S PO R O T R IC H U M m in u tu m .
Minute white Sporotrichum.
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C l a s s a n d O r d e r CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Linn N a t . O r d . BVSSOWEÆ,
MUCEDINES, Link.
GEN ERIC CHARACTER.
Thallus cæspitosus vel effusus. Fila ramosa, implexa, sporidiis simplicibus globosis
aut ovalibus vage inspersis.
Thallus tufted or effused. Filaments branched, entangled. Sporidia simple,
globose or oval, scattered without order among the filaments.
S P E C IF IC CHARACTER.
S p o r o t r i c h u m minutum ; thallus subrotundus, minutus, candidus,Jilis laxe in-
tricatis, sporidiis ovalibus, numerosis, candidis.
Sp. thallus roundish, minute, very white, the filaments loosely interwoven ;
sporidia oval, numerous, white.
S p o r o t r i c h u m m i n u t u m , Grev. in WeVn. Trans, v . 4 . p . 6 8 . t . 5 . f . 1 —
Ejusd. Fl. Fdin. p . 4 6 4 .
H ab. On dung and putrid substances. Autumn and winter. Braid Hermitage.
Tiifts distinct, about half a line broad, roundish, at length contiguous, rarely
confluent, very white. Filaments lax, not much branched, jointed, pellucid.
Sporidia numerous, oval, large for the size of the plant.
With this species, no one described either by L i n k in his
Monograph, or by P e r s o o n in Mycologia Europcea, can be
confounded. The oval sporidia are alone sufficient to distinguish
i t ; all the other species of a white colour, and tufted
form, have globose ones.
/OS' Fig. 1. a, Sporotrichum minutum, nat. size, b. Filaments and sporules, magni-
fo d .