384 PUNGUS-FLOEA. 



inserted on the brancUets, globose or ovoid, aggi-egated in 

 clusters and held together by mucus. 



Myxotrichum, Kunze, Myk., Heft ii. p. 108; Sacc, SylL, 

 iv. p. 317. 



Allied to Bolacolricha, but distinguished by the sterile 

 hyphae being very much branched near the base. 



Myxotrichum chartarum. Kunze. 



Hyphae very slender, decumbent, divaricately branched 

 below, almost simple upwards, interwoven into blackish- 

 olive tufts, the tips hooked ; conidia aggregated in clusters 

 at the tips of the basal branchlets. 



Myxotrichum chartarum, Kunze, Myk., Heft ii. p. 110; 

 Sacc, Syll., iv. n. 1535. 



On damp paper, &c. 



Myxotrichum cancellatum. Phil. 



Tufts minute, subglobose, grey, ^ mm. diameter ; hyphae 

 elongated, subulate, blackish, simple, elegantly cancellately 

 branched near the base ; conidia elliptical, 3 /a long, some- 

 what hyaline, covering the network of branchlets. 



Myxotrichum cancellatum, Phillips, in Grevillea; Sacc, Syll., 

 iv. n. 1539. 



On rotten stem of Bartsia odontites. 



Myxotrichum deflexum. Berk. 



Tufts minute, slightly downy, grey, hyphae radiating, 

 branched, branches opposite, deflexed, becoming shorter 

 upwards, branchlets few, short, acute ; ccnidia elliptic- 

 oblong, collected in clusters towards the base of the tufts. 



Myxotrichum deflexum. Berk., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 122, 

 t. viii. f. 9 ; Sacc, Syll., iv. n. 1540. 



On paper, rotten wood, &c. 



Myxotrichum ochraceum. B. & Br. (figs'. 32, 33, 

 p. 358.) 



Yellow then greenish ; hyphae elongated, acute, branchlets 

 deflexed ; conidia globose, 3 '6 /a diameter. 



Myxotrichum ochraceum, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1475, 

 t. i. f. 4; Sacb., Syll., iv. n. 1541. 



On wood. 



