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BOTRYTIS NIGRA.
Black Botrytis.
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C la s s a n d O r d e r CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Linn.—N a t . O r d . BYSSOIDEJE.
B o t r y t i s , T r i b . I II . P a n i c u l a t i , Fries.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Flocci septati, liberi, fertiles erecti apicibus simplicibus. Sporidia simplicia, circa
ramos apicesve collecta.—Fries.
Flocci jointed, free, the fertile ones erect, with simple summits. Sporidia
simple, collected about the branches and summits.
SPECIFIC character.
B o t r y t i s n ig r a ; effuso-ccEspitosa, nigra, fp c c is fertilibus subdicholome ramosis,
ramis erectis attenuatis; sporidiis globosis nigtis circa ramos collectis.
B. tufts widely effused, b la c k ; fertile flocci somewhat dichotomously
b ranched; the branches erect, atten u a ted ; sporidia globose, black, distributed
about the branches.
B o t r y t i s n ig ra . Link, in Berl. Mag. v. 3. p . 14. t. 1 . f. 19.—Fjusd. Sp. PI.
Willd. Cont. V. 6. Pt. 1 . p. 62.— Pers. Myc. Eur. 1 . p. 37-
V i r g a r i a n ig ra , Nees, Syst. p. 54. t. 4. f. 52.—Martius, Fl. Erlang, p. 342.
H ab. On the dead tru n k s and branches of trees. Appin, Captain Carmichael.
About Fdinburgh, not frequent.
Plant spreading in wide effused patches several inches in breadth, of an
extremely deep black colour. Fertile flocci 2-3 lines in height, very
slender, branched from near the base in a somewhat dichotomous mann
e r; the branches long, erect, virgate, attenuated to a fine point. Sporidia
globose, very copious, surrounding and attached to the branches.
F r i e s has justly observed, that Botrytis of authors, aud
many genera related to it, differ in the character of the ramification,
while in more important points they entirely agree : he
therefore proposes to unite the whole, and from the subordinate
characters to constitute tribes or suhgenera. The genera he
has thus reduced, are Cladohotryum, N e e s , Virgaria, N e e s ,
Spicularia, P e r s o o n , Polyactis, L i n k , Acladkm, L i n k ,
Haplaria, L i n k . The genus Stacliylidimi of N e e s is also