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STACHYLIDIUM t e r r e s t r e .
White branched Stachylidium.
C l a s s a n d O r d e r CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, £w m .— N a t . O r d . BYSSOIDEM,
Grev.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Flocci fertiles erecti, basi sterilibus implexi ; ramuli superne verticiUati, breves,
obtusi. Sporidia ad verticilhs congesta.
Fertile filaments erect, entangled -with the sterile ones at the base; the ramuli
whorled towards the top, short, obtuse. Sporidia clustered at the
whorls.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
S t a c h y l id ium t e r r e s t r e ; Jlocci ramosi, erecti, albi, sporidiis globosis.
S. filaments branched, erect, white, the sporidia globose.
S t a c h y l id ium terrestre. Link, in Bot. Mag. v. 3. p. 15. t. 1. f. 21.
S tachylidium can d id um , Grev. in Wern. Trans, v. 4. p. 72. t. 5. f. 6.'
Edin. p. 466.
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Botrytis te rre s tre , Fries, Myc. Fur. 1. p. 38.
H ab. On the ground, and on rotten wood. Autumn. Near Edinburgh.
Spreading on the ground, or on rotten wood, for an inch or more together,
b u t in a somewhat scattered manner; of a white colour. Sterile Jilaments
decumbent, entangled. Fertile ones erect, branched, remotely jointed,
attenuated at the base ; towards the summit set with several whorls
composed of four very short, inflated, obtuse branchlets. Sometimes one
of the branchlets elongates into a branch, and then becomes whorled
like the rest. Sporidia small, globose, aggregated at each whorl.
Stachylidium is a very pretty little genus established b y
the eminent Professor L i n k , in the 3d volume of the Berlin
Magazine; and though it has been reduced by P e r s o o n , it is
supported by Professor N e e s a b K s e n b e c k , by M. A u o e f h e
B r o n g n i a r t , in his “ Classification naturelle des Champignons,”
in the Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, and,
lastly, by M. F r ie s in his new work, the Systema Orbis Ve-
getabilis. With such authorities on my side, I have not he-
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