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PLcell.apk. 9. GASTEROMYCEiE. 222. Stemon. 579
b. Embolus. Flocci in a lovg mass.
3. Stemonitisfasciculata. Bundled thread-mould.
Sporangia clustered, on a shining base, dark-brown, long,
tip drooping; pedicells passing through the flocci, exserted
at the top.
Stemonitis fusca, Roth Cat. Bot. 1,222.
Trichia axifera, Bulliard Champ. 118.
Stemonitis typhina, Gmelin Syst.Nat. 2, 1461.
Trichia nuda, Sowerby Fungi, 50.
Clathrus nudiis, Lin. Syst. Veg. 1017.
Embolus lacteus, Hoffm. Crypt. 2, 8, when young.
On trunks of trees ; autumn.
4. Stemonitis typhina. Bull-rush thread-jnould.
Sporangia scattered, cylindrical, blunt, slightly bent.
Trichia typhoides, Bulliard Champ. 113.
Embolus pertusns, Batsch Fung. 1,263.
Stemonitis typhina, Persoon Syn. 187.
On trunks of trees ; autumn.
Sporangia smaller than S. fasciculata ;
peridium does not
vanish entirely, some pieces remaining; base none.
G. Crateride^. Sporangium regularly formed, pedicelled,
operculated ; peridium single, membranaceous
Jlocci 0, or enclosed, free ; sporidia intermixed with the flocci.
XXII. 223. CRATERIUM. Trentepohl. Pitcher-mould.
Sporangium pitcher or cupshape, operculated, pedicelled
peridium membranaceous; operculum flattish; Jlocci free,
coming out with the sporidia.
1. Crater, leucocephalum,. White-headed pitcher-mould.
Sporangium funnelshape, reddish-brown ; operculum pale;
Jlocci white ; sporidia globular, white.
Arcyria leucocephala, Hoffm. Germ. 2, 6.
Stemonitis leucocephala, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 2, 1467.
Trichia cinerea, Roth Cat. Bot. 1,237.
On mosses.
2. Craterium vulgare. Cornmon pitcher-mould.
Sporangium bellshape, greyish-brown ; mouth expanded
pedicell dark-yellow ;
sporidia brown.
Craterium pedunculatum, Roth Cat. Bot. 1,224.
Craterium vulgare, Sowerby Fungi, 239, lowest figure.
Trichia minuta, Relhan Fl. Cant.
Trichia capsulifer, De Candolle Syn. Fl. Gall. 35.
On rotten wood and mosses.
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