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THE WEST VIRGINIA FLORA On some of the insects there is a cottony or flocculent mass of white mycelium interwoven in a somewhat reticulate manner, and collected in strings or bundles. It bears no fruit, but is probably a luxuriant growth of the mycelium of this fungus. Occasionally the fungus seems to spread from the insect to bark immediately adjacent to it. C. FLACELLARIS E. & E. Field Mus. Bot., 1:100 (1896). TYPE HABITAT: On dead stem of Helianthus decapetalus, Dec. 3, 1894 (Nuttall. discov. 1762, 650). (C. lactea S. & E. partly, Sacc. No. 3550.) Sporodochia gregarious, subglobose, subhyaline and gelatinous when fresh, lens-shaped, with a thin spreading mnargin, orbicular, -33 to .50 mm diameter, yellowish-amber color (whitish in the center) when dry. Sporophores densely fasciculate, Magelliform 2 to 3 times dichotomously branched, 80 to 100 u long, separating into the short cylindrical, hyaline, 4 to 5 XI conidia. This was included by Saccardo in Michelia II. p. 581, in Cylindrocolla lactea, S. & E. (on rotten wood of Kalmia), but differs in the shape and color of the sporodochia and the sporophores only 2 to 3 times dichotomously branch. C. lactea retains its white color when dry, and resembles young Lasiosphaeria ovina. gin, us when i gregariantly, Sacc. ,650). SCORIOMYCES Ell & Sacc. S. CRAGINI E. & S. Under loose bark of dead Hicoria sp., Short Creek, alt. 1.250 ft., Nov. 21, 1893 (Nuttall, 1272, 219). VOLUTELLA Tode. V. CILLATA (A & S.) Fr. On decaying leaves of Prunus cult. in grass, June 20, 1893 (Nuttall, 1010). BACTRIDIUM Kunze. B. FLAVUM K. & S. Under decaying bark of Quercus alba, Monongalia Co., near Morgantown (Millspaugi). HELISCUS Sacc. H. LUGDUNENSIS Sacc. On dead limbs of Ilex opaca, thrown in wet places one year previously, March 16, 1894; sporodochia + 2 mm. diameter, conidia 30 to 33 x 5 x (Nuttall, 1427, 400). Digiized by Google
