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PL cell aph. 9. GASTEROMYCEiE. 207. Lycogal. 569
^.fuUg'meum. Sporangium covered with a spongy crust.
Lycoperdon Epidendriim fuligineiun. Bull. Champ. 503.
y. marginata. Sporangium blood-red, black at the base.
B. MYROTHEciADEiE. Peridiiim thin, single or double,
sessile, spread out, irregular, falling to pieces and vanishing;
columella ; flocks ; sporidia in tufts, afterwards sepa-
rating. Sporangium at first liquid, afterwards solid.
VII. 208. MYROTHECIUM. Tode. Slime-viotdd.
Sporangium irregular, flattened, sessile ; peridium simple,
brittle, branlike, at length vanishing ; sporidia very small,
globular, at length conglutinated,
Myrothecium, inundatum. Inundated sUme-mouId.
Sporangium snow-white, irregular, confluent; sporidia
black-green.
Myrothecium inundatum, Tot^e MecA^. 1,25.
On rotten fungi ; autumn.
VIII. 209. DICHOSPORIUM. Esenb. Double-mould.
Sporangium fiattened, hemispherical; periffiz/w membranaceous,
covered with a bed of granules ; sporidia at first
fluid, then compact, conglutinated.
Dichosporium aggregalum. Aggregated double-mould.
Sporangia crowded; peridia brown; bed of granules
sporidia black.
snow-white, shining ;
Spumaria physaroides, Persoon Syn. 163.
Dichosporium aggregatum, Esenbcck Fungi, 2, 23.
On rotten branches of trees ; autumn.
IX. 210. LICEA. Link. Bare-mould.
Sporangium nearly globular, or lengthened into a cylinder;
peridium thin, membranaceous, becoming cracked;
sporidia crowded.
1 . Licea strobilina. Cone hare-mould.
Sporangia crowded, orbicular or elliptical, smooth,
sporidia ovate, yellow.
brown ;
Licea strobilina. Alb. et Schwein. Fung. 2, 20.
On rotten pine-cones.