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3. Cionium P muricatum. Thorned flock-mould.
Sporangia sessile, blood-red, globular, woolly, clustered.
Trichia polymorpha, Sowerhy Fungi, 180, part.
On rotten cheese and wood.
4. Cionium P lacteum. Milky flock-mould.
Sporangia crowded, pedicelled, yellowish white, ovate,
woolly ; pedicells yellow, thickest at bottom, upright.
Trichia polymorpha, Sowerby Fungi, 180, part.
On rotten wood and branches.
5. Cio7iium P nigrescens. Blackish flock-mould.
Sporangia scattered, pedicelled, whitish, growing black,
globular; pedicell short, thick at bottom.
Trichia sphaerocarpus, Sowerby Fungi, 240.
On rotten wood and branches.
6. Cionium Pfulvum. Red-lroivn flock-mould.
Sporangia scattered, pedicelled, reddish-brown-yellow,
globular ; pedicells long, narrowing upwards, pellucid,
white.
Mucor fulvus, Sowerby Fungi, 400, 4.
On rotten dung.
XIV. 215. PHYSARUM. Persoon. Scale-mould.
Sporangium nearly globular; peridium simple, membranaceous,
bursting and separating in scales or wartlike
pieces; columella 0.
1. Physarum cinereum. Grey scale-mould.
Sporangia sessile, globular, grey, often confluent; flocci
sporidia collected into a globe.
white ;
Lycoperdon cinereum, Batsch Fung. 249.
Trichia caerulea. Roth Cat. Bot. 1,229,
Physarum cinereum, Persoon Syn. 170.
On trunks of trees ; autumn.
2. Physarum bivalve. Two-valved scale-mould.
Sporangia compressed, flexuous, greyish white, long,
sinuous, opening on one side.
Reticularia sinuosa, BuUiard Champ. 94.
Trichia sphaerica B, Roth Cat. 1, 230.
Physarum bivalve, Persoon Syn. 169.
On dry leaves and branches ; autumn.