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Red Agyrium.
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G EN ERIC CHARACTER.
Receptaculum homogeneum, ceraceum, humidum gelatinosum, innato-sessile, sphoe-
ricum, læve, undique glabrum et fructificans superficie in sporidia demum fa -
tiscenie.—F h i e s .
Receptacle homogeneous, wax-like, gelatinous when moistened, innato-ses-
sile, round, even, the whole surface glabrous and fructifying, the exte-
rior at length dissolving into sporidia.
S PEC IF IC CHARACTER.
A g y r iu m r u f u m ; gregarium convexum vel sphoericum, compactum, humidum
incarnatum, siccum rufo-fuscum.— F r i e s .
A. gregarious, convex or spherical, compact, red when moist, reddish-
brown when dry.
A g y r iu m r u f u m . Fries, Syst. Mycol v. 2. p . 232.
S t i c t i s rufa, Pers. Ohs. Mycol. 2. p. 74. t. 6. f. 6.—Mycol. Furop. 1. p. 338.
T r e m e l l a Stictis, Pers. Syn. Fung. p. 628— Alb. et Schwein. p. 304__
Schwein. Fung. Carol. No. 1146.
H a b . On old dry dead wood, especially o f Fir-trees. Appin, Captain C a r -
MICHAEL. At all seasons.
Plant gregarious, minute, about one-thii-d of a line in breadth, innate-sessile,
convex, or nearly spherical, varying in colour when moist from rather
pale to dark red, when dry reddish-brown or nearly black. In
substance compact, firm, homogeneous. The whole surface is smooth,
even, covered with fructification, a t length dissolving away into sporidia.
Each plant is generally seated on a little whitish spot. Sporidia
oval.
Agyrium is a good and natural genus established by F r i e s
in his Systema Mycologicum. The species are six in number,
of which the present one was formerly a Stictis, and another a
Tremella. They are all minute, gregarious, produced on wood,
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