EPiDOCHiusr. 489 



Epicoccum equiseti. Berk., in Cooke's Hdbk., n. 1679; Sacc, 

 Syll., iv. n. 3504. 



Oa decayiag stems of Equisetum, limosum. 



Epicoccum purpurascens. Ehreiib. (figs. 10, 11, 

 p. 442.) 



Sporodochia blackish-brown, globular, 120-150 /i diameter, 

 crowded into oblong clusters 2—3 mm. long, seated on an 

 elongated purple spot ; conidia large, subglobose, yellowish 

 then brown, reticulated, distinctly areolated and warted, 

 pedicel hyaline, attenuated at the base, 16-22 /a diameter. 



Epicoccum purpurascens, Ehr., Sylv., p. 12 ; Sacc, Syll., iv. 

 n. 3481. 



On leaves or dead herbaceous stems. 



EPIDOCHIUM. Fries, (fig. 2, p. 442.) 



Sporodochium erumpent, almost superficial, waxy or 

 gelatinous then fleshy, subglobose or wart-like, blackish, 

 rarely pallid, conidiophores filiform and equal or passing 

 into globoso-clavate pseudo-conidia ; conidia ovoid, oblong or 

 piriform, solitary or catenulate. 



Epidochium, Fries, Summa Veg. Scand., p. 471 ; Sacc, 

 Syll., iv. p. 747. 



The subgenus Eu-Eptdochium is more closely allied to 

 Vaeryorayceteae than to the Tuberculariae. (Sacc.) 



Epidochium atrovirens. Fr. (fig. 2, p. 442.) 

 Erumpent, discoid, very minute, papillately rugulose, 

 sooty-gi-een when moist, black when dry, gregarious or con- 

 fluent, about 1 mm. diameter; sporophores filiform, passing 

 at the apex into tawny, eUiptico-clavate pseudo-conidia, 

 35 X 15 /i; conidia unknown. 



Epidochium atrovirens. Fries, Sum. Teg. So., p. 471 ; Sacc, 

 SyU., n. 3538. 



On dead branches of Ulex, Sarothamnus, Fraxinus, &c. 



