On decaying vegetables. Autumn.
Especially deligliting in Spm'ganium, “ Flocci simple or forked, grey,
slender, but rather rigid,„ , septate . ,; at the sides and 1 apices aarree iliittttllee Rheeaappss of
globose grey sporidia, giving it at first a whorled aspect. They soon fail
off
and leave the flocci naked.”—A/./.B. (Fig. 268.)
Gen. 2 3 4 . PO LYA C TIS , Link.
Flocci septate, brownish, branched above;
spores hyaline, in terminal clusters.—Berh.
Outl. p. 859. {Fig. 269.)
P o ly a c tis v u lg a r is . Lh. “ Common Polyactis.”
Flocci grey, sterile, rather fleecy ; fertile divided at the apex
into lobe-like branchlets, on which are collected the globose,
minute sporidia.—Nees. Sys.f. 57. Botrytis vulgaris. BerTc. Fng.
F I . y .p . 342.
On rotting plants, gourds, and cabbages. Common.
Variable in ramification, and in colour of the sporidia. (Fig. 269.)
1 7 9 9 . P o ly a c tis c an a , Berh. “ Hoary Polyactis.”
Flocci cinereous, or whitish, sterile effuse, fertile branched
at the apex ; sporidia large, oval.—Botrytis cana. Berh. Fng.
FI.y . p. 342. Fr. S.M. iii.p. 397. Coohe exs. no. 355.
On rotting stems and leaves.
Easily distinguished from its allies by
the large, oval sporidia; branches
rather compact, growing in a botryoid
rather than racemose form.—Mug.
FI.
1 8 0 0 . P o ly a c tis v e ra . Berh. “ Mioheli’a Polyactis.”
Flocci grey, sterile rather fleecy, fertile branched above,
forming spikes about the slender apices; spores l—Botrytis
vera. Berh. Fng. F I.y . p. 343. Bot. spicata. Mich. t. 9 1 ,/. 4.
Mucor. botrytis. Bolt. 1.182,f. 3.
On Polyporous versicolor. Near Halifax.
This species appears to have been found by Bolton, and by no one else in
Britain.
1801. P o ly a c tis cinezea. Berh. “ Cinereous Polyactis.”
Fertile flocci, gregarious, subsimple, cinereous, soon strangulated
; spores attached here and there, globose, whiter than the
flocci.—Botrytis cinerea. Berh. Fng. F I .y . p. 342. Pers. Disp.
Z .3 ,/9 ,1 0 .
On stems of herbaceous plants. Common. [Mid. Carolina.]
This mould is usually found springing from Sclerotmm /lirjim, which would
seem to be the condensed mycelium of this species.
1 8 0 2 . P o ly a c t is fa s c ic u la z is . Corda. “ Fasciculate Polyactis.”
Tufts minute, black-brown, shining, frosted above; flocci
erect, fastigiate, slightly flexuose, crowded, brown, semi-pellucid
above and branches colourless heads of spores sphærical,
white, shining ; spores oblong.—Quehett Journ. 1870, t. 6.
Corda. Muced. t. 16. Pénicillium fasciculatum. Ann. N.H. no.
129. Berk. exs. no. 210.
On decayed vegetable substances.
The spores are oomparatively large, and the flocoi connate at the base.
Gen. 2 3 5 . P EN IC IL L IUM , Link.
va r. (3. c o z em ium .
stem.—Fioccarla glauca
Dan. t. 897,/. 1.
Flocci divided above in a fasciculate
manner, septate, as well as the branchlets,
which are terminated by necklaces
of spores, collected into tassellike
heads.—Berh. Outl. p. 350.
{Fig.219.)
1 8 0 3 . P en ic illium czu sta ceum .
Fr. “ Grustaceous Mould.”
Sterile flocci white, forming a close
crust-like web, fertile somewhat
branched, intricate, hifido-penicillate
above ; sporidia verdigris-green.—
Berh. Eng. FI. v. p. 344. P. glaucum.
Grev. t. 58, f . l .
On all sorts of decaying bodies.
Very common.
Fertile flocci, woven into a dense white
Grev. t. 301. Byssus scoparia. FI.