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mows near the apex, spores smooth, obscure violet, 11—12 g
diameter.
Ghondrioderma liceoides, Eost., Mon. Append., p. 17; Sacc.,
Syll., 1262. ■
On rotten gourd. Carolina.
(Eostafinski’s Synonyms.)
licea maerosperma, Sz., Am. Fung., no. 2317 (1834).
Ligynota nigra, Fr., Sm. Veg, Scan., p. 459 in notam, (1849).
C h o n d r i o d e r m a r e t i e u l a t u m , Rost.
Plasmodium sessile, vein-like, flattened, arcuate, combined into
an irregular netioorlc, seated on a whitish, delicate, reticulated,
spreading hypothalhis; columella absent; threads of capillitium
colourless, very thin, combined to form a dense net; spores smooth,
ob.scure violet, 7—8 g diameter.
Ghondrioderma retieulatum, Rost, Mon., p. 170.
On rotten branches of pine. Switzerland.
I have not seen the present species, but the description seems
to suggest that it may possibly be a plasmodiocarp form of
G. llichelii.
* * Sporangium coloured.
C h o n d r i o d e r m a o o h r a c e u m , Schroeter,
Sporangia sessile, irregular, globose, reniform, semicircular,
&c., 1—2 mm. long, 1 mm. across, densely gregarious, outer wall
ochraceous-broum, falling away in irregular sqnamules; inner
wall thin, colourless; columella absent; capillitium copious,
threads- 2—3 g thick, violet, smooth, straight or flexuous,
frequently anastomosing, and here and there forming a dense
reticulation; spores globose, indistinctly punctulate, blaokisb-
violet, 9—11 g diameter.
Chondrioderma ochraccum, Schroeter, Kr. FI., 124; Sacc,, Syll.,
V., 7, part, I., no. 1283.
On hepatics. Silesia.
C h o n d r i o d e r m a S a u t e r i , Rost.
Sporangia sessile, irregularly ellipsoid, depressed, blood-red,
shining; inner wall whitish-brown, dull; columella absent,
tlireads of the capillitium fasciculate but not forming a n e t;
spores pale violet, verruculose, 8—12 g diameter.
Ghondrioderma Sauteri, Rost., Mon., p. 181; Saoc., SylL, 1281.
Tyrol.
There is some difficulty iu ascertaining the exact meaning
of the colour of the sporangium as given by Rostafinski, who
calls it “ kawowo-mleczne,” I t is translated in Saccardo’s
Sylloge as “ sanguineo-lacteis.”
C h o n d r i o d e r m a v a c c i n n m , Rost.
Sessile, adnate, orbicular, outer wall thiclc, adnate, inner very
tliin, evanescent; columella absent; threads of capillitium
hyaline, delicate; spores pale brownish-violet, 10—11 g diameter,
minutely warted.
Ghondrioderma vaccinum, Rost., Mon., p. 180; Sacc., Syll.,
no. 1275.
Diderma vaccinum, Dur. et Mont., FL Alg., p. 407, t. 22 bis.,
f. 1; Mont., Syll., n. 1071.
(Type in Herb. Mus., Paris.)
On fallen branches of Opuntia. Algeria.
Externally bearing a close resemblance to Ghondrioderma
testaceum, but easily recognized by the absence of a columella;
Chondrioderma sublateritium is separated from the present species
in having the upper surface of the sporangium broadly umbilicate,
and iu the presence of a columella.
C h o n d r i o d e r m a s i m p l e x , Schroeter.
Sporangia sphaeroid, slightly flattened, scattered, simple,
rigid, fragile, bright chestnut; columella absent; tubes of capillitium
radiating, repeatedly diehotomous, violet; spores smooth,
bright violet, 7—9 g diameter.
Schroeter, Kr. FL Sohles. Pilze, p. 123; Sacc., SylL, 1272.
On dead trunks. Silesia.
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