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CENANGIUM f e r r u g i n o s u m .
Ferruginous Cenangium.
C l a s s a n d O r d e r CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, ü « k . _ N a t . O r d . FU NG IÍ Grev.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Recepiaculum clausum, demum plus minus apertum, inferne centro adfxum. H y menium
loeve, discolor ; thecisjixis.
Receptacle closed, at length more or less open, attached by the centre beneath.
Hymenium smooth, of a different colour ; thecæ fixed.
S PEC IF IC CHARACTER.
Cenan gium ferruginosum ; ' “ gregaria, coriaceo-memhranaceum, subsessile,
rugosum, subpruinosum, cervino-nigrescens, ore compresso, inflexo, húmido
patiilo, disco /wíeícewíe.”— F r ie s .
C. gregarious, between membranaceous and leathery, subsessile, rugose,
somewhat pruinose, reddish-black, the orifice compressed, inflexed,
when moist spreading, the disk yellow.
C ena n g ium ferruginosum. Fries, in Vet. Ac. Handl. 1818, p. SGl.— Sclerom.
Suec. No. 292— Syst. 2. p. 187.
T r ie l id eu m p in e um , Pers. Myc. Furop. 1. p . 332.
P e z iz a Abietis, Pers. Syn. p . 671.— B e Cand. Ft. Franç. v . 6. p . 20.—Moug.
et Nestl. Fxsicc. No. 399.—Alb. et Schrv. p . 342— Schwein. Fung. Carol.
No. 1250.
P e z iz a c e rv in a , Pers. Syn. p . 647.
H a b . On the smaller branches of the Scots Fir (Pinus sylvestris), in autumn,
very frequent.
Plant a t firs t re s em b lin g a Sphceria (a s F r ie s h a s w e ll r em a r k e d .) The
cupulæ a r e c o ria c eo u s , ro u n d is h , o r s lig h t ly a n g u la r , n e a rly s e s sile , o r
s om ew h a t s tip ita te , c lo se d , a t le n g th o p e n , a n d b e c om in g m o re o r le ss
e x p a n d e d , 1—2 lin e s b ro a d , th e hymenium o f a p a le g re e n is h -y e llow ,
b la c k is h w ith o u t, a n d m o re o r le ss s p r in k le d w ith a r e d d i s h p u lv e r u le
n t su b s ta n c e . Thecce in te rm ix e d w ith paraphyses, e lo n g a te d , filifo rm ,
- fix ed , c o n ta in in g n um e ro u s s p o rid ia o f a n o v a l fo rm .
Cenangium is a genus instituted by M. F r i e s , and contains
30 species, either new, or derived from tbe genera Peziza,
Sphceria, and Hysteria of otber authors. His character, as
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