452 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



iead at the apex ; conidia falcate -vermicular, 2- many-septate, 

 «Tibhyaliiie. 



Atractium, Link, Berlin Mag., iii. p. 10 (1809); Sacc, 

 SylL, iv. p. 699. 



Distinguished from other compound stemmed, more or less 

 club-shaped genera by the slender, pointed, elongated, many- 

 .septate conidia. 



Atractium flamEaeum. Berk. & Eav. (fig. 33, p. 397.) 

 Stroma cylindric-clavate, obtuse, shortly stipitate, 1 mm. 

 high, reddish flame-colour ; whitish below, pruinose ; conidia 

 fusoid, curved, both ends acute, hyaline, 4-6 septate, not 

 "Constricted at the septa, 70-75 /^ilong ; sporophores elongated, 

 septate, 3 • 5 /^ thick, 



Atractium jlammeum. Berk. &Eav., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 757; 

 •Sacc, Syll., iv. n. 2860. 



On bark of living willow, &c. 



Series IT. Phaeostilbeae. Sacc. 



Sect. 1. Amerosporae. Sacc. 



SPOEOCYBE. Fries, (fig. 19, p. 442.) 



Stem consisting of a fascicle of hyphae, fibrous, apex 

 ■capitate and bearing the conidia ; capitulum globose or 

 -elongated ; conidia subglobose or ellipsoid, brown. 



Sporocybe, Fries, emended by Bonorden, Hdbk., p. 138 ; 

 •Sacc, Syll., iv. p. 604. 



Somewhat resembling Periconia in habit, but in the latter 

 the stem consists of a single hypha, and not of a bundle of 

 hyphae as in the present genus. 



Sporocybe byssoides. Bon. , (fig. 19, p. 442.) 

 Stems gregarious, subulate, 1 mm. high, rigid, blackish- 

 grey, springing from a common compact base ; heads minute, 

 blackish-olive; conidiophores paler, divergent; conidia 

 obovate, 4-6 X 3-4//,; olive, 1-guttulate. 



Sporocyhe hyssoides, Bonorden, Hdbk., p. 188, f. 217; Sacc, 

 Syll., 2877 & 1310. 



On stems of herbaceous plants ; branches of ivy (Hedera), 

 ibox (^Buxus), &c. 



