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TRICHIA RETICULATA.
Reticulated Trichia.
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C la s s a n d O b d e i i CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, im « . _ N A T O b d . GASTROMYCI,
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GENERIC character.
Peridium simplex, memhranaceum, persistens, apice irregulariter rumpens. Sporidia
inspersa ßoccis versus basin adnatis, intortis, elaslice sese expandenti-
bus.
Peridium simple, membranaceous, persistent, bursting irregularly at the
apex. Sporidia scattered among the filaments, which are fixed to the
base, and expand elastically.
S P E C IF IC c h a r a c t e r .
T richia r e tic u la ta ; effusa, angusta, peridio serpente reticulum irreguläre fo r mante,
castaneo.
T. efiused, narrow, the peridium creeping, forming an irregular network,
chesnut coloured.
T richia re tic u la ta , Pers. Syn. Fung. p. 182.—Icon, et Descript. Fung. Fasc. 2.
p. 46. 1 .12. f. l.—Nees, Syst. p. 31. t. 10. f 111— Grev. Fl. Fdin. p . 454.
Schwein. Fung. Carol. No. 393.
L ycogola c o n to rtum , Ditm. in Deutschl. Fl. (Fungi) , t. 5.
L ycoperdon lum b rica le , Batsch. Flench. Fung. Cont. 1. p. 259. f- 174.—
Willd. Fl. Berol. p. 414.
H ab. On rotten tru n k s of trees, and similar situations, very rare. A t Caroline
Park, near Edinburgh.
Plant soft and pulpy when young, effused, and running into narrow lines,
which anastomose, and thus form an irregular network. Peridium narrow,
o f a chesnut colour, somewhat depressed, sometimes instead o f
forming a network creeping in contorted wavy lines, very thin, bursting
irregularly. Sporidia b rig h t yellow, plentiful, globose.
1 am Jiappy in being able to represent so rare a species as a
specimen of the genus Trichia, constituted by the illustrious
H a l i . e r , and defined as we have given it by the indefatigable
F r i e s in his Systema Orbis Vegetahilis. P e r s o o n charac-
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