LYCOGOLA ARGENTEA.
Large silvery Lycogola.
C l a s s a n d O r d e r CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, i m n .— N a t . O r d . GASTROMYCI,
Link, Grev.
' GEN ERIC CHARACTER.
Plantuloe ( sporangia J sessiles, glohosæ vel difformes, prima oetate subjluidoe.
Peridium simplex, fragile, irregulariter rumpens. Sporulæ Jtlamentis paucis
intermixtæ.
Small plants (sporangia) sessile, globose or irregular, at first almost fluid.
Peridium simple, fragile, variously bursting. Sporules intermixed with
a few filaments.
S PE C IF IC CHARACTER.
L ycogola a rg e n te a ; submagna, loevis, ovato-depressa vel rotundata, fra g ilissima,
argentea ; sporulis globosis, fusco-purpureis valde copiosis.
L. rather large, smooth, ovate and depressed, or roundish, very fragile, silvery
white ; sporules globose, purplish-brown, very copious.
L ycogola argentea, Pers. Disp. Meth. Fung. p. 7.—Ejusd. Syn. p . 157.—
Albert et Schmein. p. 85.—De Cand. Fl. Franç. ed. 3. v. 2. p. 262.—Ejusd.
Syn. p. 55.—Schmein. Syn. Fung. Carol. No. 352.—Hook. Fl. Scot. 2. p. 11.
— Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. 1. p. 568.—Grev. Fl. Edin. p. 453.
L ycogola griseum majus, Mich. Gen. PI. Nov. p. 216. t. 95- f 1-
R e t i c u l a r i a Lycoperdon, Bull. Champ, p. 95. t. 446. f. 4. e t t. 476. f. 1.—Som.
Fung. t. 272.—Relh. Fl. Cantab, ed. 3. p. 567.— With. Bot. Arr. ed. 6.
V. 4. p. 459.— Winch, Bot. Guide, v. 2. p. 107.— Purt. Midi. Fl. v. 2. p. 704.
e t V. 3. p. 484.
L y c o p e r d o n f u s c u m , Huds. FL Angl. v. 2. p . 645.
M u c o r ly c o g o lu s . Bolt. Fung. t. 133. (very bad).
M u c o r carneus, Schceff. Fung. t. I 95. f. 3.
H ab. O n r o tt e n w o o d , tr u n k s o f tre e s , d e a d m a ss e s o f le av e s a n d s tic k s , &c.
n o t u n f r e q u e n t th r o u g h o u t th e k in g d om . A u tum n .
Sporangium mostly o f an ovate form, and considerably depressed, but at
other times roundish, half an inch to two inches broad, pulpy at first,
and even fluid within, at length dry, membranaceous, remarkably fragile,
and filled with a prodigious quantity o f purplish-brown globose sporules,
intermixed with a few filaments. Colour white, with a silvery
lustre, at length brownish. Dehiscence extremely irregular, often in wide
and long cracks.
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