Tubulina nitidissima, Berk., Journ. Linn. Soc., v. 18, p. 387
(from examination of type); Licea rubiformis, B. and Curt
(from exam, of type).
Licea microsperma, B. and C. (from exam, of type).
Exsicc.— SjA., Myc. March., 1498; Cke., Brit. Fung., ed ii
528; Karst., Myo. Fenn., 697; Fekl., F. Rhen., 1470- Roum ’
Fung. Gall, 3066; Ellis and Everh., N. A. Fung., ser. II. 209e’.
On wood. Forming compact cakes varying from half an inch
to a foot or more in diameter, varying from umber-brown to
chestnut, the surface granular with the convex apices of the
sporangia. When immature and pulpy, of a beautiful strawberry
colour. Hypothallus spongy, resembling when thick the
sterde base of a Lycoperdon. Dr. Rex considers that two
distinct species are confounded under the above name.
Britain (Apethorpe, Powerscourt, Brandon, Scarboro’, Carlisle,
Glamis, N. B.); Germany; France; Sweden; Finland;
Hungary; Belgium; United States; India; Ceylon; Australia.
(Rostafinski’s Synonyms.)
Tubmlifcra ccratum, FI. Dan., t. 659, f. 2 (1777).
Tubulifera arachnoidea, Jacq., Misc., t. 15 (1778).
ifitcor hibulosus, Retz.
Stemonitis ferruginca, Batsoh, I 175 (1786).
Sphaerocarpiis eylindrieus, Bull., t. 470, f. 3 (1791).
Sphaeroearpus fragiformis, Bull., t. 384 ? (1791).
Tubifera ferniginosa, Gmel, Syst. 1472 (1791).
Tubifera cylindrica, Gmel., Syst. 1472 (1791).
Tubifera fragiformis, Gmel., Syst. 1472 (1791).
Trichia fragiformis, With., Arr., iii. 480 (1792).
Tuhulifera coccinea, Trent., p. 243 (1797).
fficea tubulina, Schrad., N. G., 16 (1797).
Licea clavata, Schrad,. N. G., 18 (1797).
Tubulina fragiformis, Pers., Disp., p. 11 (1797); Pers., Syn,,
Tubulina fallax, Pers., Ohs., ii. 28 (1790).
Tubulima fragiformis, a. papillata, /3. 'clavata, y. eoniea, i.
coccinea, e. opcrculata: Pers., Ohs., ii. 29.
Beticularia multicapsula. Sow,, t. 179 (1799).
Tubulina cylindrica, D. C., Fi. F., 674 (1805).
Tubulina fragifera, Poir., Enoy., viii. No. 3 (1808).
Licea fragiformis, ideces,i. 102 (1816); Eng. FL, v. p. 321;
Cooke, Hdbk., 1194 ; Fuug. Brit., ii. 528.
Dermodium fallax, Nees, f. 103 (1816).
Licea cylindrica, Fr., S. Myc., iii. 195 (1829) ; Eng. FL, v. 391 ;
Cooke, Hdbk, No. 1193.
Licea iricolor, Zoll., in Flora (1847), p. 300.
Tubulina conglobata, Preuss., Linnaea, 140 (1851).
Tubulina effusa, Mass.
Aethalium naked, sporangia seated on a firm, common hypothallus,
irregular from mutual pressure, in a single stratum or
superposed, walls very thin, lustrous, grown together ; free apices
of sporangia slightly convex, giving the surface of the aethalium a
granular appearance ; mass of spores ochraceous-umber ; spores
globose, yellowish-brown, very indistinctly verruculose, 6—8 g
diameter.
Lindbladia effusa, Rost., Mon., p. 223 ; Schroet., p. 103 ; Cooke,
Myx. Brit., p. 55; Sacc., Syll., no. 1395.
On the ground and on wood. Britain (Leicester, Epping,
Scarboro’, Aboyne, Forres, Linlithgow); Germany; Sweden;
France ; Bohemia.
Often forming compact, flattened cakes extending for three
or four inches, sometimes much smaller ; superficially closely
resembling Tubulina cylindrica, hut the mass of spores with
a yellower tinge, and the present species also differs in the
shorter sporangia, which are not so uniform in their arrangement
as in T. cylindrica.
(Rostafinski’s Synonyms.)
Licea effusa, Ehr., Sylv., p. 26, f. i. (1818).
Aethalmm melaenum, Chev. Byss., iii. (1837).
Lindbladia tubulina, Fr., S. V. S., 449 (1849).
Aethalmm atrum, Preuss., Linnaea, 141 (1851).