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558 187.Racod. 8. NEMATOMYCE^. Pl.cell.aph.
Fungus sponsinsus niger reticulatus, doliolis vinosis adnascens, Raii
Syn. 57, 10.
Byssus mollissima, Ehrh. Crypt. 217.
Byssus septica, Roth Germ. 4, 561.
Fibrillaria viimria, Sou-erby Fungi, 432.
Racodium cellulare, Persoon Syn. 701.
Mouse-skin byssus.
On casks in wine-cellars, from the rotten hoops ; sometimes
entirely covering the cask.
When compressed, resembles the skin of a mouse.
Used as an excellent styptic.
XXII. 188. DEMATIUM. Link. Star-fibre.
Thalli lying down or ascending, stiff, opake, branched,
not jointed in any part, lasting.
Demntium rupestre. Rock star-Jihre.
Thalli black, interwoven, cushionlike.
Byssus petraea nigerrima, Dillen in Raii Syn. 57, S.
By^sus nigra, Hudson Ft. Angl. 606.
Byssus aniiquitatis, Weiss Crypt.
Conferva nigra, Roth Cut. 3, ^^99.
Conferva eburnea, Dillwyn Conf. 101.
Racodium rupestre, Persoon Syn. 701.
Dematium rupestre, Esenbeck Syst. 2,21.
On rocks, especially sandstone,
XXIII. 189. BYSSUS. Micheli. Byssus.
Thalli threadlike, lying or hanging down, very tender,
opake, branched, not joihted in any part; soon melting
away.
Byssus lombycina. Cottony byssus.
Thalli very long, slender, collected into close flocks, extremely
white.
Byssus bombycina. Roth Germ. 3, 563.
Mucor fugacissima, Schrank Brief, 2, 321.
Byssus floccnsa, Schreb. Germ. 144.
Byssus subterrauea, Scopoli Cam. 2,411.
On wood, in cellars.
XXIV. 190. TYPHODERMA. Death-skin.
Thalli fibrous, not branched, lying down, jointed, entangled
into a pellucid pellicle.
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