550
Gen. 1 8 9 .
ISAEIACEI.
C E R A T IV I « , A. & 8.
Kg. 224.
Receptacle branched, cylindrical,
membranous, reticulated,
sub-gelatinous, clothed with
short fertile flocci, one in the
centre of each reticulation.—
F r .S .M .m .p .2 9 3 . Berh. Outl.
p. 388. Eng.FI. Y.p. 329.
{Fig. 224.)
1 6 4 6 . Cezatium hy dnoid es,
A. Sp S. “ Chalky Ceratium.”
Aggregated, clavulae subdiscrete,
resembling prickles,
at length chalk-white.— Fr.
S.M. iii. p. 294. Mich. t. 92,/. 2.
Eng.FI.y .p .329. Bisch.f.3170.
Corda. Anl. t. 9, / . 71, no. 1-4.
Kl. exs. no. 572. Fchl. exs. no. 170. FI. L)m. t. 718 /^2. Jacq.
M isc .i.t. 16. Batsch.f. 19. B u ll.t.4 1 5 ,f.2 . A. t fS .t .2 . f l .
Linh. Biss. i. t. i. f . 38. Nees.f. 82. Grev. t. 168. Clayarm byssoides,
Sow. t. 335.
On rotten wood.
Gen. 1 9 0 .
l L
O 0 o-^y 0O *0
Fig. 226.
{Fig. 224.)
[New England.]
PACHNOCYBE, Berk.
Stem solid, filiform below, clavate
above, dusted with the minute spores.
—Berh. Outl.p. 389. Eng.FI. Y.p. 333.
{Fig. 225.)
1 6 4 7 . P a ch n o c y b e su b u la ta . Berh.
“ Awl-shaped Pachnocybe.”
Stem brown-grey, subulate, slightly
incrassated above ; spores minute.—
Berh. E n g .F I .Y .p . 333. S ow .t.3 8 6 ,f.
5. N e e s .N .A .C u r .ix .t.5 ,f.8 . Sturm.
t. 30. Berh. exs. no. 51.
On wood, sticks, &c. [Low. Oarolina.]
Stem i-2 Hnes or more bigb, brmynisb cinereoua,
truly subulate, or slightly thickened above,
often fasciculate, occasionally breaking up lo n ^ -
tudinally into flocci, tbe upper half clouded with
tbe minute elliptic spores wbieh gradually feU
away when the plant is placed in ^ te r^A :» £ i-
1 6 4 8 . Pachnocybe g z ise a . Berh. “ Grey Pachnocybe.”
Densely gregarious, abbreviated ; stem blackish; heads globose
; spores grey.—Berh. Eng. El. v. p. 334. Periconia discolor,
Corda. iii./. 38. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 495*.
On dead herbaceous stems.
Stem dark, nearly black, composed of fibres not a line high, head greyish,
at length dusky, spores elliptic.—Eng. Ft.
1 6 4 9 . Pachnocybe a c ic u la . Berh. “ Needle-shaped
Paehnooyhe.”
Gregarious ; stem white or pallid; bead sub-globose ; spores
elliptic.—Eng. FI. v. p. 334.
On dead herbaceous stems.
Mycelium obsolete. Scarcely a line high, gregarious, but rather scattered,
pure white, or with the slightest possible pallid tinge on the stem. Stem
splitting up into fibres; reoeptaole sub-globose, covered with minute elliptic
spores.— FI.
1 6 5 0 . Pachnocybe a lb id a . Berh. “ Whitish Pachnocybe.”
Gregarious, pure white, clavato, spores large, oval (oval-
oblong. Fr.)—Eng. FI. v. p. 335. Sporocyhe albida, Fr. S.M.
iii. p. 14. Berh. exs. no. 52.
On rotten wood.
Not a line high. Gregarious, but rather scattered, white ; stem marked
with cells like the leaves of a Eypnum, filiform at the base, confluent with
the strongly clavate apex, which is sometimes forked. Spores scattered on
the reoeptaole, large, oval, transparent.—.Sity. FI.