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PLcell.apk, 8. NEMATOMYCE^. IDO.Typhoder. .'559
1. Typhoderma Dillwynii. Dillwyn's death-skin.
Thalli slightly branched ; joints as long as broad ; pellicle
olive-green.
Conferva typhoderma, Dillw. Conf. 83.
Conferva atramenti jS, Lingby Hydr. Dan. 165.
On a solution of" gum Arabic in water.
2. Typhoderma sanguinea. Bloody death-skin.
Thalli branched ; branches divaricating ; joints rather
longer than broad ;
pellicle red, gelatinous.
Conferva sanguinea, Dillw. Conf. 55.
On a solution of isinglass in water.
3. Typhoderma pallida. Pale death-skin.
Thalli iorked, bent different ways, even-topped; angles
of the forks rounded ; joints very long ; pellicle pale ochry
yellow, gelatinous, leatherlike.
Conferva pallida, Dillw. Conf. 78.
4. Typhoderma lactea. Milky death-skin.
Thalli branched; joints very long; pellicle gelatinous,
hyaline, dull milky yellow.
Conferva lactea, Dillw. Conf. 79.
XXV. 191.XYLOSTROMA. Tode. Oak-leather.
Thalli fibrous, branched, lying down, not jointed, very
closely entangled into a soft leatherlike mass.
Xylostroma glganieum. Gigantic oak-leather.
Mass very broad, soft, ochre-yellow.
Xylostroma giganleum, Tode Meckl. 1,36; Soieeriy Fungi, 358.
Racodium Xylostroma, Persoon Syn. 702.
Dry rot.
On rotten oak-trees and timber.
The terror of house and ship-owners of late; destroying
them with great rapidity, if built of too young or unseasoned
timber, and not sufficiently ventilated ; destroyed by
green vitriol, sal enixum, common salt, but especially by
the admission of a free current of air.
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