134 AN HISTORY OF FUNGUSIES.
CLXXII. MUCOR unBuofiis flavus. Sp. PI. 16.56. Schcef.Fung. t. 194.
ßpttcus. Mich. Gen. t. 96, fig. 2. Flor. Dan. 778. Relban, Flor.
P- 475- -No. 994. Hall. Hiß. 2133. Hud/on, Angl. 647.
Lightfoot, Scot. 1073.
F R O T H Y MO U L D .
T A E. CXXXIV.
'T^HIS is found in patches, of various ihapes and various
fizesj fometimes as large as the palm of a man's hand,
the furface is irregular, the margin fwelled out, here and there,
into uneven and unequal lobes. I have feen fmaller fpecimens
which are white, and moft frequently of an oblong figure, as
is expreffed on the upper blade of grafs in the plate. Thefe,
I fuppofe, are the plant in its fir ft ftage; when further grown,
it is of a yellow or golden colour. In both ftates it is of a
frothy fubftane'e, and looks not unlike Barm or Yeaftj touched
it dilfolves in a cream-like frothy fubftancc, In the fpace of
a day or two it dries, and changes to a black footy powder,
replete with globular feeds, adhering to black, downy, elaftic
filaments.
Grows in woods, on grafs and other herbage.near the
ground, and appears not like a plant, but like matter that had
been accidentally fpilt there. This fpecimen grew on withered
grafs, and the'low dying branch of an hedge rofe, which
were entangled together, in Woodhoufe-Wood, near Halifax,
Auguft 3, 1782.