branched, bearing the spores at their apices, rarely more
closely packed, so as to form a distinct common stem.
O k d e e 17. ISARIACEI.
Tlireads more or less compacted, plants assuming Hymeno-
mycetous forms.
174. ISARIA, m u .
Receptacle elongated, floccose, without any distinct heads.
Tips of threads only free.
1. farinosn, Fr.; Soxo. t. 308. On dead pupae.
2. araclmoplula, Film. {xio. 117). Ou dead spiders.
3. bracliiata, Sclam. {no. 30). On dead herbaceous stems,
4. citrina, P. {no. 31). On decaying Fungi.
B. intricata, Er. {no. 118). On decaying Fungi.
6. Fiiesii, Mont. {no. 491). On dead twigs.
7. pubenda, Berk. {no. 221, with a fig.). On dead floiyers of dalilia.
17B. ANTHINA, Fr.
Receptacle elongated, vertical, confluent with the stem,
dilated above. Tips of threads only free.
1. flammea, Er. {no. 119). (Plate 21, fig. 3.)
A. flavo-virens and brunnea are both probably -mere conditions
of the mycelium of Hypoxylon coccineum, Bull.
176. CERATIUM, A. and S.
Receptacle branched, cylindrical, membranous, reticulated,
suhgelatinous, clothed with short fertile flocci, one in the
centre of each reticulation.
1. hydnoides, A. and S.; Grev. t. 168.
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177. PACHNOCYBE, BerL
Stem solid, filiform below, clavate ahove, dusted with the
minute spores.
1. subulata. Berk. Eng. El. I. c. p. 333 ; Sow. t. 386. / , 5. On dead
herbaceous plants.
2. grisea, B. Eng. Fl. I. c.p. 334. On dead herbaceous stems.
3. acicula, B. I. c. On dead herbaceous stems.
4. albida, B. I. c. p.-33X<. On rotten wood.
OiiDEE 18. STILBAOEI.
Receptacle subglobose, often stipitate, clothed with mostly
minute, diffluent, suhgelatinous spores.
178. STILBUM, Tode.
Stem firm, elongated. Head nearly globose. Spores minute
or elongated, involved in gluten.
* Stem formed of interwoven Jlocci, more or less villous.
1. tomentosum, Schrad.; Grev. t. 281, and t. 3 jmiior. On Trichia, etc.
2. anrantiacum, B. {no. 223). On dead elm-branohes.
3. vaporarmm, B. and Br. {no. 493). On wood, in stoves. Scarcely
indigenous.
4. fasciculatum, B. and Br. {no. 492). On decayed wood.
,B. fimetarium, B. andBr. {no. 494), On dung. {Helotium fimetarinm,. P.)
6. eiythrooephalum, Ditm. I.e. t. 45. On dung.
** Stem rigid, mostly black.
7. rigidum, P. {no. 32). On decayed wood.
8. piliforme, P. {no. 33). On decayed w'ood.
9. bicolor, P. On decayed wood.
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