. v. p. 359. 



Oospora ovalispora (Berk.), Sacc. et Vogl., Syll., iv. n. 30. 



On rotten wood and branches. 



Patches sometimes ^ in. across, black, powdery ; a typical 

 Torula. The above description is drawn up from Berkeley's 

 type specimen. 



Torula expansa. Pers. 

 Tufts large; chains of conidia aggregated or solitary, 

 simple, straight, rather ligid, subpellucid, jointed, joints or 

 conidia more or less quadrate, 7—10, central ones slightly 

 largest, 6—8 jx diameter, not separating, brown. 



