Okd. IX. Tribe III. FUNGI H YPHOMYCETES. 
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16575 Tufted, Tufts distinct at length sometimes confluent, Filam. white, Sporules pink very numerous oval 
16576 Filaments simple forming white spots of one or two lines in length on the living leaves of grasses 
16577 Filam. branched somew. fasciculated erect in spreading tufts white at first at length a fine glauc. color 
16578 Very lax tuft, white branch. Branch, few long spread, set with short patent ramuli bear, round dust, of spor. 
16579 Tufted confluent white. Filaments one line high. Branches divaricate, Sporules numerous ovate large 
16580 Pale purpl.-grey spread. Filam. branch, towards summ.t. Branch, divaric. short, Spor. large oval numerous 
16581 Somewhat tufted lax white not much branched, Sporules roundish 
16582 Tuft. min. formed of white erect filaments with little heads at first white but when mature of a glauc. color 
16583 In dense tufts composed of whitish or yellowish suberect entangled filaments with yellowish heads 
16584 Tufts rather dense. Filaments entangled suberect heads as well as the filaments greenish 
16585 Filaments scattered gregarious about a line high supporting an elongated tuft of beaded sporidia 
16586 Filaments branched erect remotely jointed scattered white, Sporules globular 
16587 Barren filaments effused interwoven : fertile ones simple somewhat scattered. Heads of sporules white 
16588 Densely tufted spreading, Heads of sporules at length glaucous 
16589 Tufted, Tufts roundish composed of snow-white interwoven filaments, Sporules profuse green at length 
giving the whole a green-color 
Class iV. PHYLLERIACEiE. 
16590 Irregularly tufted or effused and confluent whitish at length reddish-brown, Peridia shortly branched, 
Branches thick bearing several round or ovate lobes 
16591 On the surface of the leaf bright gold-color effused sometimes spreading over the whole leaf, Peridia 
simple crowded club-shaped, Sporules evident excessively minute yellow 
16592 Hypophyllous, so minute as scarcely to be raised above the surface of the leaf pale obscure purple widely 
effused, Peridia simple obtusely club-shaped 
16593 On the under surface of the leaf depressed distinct or confluent pale becoming reddish-brownj Peridia 
club-shaped very rarely turbinate flaccid, the upper half often inclined 
16594 Mostly on the under surface of the leaf scattered subeffused rich reddish-brown, Peridia compressed lin. 
somewhat lax with the apex club-shaped and often truncate 
16595 Mostly on the under surface irregularly tufted whitish becoming ferruginous, Peridia linear cylindrical 
twisted with rounded summits 
16596 Hypophyll. silky or toment. pale or quadrangular, Peridia erect cylindric. long and attenuated to a point 
16597 On the under surface whitish-pink becoming subferruginous rarely in the form of spots or tufts but con- 
fluent at the margin of the leaf which is rolled inwards and conceals it, Peridia short 
16.596 Mostly on the upper surface unequally scattered confluent fine crimson, Peridia polymorphous turbinate 
club-shaped or capitate, the summit frequently truncate 
16599 Mostly on the under surface whitish at length dark ferruginous often confluent, Peridia short polymor- 
phous sometimes turbinate but generally with two blunt horn-like patent summits 
CONIOMYCETES. 
Class I. TUBERCULARIJE. 
16600 Gregarious deep-red rugose furnished with a very short thick pale stipes 
16601 Gregarious confluent depressed flesh-red small somewhat plane 
16602 Somewhat round somewhat shortlj stipitate dull-red at length black. Surface tuberculate wnnkled 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
2484. Penicillium. A name with the same meaning as Aspergillus, to which genus this is extremely similar 
m appearance. , , , , 
2485. Trichoderma. From r§<xo?, hair, and lig/Mx,, a coat. The threads to which the sporules are 
attached spread round, radiating through the powdery mass in little tufts from a subjacent membrane. 
2486 Rubi^o An ancient Latin name of blight. There was a inferior deity whom the Romans acknow- 
ledged under^the name of Rubigus, and whom they propitiated in bad seasons. All the productions referred 
hither are popularly called mildew or blight. . ■, . 
2487. Erineum. So named in reference to its hispid appearance, which resembles the common hedge-hog, 
Erinaceus. Found growing upon leaves in little tufts. 
2488. Tubercularia. So named in allusion to its warted appearance. 
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