On decaying plants.
A very beautiful and not uncommon species, often of a ruddy pink rather
than vermiliion. (Fig. 305, magnified.)
Gen. 2 7 2 . SY Z Y G IT E S , Ehrb.
Threads branched above;
vesicles of separate branches
conjugating and forming a
distinct sporangium.—Berh.
Outl.p. 408. {Fig. 306.)
1 9 0 0 . S y z y g it e s lu e g a lo c a r -
p u s . Ehl). “ Conjugating
Syzygites.”
Tnfts effused, irregular,
dingy; olive-brown or glaucous
; flocci intricate. Aliform,
c y s tom o rp h o u s ;
branches large, clavate, in-
, flated, at flrst flesh coloured,
tüen dingy ; sporangia brown, verrucose, shining ; spores ovate,
^ P- Lorda Pracht. t. 24. Bisch.
f .W M . Nees.t.b. (Fig. 306.)
On decaying agarics.
Gen. 2 7 3 .
Fig. 307.
ENDOGONE, Link.
Hypogasous ; flocci collected into a globose,
spongy mass ; vesicles globose, solitary,
or collected in little fascicles at the
ends of the branches.—Fr. S.M. ii.p. 295.
Tul. Hyp.p. 181. Berh. Outl.p. 408.
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1 9 0 1 . E n d o g o n e p is ifo zm is . Link. “ Pea-shaped Endogone.”
Irregularly globose, yellowish, dry ; vesicles large, visible to
the naked eye.—Link. Obs. t. 2 ,f. 52. Tul. Hyp. p. 183, t. 20, f.
1. Corda. Ic. vi. t. 9,f. 94. Corda. Anl. t. c.f. 40, no. 4,5. B. &
B r Ann. N.H. xviii.yj. 81. Berh. Outl. t. 24, f . 7. Gard. Chron.
14 Mar. 1845.
Amongst moss and in the superficial soil; under beech and
larch, and in oak and hazel woods.
I t, i, vouiw state it is hard, when old less compact and gramdated. About
th e size o f a p e a. Tulasne seems to re g a rd th e B ritis h p la n t as Biidoifoiie
macrocarya.—Tul.
1 9 0 2 . E n d o g o n e la c tiflu a . B . 4 B r. “ Milky Endogone.”
Irregular, globose, depressed, white, then dingy flesh-colour,
foetid, replete with a thick isabelline juice ; vesicles distinct to
the naked e y e .-B . 4 Br. Ann. N.H. xvm. p. 81. Berh. Outl. p.
409. Tul. Hyp. p. 183.
On the ground. Oct. Chudleigh.
rinKecio nt lanvth denressed, half an in. in diameter ; at firat white, but
s o o n e s p e c i a V y w t n Assuming a reddish tinge, ponnng out when
c T a rich, pale-red, cream-Uke fluid j sporangia as large as those of-B.
pisiformis.