HYPHOMYCETACEAE 443 



Fusarium pannosum, Massee, Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 

 117. — Sporodochia erumpent, 5-10 cm. diam., suborbicular, 

 often confluent, bright vermilion, fleshy, subgelatinous, 

 compact ; hyphae creeping, densely interwoven, branched, 

 sparingly septate, 4-5 /«. thick, hyaline ; conidiophores 

 sparingly branched, branchlets fusoid ; conidia fusoid, 

 falcate, ends acute, 3-septate, 35-38 X 5 /*. 



Fusarium limonis, Briosi, Act. Staz. Chim. Agrar. Roma, 

 1878. — Sporodochia gregarious, confluent, white; hyphae 

 spreading, branched, septate ; conidiophores erect or 

 ascending, oppositely or alternately branched ; conidia 

 very variable, acrogenous, continuous, or septate at the 

 middle, or 2-3-septate, oblong or fusiform, slightly curved, 

 attenuated, slightly constricted at the septa, hyaline, 26- 

 27 X 2 '4-2 '8 jj.. 



Chaetostroma, Corda. — Sporodochium discoid or pul- 

 vinate, black, bordered with black, rigid hyphae ; conidia 

 ovoid or subfusiform, rarely subglobose, borne sohtary 

 at the tips of slender conidiophores, rarely in chains. 



Chaetostroma cliviae, Oud., Ct. Rend. Acad. Sc. Pays- 

 Bas, i8g6, p. 226. — Sporodochia innate on large yellow 

 spots, inordinate, shining black, orbicular, elliptical or 

 irregular in shape, up to \ mm. long, finally with a central 

 opening or a longitudinal slit ; surrounded by black, 

 pointed, septate, more or less flexuous hairs about 210X5 

 {x; conidia cylindrical, ends rounded, continuous, hyaline, 

 23-28x5-7 \>: 



