On rotten sticks, dung, &c.
To the naked eye very like a small Stemonitis. The stem is compounded
of distinct parallel, septate threads. (Fiÿ. 272.)
Gen. 2 3 8 . M O N IH A , Hill.
Flocci erect, jointed ; head
none ; bearing fasciculate necklaces
of spores at their apices.—
Berh. Outl.p. 351. {Fig. 273.)
1819. M o n ilia fa sc ic u la ta .
Corda. “ Fasciculate Monilia.”
Grey, scattered, gregarious,
simple ; heads of spores lax, somewhat
drooping ; spores moniliform.
■—Berh. Outl. p. 351. Briarea elegans.
Corda. St. iii. t. 6. Monilia
penicillata. Fng. FI.y.p. 344. Grev.
Fig. 273. t- 32.
On dead grass.
Dark grey, flooci articulate, constricted at the articulations, head drooping
in consequence of the weight of the spores.—Eng. F l. (Fig. 273.J
1 8 2 0 . M o n ilia zacemosa. Purt. “ Eacemose Monilia.”
Flocci cæspitose, branched in a racemose manner ; chains of
sporidia lateral and terminal, ternate.—Berh. Eng. Fl. Y .p . 345.
Monilia cæspitosa. Purt. iii. t. 34. Mucor coespitosus. Bolt. 1.132,
/ . 2. Aspergillus terrestris. Mich. t. 91,/. 4.
On decaying substances.
Gen. 2 3 9 . DACTYI.IVM, Nees.
Flocci erect, jointed, branched,
bearing at the tips of the branchlets,
either scattered or in tufts,
septate spores.—Berh. Outl. p. 351.
{Fig. 274.)
1821. D a c t y l i u m p y z i f e z u m . Fr. “ Pear-seeded Dactylium.”
Flocci aggregate, white, here and there branched ; sporidia
pyriform, septa evanescent.—B e r k .E n g ,F I . y . p. 345.
On decaying stems of herbaceous plants.
“ Forming little white confluent tufts ; flocci very slightly branched; sporidia
often lateral, shaped exactly like a grape seed the
tion filled with a granulate mass, the lower pellucid, and apparently sohd.
M.J.B.
1 8 2 2 . D a c t y l i u m t e n e l l u m . Fr. “ Small Dactylium.”
Flocci aggregate, white, fertile flocci branched, somewhat verticillate
; spores quaternate, obovate, septate. Fr. S.M. m. p.
413. B. ¿i Br. A n n .N .H .n o .5 3 6 .
On moss. March. Dundee.
A small and beautiful species, scarcely visible to the naked eye.
1 8 2 3 . D a c ty lium ma c zo sp o zum . Fr. “ Large-spored
Daotylium.”
Flocci aggregate, white and rose-coloured; branchlets of the
fertile flocci very short, suh-verticillate, ending in obovate-cylin-
dric, snbternate, now and then septate spores. Fr. S.M. m .p .
414. E ng. F I . y . p . 345. Sturm. t.5<5.
On the ground, amongst moss, &c. [Low. & Mid. Carolina.]
1 8 2 4 . D a c ty lium sph a e zo cep h a lum . Berh. “ Kound-headed
Dactylium.”
White; hyphasma thin, decumbent; fertile flocci erect, more
or less ternate above, heads subglobose, 10-12 spored ; spores
oblong, very shortly pedicellate, 3-septate.—Ann. N.H. no. 243.
1.14, f . 27.
On dead twigs of ivy. Lambley, Norths. ^
^ K m o w X o v e h k n c h e d i n am o r e or le ss te rn a te m a n n e r ; b ra n cH e ts
i s r . r l 3
1 8 2 5 . D a c t y l i u m d en d zo id e s. Fr. “ Tree-like Daotylium.”
Flocci aggregate, very much branched, white, branchlets racemose;
spores terminal, ohovate-cylindrical, septate.—®r.