1 ' AB Esenbeck, unless after actual examination. Stachyli-
1 ■ I liave little hesitation in regarding as distinct, especially
1 as tw'o species have been discovered, each equally remarkable.
i
Fig. 1. a, B. agaricina, nat. size, b. Filaments aud sporidia, magnified.
1 !
j B O T R Y T IS DIFFUSA.
Long-racemed B o try tis.
\1 1 SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
1 B. candida, ramosa; ramis hnge lateque diffusis, ramnlis undique in racemos
dhpositis, racemuligeris.—A ld . et Schwèin.
1 B. white, branched ; branches long and widely spreading, ramuli forming
racemes on every side, and bearing numerous small clusters of sporidia.
B o t r y t i s diffusa. Jib. et Schwein. Conspect. Fung. p. 362. ■ Grev. in Wern
Trans, v. 4. p. 72. t. 5. f. 7—Ejusd. Fl. Edin. p. 4,68— Pers. Mycol. v. 1.
p. 36.
----- ^ -----|yiaiits, ixi ciutuilill.
Near Edinburgh.
Ttifts two or three lines high, lax, confluent, beautifully white, often spreading
on decaying stems of plants for an inch or more continuously. Filaments
jointed, naked towards their base, and somewhat entangled, divided
upwards dichotomously into long, arched and spreading branches,
clothed at nearly regular intervals with very short branchlets, each bearing
a cluster of m inute, globose sporidia.
Extremely beautiful, aud much larger than any other B o try
tis I am acquainted with. The ramuli which support the
clusters of sporidia, appear, from their shortness, to he little
more than pedicels to the clusters.
Ejg. 2, a, Botiytis diffusa, nat. size, b, Filaments, magnified.