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590 236. Erysibe. 10. SARCOTHECE^. Plcell.aplu
8. Enjsile herheridis. Berberry mould-lud.
Rays two-forked at the tip.
Erysiphe berberidis, De Cand. Fl. Gall. 737.
On the upper face of berberry-leaves.
9. Erysibe acarijhrme. Ticklike mould-bud.
Thalli heartshape, brown, rather downy; rays interwoven,
torn, yellow.
Lycoperdon arariforme, Sowerby Fungi, 146.
On rotten wood.
10. Erysibe Sowerbii. Soiverby's moidd-bud.
Thallus nearly globular, brown, woolly ; rays very slender,
very long, radiately regular, yellowish.
Lycoperdon radiatum, Sowerby Fungi, 145.
On plaistered walls.
II. 237. THANATOPHYTUM. Esenb. Death-mould.
Thallus tuberous, expanded creeping, rootlike.
Thanalophytum crocorum. Saffron death-mould.
Thallus red.
Tuber parasiticum, BulUard Champ. 81.
Sclerotiiim crocorum, Persoon Syn. 119.
Tlianatophytum crocorum, Esenbeck Syst. 2,38.
La mort de saffron.
On the bulbs of crocuses, the roots of dwarf elder and
asparagus.
Very destructive to saffron, speedily destroying a whole
plantation of it. The French cultivators trench the ground
very deep round the infected spot, throwing the earth of.,,
the trench upon it, and no longer cultivate saffron thereon,
as it will remain in the ground for 15 or 20 years.
III. 238. SCLEROTIUM. Persoon. Corn-mould.
Thallus variously shaped, mostly globular, without any
expansion.
1 . Sclerotium vaporarioriLm. Stove corn-mould.
Thallus
brown ;
flat, often lobed, rather hard ; at first smooth-
when old black, wrinkled.
Sclerotium vaporariorum, Albert and Schioein. Nisk. 73.
On the bark-bed of hot-houses.