382 FUNGUS-PLOEA. 



tip ; branchlets turgid at the apex, eacli bearing 2-4 rather 

 long chains, of .oonidia; conidia globose, black. 



Saplographmm aaponis, Sacc, Syll., iv. n, 1499. 



PenieilUum saponis, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1913, 

 t. 3, f. 3. 



On soap. 



Haplographium olivaceum. C. &M. (fig. 12, p. 358.) 

 Somewhat effused, dark olive, nearly black ; threads erect, 



septate, simple, dark, slightly clavate and paler at the apex ; 



conidia narrowly elliptical, catemilate in simple chains, 



12-14 X 4 /i, pale olive, forming a subglobose, rather lax 



head. 



SaplogrwpMum olivaceum, Cke. & Mass., Grevillea, vol. xvi. 



p. 11. 



On rotten wood. 



DEMATIUM. Pers. (fig. 15, p. 358.) 



Sterile hyphae scanty, creeping; fertile hyphae erect, 

 simple or sparingly branched, septate, producing lateral 

 chains of conidia. Conidia sphaeroid or ellipsoid, continuous, 

 brown, sometimes connected by a short isthmus. 



Bematium, Fries, Syst. Myc, iii. p. 365 ; Sacc, Syll., iv. 

 p. 308. 



Sporodum, Corda, Ic. Fung., i. p. 18. 



Dematium hispidulum. Fr. (fig. 15, p. 358.) 



Tufts minute, hemispherical, setulose, black; hyphae 

 simple or sparingly branched, septate, the upper naked 

 portion obtuse or often acute, brownish; conidia globose, 

 dingy ochraceous, at length minutely asperulose, the terminal 

 one largest and darkest coloured, 10-14 ft, diameter. 



Bematium hispidulum, Fr., S. Myc, iii. p. 365; Sacc, Syll., 

 iv. n. 1600. 



Sporodum conopleoides, Corda, Ic. Fung., i. p. 18, f. 247, iii. 

 f. 22. 



Conoplea Mspidula, Pers., Sym., p. 235. 



Bematium graminum, Libert. 

 . On decayed leaves oi Arundo donax and.vaiious grasses. 



