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containing numerous cell-like aggregations of protoplasm, while
the inner portion gives origin to the tubes of the capillitium
which originate from the oell-like masses of protoplasm.
Rostafinski’s generic diagnosis of Dermodium is altogether
misleading, inasmuch as it implies that we are dealing with a
single sporangium, whereas in Rostafinski’s own specimens the
plasmodiocarp structure is distinct. Furthermore it is very
doubtful as to whether the present species is anything more
than Lycogala epidendrum. I t is certain that Lycogala atropur-
purcum, B. and Br., and Lycogala nitidum, B. and Br., referred
to the present species by Ro.stafinski, both belong to Lycogala
epidendrum.
On rotten wood. Sweden ; Germany; Ceylon.
(Rostafinski’s Synonyms.)
Lycogala conica, Pers., Syn., 159 (1801).
Lycogala conicum, Fr., S. M., iii., 82 (1829).
Lycogala atropurpureum, B. and Br., Ceylon Fungi, II.,
n. 735.
Lycogalc nitidum, B. and Br., Ceylon Fungi, II., n. 734.
Lycogala flavo-fuscum, Rost. (fig. 123).
Plasmodiocarp hemispherical or elongated, 3—9 cm. diameter,
cortex smooth or slightly wrinkled when dry, yellow-brown,
bright chestnut-brown, or greyish-umber; mass of spores greyish-
umher or with a flesh-coloured tin g e ; tubes of capillitium
rather scanty, almost colourless, 4—5 g thick, slightly rugulose
m' with indistinctly raised bands, sparingly branched; spores
globose, very minutely warted, 5 g diameter.
Ijycogala flavo-fuscum, Rost., Mon., p. 288; Cooke, Brit. Myx.,
p. 76; Sacc., Syll, no. 1483 ; Zopf, p. 167.
On stumps and trunks. Britain (King’s Cliffe); Europe;
United States; Ceylon.
A large species, usually solitary, distinguished from Z. cp f
dendrum by the smooth cortex and the scanty capillitium with
thinner tubes and rudimentary ornamentation.
(Rostafinski’s Synonyms.)
D m h t h e r iu m f la v o - fu s c u m , Ehr., Syl., p. 27 (1818).
Beticularia favo-fusca, Fr., S. M., iii., p. 88 (1829) ; B. and Br.,
Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 591.
B e t i c u la r ia te s ta cea , Wallr., FL Germ., 209 (1833).
Lycogala oohraceum, Mass. (n. sp.).
Plasmodiocarp sessile, sub-glpbose, gregarious, springing from
a firm broadly effused hypothallus, ochraceous, at first smooth,
becoming minutely furfuraceous; mass of spores very
ochraceous; capillitium scanty, tubes sparingly branched, with
a few indistinctly raised bands, 5 g diameter, collapsing, spores
globose 3-5 - 4 g diameter, minutely and sparsely verruculose.
On rotten wood. Bahia; Java. (Challenger exped.)
(Type in Herb. Berk., Kew.)
Often densely gregarious and variously angular from mutual
pressure, at other times larger and scattered; from o- 2 o cm.
diameter.
Lycogala minutum, Sacc. and Paol.
Plasmodiocarp gregarious, superficial, sessile, base narrow
o-loboso-depressed, 4— 5 mm. broad, smooth (not punctate),^ at
In g th with crowded, very minute depression,, yellow,^ becoming
ochraceous- hypothallus scanty, white, mucedinous, tubes ot
capillitium’ filiform, short, subsimplc, hyaline; spores g o ose,
asvcrulose, 3 g diameter, yellow, then colourless.
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Tome V I, Ser. V I, p. 3, t 5 ,1 1 i S.ec, Syll, n. 1486.
On fallen decorticated rotten branches. Malacca.
Apparently closely allied to Lycogala ochraccum, but distinguished
by the scanty mucedinous hypothallus and in the cortex
not becoming furfuraceous.
Lycogala rufo-cinnamomeum, Mass. (n. sp.).
Plasmodiocarp hemispherical, gregarious, -5 - 1
s u r fa c e sm o o th , ochraceous or greyish, sometimes with tin .