A N G IO R ID IUM s i n u o s u m .
Flexuose Angioridium.
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C la s s a n d O b d e b CRYPTOGAMIA ALG®, Linn— GASTEROMYCETES,
O ed . II . T b ic h o sp e bm i ? Fries.
g e n e r ic c h a r a c t e r .
Peridium determinatum, simplex, papyraceum, fragile, verticali-compressum, rima
Imgitudinali rumpens. Sporidia carpusculis erectis linearibus ( plicis obso-
letis ? ) coacervata.
Peridium determinate, simple, papyraceous, fragile, vertically compressed,
bursting by a longitudinal fissure. Sporidia collected among linear
erect bodies (obsolete folds?).
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
A n g io r id ig m sinuosum; ..............................
R e t i c u l a r i a sinuosa. Bull. Champ, p . 9 4 . t . 4 4 6 . f . 3 .—Som. Fung. t . 6 .—
With. Bot. Arr. v. 4 . p . 4 6 0 . excl. syn. Batsch.
P h y s a r u m b iv a lv e , Pers. Obs. Myc. 1. p . 6- t. 3 . f. 2 ,- 3 . male.—Syn. Fung.
p. 169.
T r i c h i a sp h aerica, p o lym o rp h a , Trentep. in Both. Cat. Bot. v . 1. p . 230.
f d e Persoon.
H ad. On dead leaves, mosses, small sticks, &c. in woods, rare. Autumn.
Plant gregarious, of a white colour. Peridium about the eighth of an inch
in height, simple, sessile, papyraceous, somewhat rigid, fragile, rugu-
lose, varying in fo rm ; sometimes exactly like a roundish bivalve shell,
at others lengthened out at each extremity in a creeping, flexuose manner,
for half an inch or more, and either simple or divided. I t is, however,
always erect, and vertically compressed, the summit forming a
sharp edge. When mature, it bursts longitudinally, the two plates separating
at the margin.sufficiently to allow the sporidia to escape. Sporidia
globose, blackish, forming a compact mass, intermixed with linear,
erect, white, opaque bodies, which appear to be the fragments of
some organ not perfectly developed.
After a careful perusal of the genera of Gasteromycetes in
F r i e s ’s “ Systema Orbis Vegetabilis,” I cannot find any one
to which the present very curious plant may be referred. It is