STUDIES OF SOIL FUNGI. SATURNOMYCES A NEW GENUS OF THE ASPERGILLACEAE

Abstract

Saturnomyces is described as a new genus of the Aspergillaceae in which the ascospores are black but not opaque with three prominent longitudinal ridges. There is an inconspicuous imperfect stage of the Cephalosporium type having long slender phialides each with a small globoid head of viscid phialospores. A single species is described, having been isolated from peat soil collected at Thedford, Ontario.