656 THE FUNGI WHICH CAUSE PLANT DISEASE 



Conidia in chains 



Conidiophores lacking 15. Exosporina, p. 656. 



Conidiophores present 



Sporodochia globose 16. Sphaeromyces. 



Sporodochia stellate 17. Actinomma. 



Epidochium Fries (p. 655) 



Sporodochium thick, tremelloid, subglobose or wart-form, black 

 or pallid, erumpent; sporophores filiform, equal or apically swollen; 

 conidia ovoid, oblong or pyriform, solitary or catenulate. 



Some fifteen species. 



E. oryzse Miy. is foimd '* on rice. 



Epicoccum Link (p. 655) 



Sporodochia globose or convex, cellular, 

 dark; conidiophores very short; conidia glo- 

 bose. Some fifty species. 



E. hyolopes Miy. is on rice. 



Strumella Saccardo (p. 655) ■» 



Sporodochia wart-shaped; conidiophores 

 Fig 445— e ' branched; conidia ovate, often somewhat bent. 



After Saccardo. Some fifteen species. 

 S. sacchari Cke. is found on sugar cane.*'* 



Chaetostroma Corda (p. 655) 



Sori dark or cushion-form black bordered with black hairs; 

 spores elliptical, fusiform or rarely almost spherical. 

 C. buxi Corda on Box=Nectria rousseliana. See p. 204. 

 C. cliviae Oud. causes blotches on Clivia. 



Exosporina Oudemaus 



Sporodochia erumpent; conidia catenulate, homomorphic, 

 continuous, greenish. Monotypic. 

 E. laricis Oud. is parasitic on larch leaves in Europe. 



