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C E R A Ï 1 U M HYDNOIDES.
Hydnoid Ceratium.
C l a s s a n d O r d e r CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Unn.—N a t . O e d . BYSSOIDEÆ,
Gr«».—MUCEDINES, Linli.
G EN E R IC CHARAC TER .
“ Stroma elongatum, ramosum, membranaceum, plicatum,' Jloccis inspersum simplicibus.
Sporidia Jloccis insidentia.”—L i n k .
Stroma elongated, branched, membranaceous, plicate, with scattered, simple
filaments. Sporidia lying among the filaments.
S P E C IF IC c h a r a c t e r .
C e r a t i u m h y d n o i d e s ; congestum; stroma erectum, subconfiuens, ramis simplicibus
vel divisis, sæpe fasciculatis.
C. crowded; stroma e re c t; subconfluent; branches simple or divided, often
fasciculate.
Ceratium hydnoides. Alb. et Schmein. p. 358. t. 2. f. 7.— Link, in Berl. Mag.
V. 3. p. 20. t. 1. f. 33.—Nees, Syst. t. 7- f- 82.—Schmein. Fung. Carol.
No. 1 2 g i— De Cand. Fl. Franç. v. 6. p. 11.—Pers. Mtjcol. v. 1. p. 43__
Grev. Fl. Fdin. p. 466.
I saria mu c id a . Pars. Comment, p. 100.— Syn. Fung. p. 688.
E e t i c u l a r ia h y d n o i d e s . With. Bot. Arr. e d . 6 . v. 4 . p. 4 6 0 . Jide Purt.__
Purt. Midi. Fl. V. 2. p. 704.
Clavaria byssoides. Sow. Fung. t. 335.
Clavaria Puccinia, Batsch. Elench. Fung. p. ISQ.— Mich. Gen. Nov. PI. t 02
f. 2. ?
P u c c in ia byssoides, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 2. p. 1462.7 ? * Pers.
H ab. On rotten wood, rarely on mosses, dead leaves, &c. Spring to Autumn.
Plant about a line in height, of a yellowish-white colour, crowded in small
tufts, and mostly confluent at the base. The whole of each plant may
be considered as a stroma, or general receptacle, which is elongated,
and either nearly simple or variously branched : when branched, it is
often divided in a somewhat palmate or fasciculate manner, the branches
being mostly quite simple, and obtuse at the apex, and beset, as is the
whole plant, with minute bristles, whose use seems to be, to disperse
the sporidia with an elastic force. The substance is gelatinous. The
structure seems to consist of a gelatinous mass, mixed with minute bodies,
inclosed and supported b y a plicate, fibrous membrane, of exceed-
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