i ^ G E R I T A CANDIDA.
White JEgerita.
C la s s a n d O r d e r CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, L * « « . - N a t . O r d . GASTROMYCI!
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G EN E R IC C HARAC T ER .
Sporidia globosa, laxe incumhentia receptáculo rotundato grumoso,
Sporidia globose, laxly produced on the surface of a rounded grumose receptacle.
S P E C IF IC CHARAC TER .
jF g e r it a candida; candida hemisplmrica glabra; sporidiis inaqualibus.
M. wliite, hemispherical, glabrous; sporidia unequal.
jF g e r it a candida, Pers. Disp. Meth. Fung. p. 40 Syn. Fung. p. 684.—
AU,. et Schwein. p. 355.~Nees, Syst. p. 7. t. 2 . f. 24,.—Mart. Fl. Frlang.
p. 326— Schwein. Fung. Carol. No. 1274.
S c l e r o t ium jEgerita, Hoffm. Fl. Cerm. 2. t. 9. f. I .
H ab. On damp decaying wood ; frequent in autumn.
Plants very minute, about the size o f tobacco-seed, scattered, white, hemispherical,
glabrous, composed o f a grumose roundish receptacle, upon
which the globose unequal sporidia are loosely disposed.
A very minute plant, first observed in Scotland by my
friend Captain C a r m i c h a e l . P e r s o o n does not seem to
have observed the sporidia, which are globose, and, in the specimens
which I have examined, unequal in size.
Fig. I. a, JFgerita Candida, natural size, b, A group o f plants, c, A plant
divided, d, Sporidia; magnified.
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