Oedeb28. o n y g e n e i .
Peridium formed of closely-interwoven threads. Sporidia
at length forming a compact, dusty mass.
319. ONYGENA, P.
Parasitic on animal substances. Peridium stipitate or sessile,
paper-likc, at length splitting. Asci delicate. Sporidia
at length forming a dusty mass.
1. equina, P .; Grev. t. 343. On hoofs, horns, etc.
2. piligena, Fr. (no. 219). On decaying flannel, etc.
3. apus, B. and Br. (no. 582). On bones.
P a m . VI.—p h y s o m y c e t e s .
Threads free, or only slightly felted, bearing vesicles which
contain indefinite sporidia.
Okder 29. AN TEN N A B IE I.
Threads black, more or less felted, moniliform and equal in
the same felt, bearing here and there irregular sporangia.
320. ANTENNABIA, Lk. -
Threads felted, black, articulated, often moniliform. Walls
of sporangia mostly cellular. Spores chained together, immersed
in gelatinous pulp.
1. semiovata, B. and Br. (no. 784, with a fig.). On Filix-mas.
331. ZASMIDIUM, Fr.
Sporangium thin, carbonaceous, but brittle, growing on a
septate, byssoid, equal mycelium. Mouth subumbilicate.
Spores simple.
1. cellare, P r.; Grer. ¿. 259. In cellars.
Order 30. MUOOBINI.
Threads free, bearing terminal or lateral sporangia.
333. ASCOPHOBA, Tode.
Sporangia collapsing, and at length hanging down over the
fructifying apices like a hood. Fruit sometimes of two kinds.
1. Mucedo, Tode; Grev. t. 261. On bread.
2. elegans, Cd. On fowls’ dung.
323. MTJCOB, Mich.
Threads free. Sporangia at length bursting, but not dependent.
1. Phycomyces, B. Phycomyces nitens, Ag. On greasy walls, fat, etc.
2. ramosus, Bull. t. 480. /. 3. On decaying Fungi.
3. Mucedo, L. On fruit, etc.
4. caninus, P.; Grev. t. 305. On dogs dung.
5. fusiger, Lk. On decaying Agarics.
6. clavatus, Lk. On fruit, etc.
7. amethysteus, B. in Eng. Fl. I.e. p. 332. On pears.
8. succosus, B. ’{no. 225, with afig.). On stumps of Aiicuba.
9. delicatulus, B .; Eng. Fl. I. c. On rotting gourds.
10. tenei-rimus, B. (Hydrophora tenerrima, B .; Hook. Journ. iii. p. 78,
with a fig) On sticks, in woods.
11. subtilissimus, B. in Journ. Lond. Horl. Soc. iii. p. 98. On mildewed
onionSj developed from Sclerotium cepcevoi'um.
324. HYDROPHOBA, Tode.
Threads erect, tubular, sparingly articulate, equal above,
terminated by a vesicle which is at first watery and crystalline,