450 I'UNGUS-PLOEA. 



PacTmocyhe alhida (Ft.), Berk., Eng. Fl., v. p. 335. 

 On rotten wood and herbaceous stems. Scattered specimens 

 resemble short white hairs. 



Isaria spumarioides. Cooke. 



Densely tufted, white, palmate or infundibuliform,_ tips 

 crisped, lobed, or serrate, attenuated below into a minute 

 stem ; stems more or less connate ; conidia suhglobose, 4^5 ju. 

 diameter. 



Isaria spumarioides, Cke., Grev. ; Sacc, Syll., iv. n. 2816. 



On bark. Superficially resembling Spimaria alba. 



Isaria tomentella. Fr. 



Gregarious; simple cylindrical or subclavate, dingy 

 yellow, 1 line high, rather thick, villose. 



Isaria fomenfeZZa, Pries, Syst. Myc, iii. 276 ; Sacc, Syll., iv. 

 n. 2832. 



On rotten wood, also amongst leaves. 



Isaria clavata. Ditm. 



Gregarious ; springing from a stroma ; simple, clavate, 

 whitish or sometimes brownish, villous ; conidia suhglobose, 

 2-3 fi diameter. 



Isaria clavata, Ditm. in Sturm, D. 0. Fl., t. 56; Sacc, Syll., 

 iv. n. 2826. 



On trunks. From 2-3 lines high. 



***** On leaves, flowers, or fruit. 



Isaria fuciformis. Berk. 



Slender, pale or bright rose-colour, J in. high, simple or 

 sparingly branched, branches acute; conidia very minute, 

 globose, 2 /A diameter., 



Isaria fuciformis. Berk., Austr. Fung., n, 205 ; Sacc, Syll., 

 iv. n. 2839. 



On leaves and germinating seeds of grass. 



Isaria puberula. Berk. 



Minute, reddish, about 1 line high; stem straight, 

 branches few and simple, tips clavate, subverticillate, 

 mealy. 



