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574. 216. Leang. 9.GASTER0MYCE^. Vlcellaph.
2. Leam^ium^florifurme.
Flowershape scale-monld.
Spo-rangia straw-colour, first globular, afterwards stel-
pedicells long, slender, cylindrical.
late, spreading ;
Didymium floriforme, Schroder N. Gen. 1, 25.
Spliasrocarpus iioriformis, BuUiard Champ. 142.
Diderina floriforme, Persoon Syn. 161.
On trunks of trees, and on hypna,
XVI. 217. LEOCARPUS. Link. Glance-mmld.
Sporangium roundish or ovate; peridmm simple, membranaceous,
brittle, bursting ; columella 0.
1. Leocarpi/s vernicosus. Varnished glance-mould.
Sporangium reverse-ovate, shining, brown ; pedicells
short, dilated at bottom, membranaceous.
Lycoperdon fragile, Dickson Crypt, 1,25; Sowerby Fungi, 136,
Trichia lutea. Roth Cat. Bat. 2, 330.
Diderma veniicosiim, Persoon Syn. 16T.
Leocarpus vernicosus, Link Berl. Mag, 3.
On ivy-leaves, and large mosses.
2. Leocarpus parasiticus. Parasitic glance-mould.
Sporangium nearly globular, dull tawny ;
drical, yellowish-white.
Diderma veriiicosum parasiticum, Persoon Syn. 165.
Lycoperdon cyiiDdricuni, Withering Bot.Arr. 414.
"On grasses and mosses, in clusters.
pedicells cylin-
D. Trichiade^e. Peridium thin, single, regular, mostly
pedicelled, smooth, bursting or falling into regular pieces
Jlocci springing out from the bottom of the peridium, and
extending elastically after its destruction; sporidia scattered
among the flocci.
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XVII. 218. TRICHIA. Persoon. Hair-mould.
Sporangium determinately figured ; peridium membranaceous,
cracking ; j?occi ascending in a winding manner
from the bottom ; sporidia angular.
a. Sporangia creeping.
1. Trichia reticulaia. Network hair-mould.
Sporangia spreading, yellow; peridium very thin, in ir~
regular network.
G Lycoperdon lumbricale, Balsch Fungi, 1,259.
Trichia reticulata, Persoon Sijn. 182.
On the mossy trunks of trees; autumn.