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brown, or umber; mass of spores clear yellow, ochraceous, or
tinged with brown, spores globose, very minutely verruculose,
8—11 g diameter.
Rost., Mon., p. 225, figs. 25, 28, 29, 30; Cooke, Myx. Brit.,
p. 55, figs. 25, 28, 29, 30; Schroeter, p. 104.
Licea tenidssima, B. and Br., Fungi of Ceylon, in Journ. Linn.
Soc., Vol. xiv., p. 86 (Hb. B., n. 10858).
Licca cinnaharina, B. and Br., Ceylon Fungi, in Journ. Linn.
Soc., Vol. xiv., p. 86 (Herb. Berk., 10854).
Ostracoderma spadiceum, Schwein. (specimen so named by
Schweinitz in Herb. Berk., 10864).
Cornuvia Scliweinitzii, Berk, in Herb.
f e k c .—Ellis, N. Amer. Fung., 335.
On dead wood. Britain (Oxford, Leicester, Eltham Park,
Scarborough, Glamis, N. B.); France; Germany; Italy; Belgium;
Hungary; Algeria; United States; Ceylon; Australia.
The crowded sporangia form compact cakes of irregular form,
varying from a | to 1 | in. across, and about 1 mm. thick.
The surface is generally chestnut-brown, often with olive shade,
and minutely rugulose. The hypothallus often extends considerably
beyond the sporangia. Differs from G. cinnaba-
rinum in the verruculose spores, and from C. Bcrheleyi in
the absence of wings to the triangular supports of the apex
of the sporangium.
(Rostafinski’s Synonyms.)
Fuligo plumbea, FL Dan., 1976, f. 1 (1803).
Beticularia plumbea, Fr., S. M., iii. 88 (1829).
lAeea rugulosa, Wallr., FL Germ., 2107 (1833).
Licea applanata. Berk.. Hook Journ. (1845); B. and Br.,
Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 313; Cke, Hdbk., n. 1195.
Lycogala lenticulare, D. R. and M., FL Alg,, 401 (1846).
Beticularia lenticularis, Mort., Herb.
Dictydiaethalium applanatum, Rost., in Fckl., Symb 2 Naoh
69 (1873).
Clathroptychiain. 53
Clathroptychium Berkeleyi, Mass. (n. sp.).
Hypothallus stout, not extending beyond the sporangia,
which are densely crowded, forming cakes 1—3 cm. across,
and 1'5—2 mm. thick, very minutely and indistinctly rugulose,
brownish-olive; apices of sporangia almost plane, supported by
5—6 triangular, hollow threads, which are strongly winged at the
angles, free edges of wings eroded; mass of spores dirty olive;
spores globose, warted, warts with a tendency to become elongated,
10—13 p, diameter.
Licea cylindrica, Fr., Berk, and Br., Fungi of Ceylon, Journ.
Liim. Soc., Vol. xiv., p. 86.
(Type in Herb. Berk., n. 10857 a.)
On wood. Ceylon.
The large spores with the warts showing a tendency to
become elongated and form ridges, and the strongly-winged
threads supporting the apices of the sporangia characterize the
present species.
Clathroptychium einnabarinum, Sacc.
Sporangia prismatic, broadly diffused, closely crowded,
3—j mm. high, vivid vermilion, above (operculum) blackish-
purple, rather shining, sessile, rising erect from a hypothallus;
spores globose, smooth, 9—12 g diameter, vermilion, guttulate;
threads descending from the operculum, filiform, thickish,
fuliginous.
Sacc., in Michelia, I., p. 545; Sacc., Syll., Vol. vii., pt. I.,
n. 1397.
On decayed oak wood. North Italy. Forming flattened
heaps, 4—6 cm. long. Differs from Clathroptychmm rugulosum
in the different colour of the mature plant, the narrow, prismatic
sporangia, and smooth, vermilion spores.
The vermilion colour and smooth spores suggest the possibility
of the present being an immature condition of some
species.
Clathroptychium dissiliens, Hazl.
Sporangia forming a rotund or oval cushion, 2—5 mm.