68 MYXOMYCETES. 



Trichia chalybea, Chev. Fl. Par., t. 9, f. 24 (1827). 

 Trichia Neesiana, Corda Ic., i., f. 288 c (1837). 

 Trichia Ayresii, B. & Br. Ann. N. H., No. 390 ; Cooke Hdbk., 

 No. 1179. 



81. Hernia* cyaria clavata. (Pers) 



Sporangia simple, more or less clavate, yellow, sinning, with a 

 stem of the same colour, or reddish at the base ; mass of spores 

 and capillitium yellow, ochrey-yellow, or ochrey -olive, or else 

 brownish-ochre; tubes of elate r network -00415 mm. diaui., very 

 often forked, but not with numerous arms, which terminate in free 

 obtuse, now and then slightly swollen ends ; spirals five, very thin, 

 distinctly running on the outside, separated by intervening depres- 

 sions from two to three times as broad as the spirals ; spores '0083- 

 0092 mm. diam., delicately warted. Rtjki. Mon., 264. 



On decayed wood. (Figs. 205, 207, 210, 238.) 



Clathrus pedatus, Schm. Ic., t. 33, f. 1, 17 (1776). 

 Sphcerocarpus pyriformis, Bull., t. 417, f. 2 (1791). 

 Stemonitis pyriformis, Gmel. Sys., 1469 (1791). 

 Trichia pyriformis, Sibtb. Fl. Ox., 406 (1794) ; Sow., 400, f. 6. 

 Trichia clavata, Pers. Disp., p. 11 (1797) ; Eng. FL, v., 320; 

 Cooke Hdbk., 1183. 



Trichia citrina, Schum. Saell., 1460 (1803), 



Arcyria trichioides, Rudolph, Linnsea, p. 120 (1829). 



Trichia erythropus, Borszczow (1856). 



Trichia obtusa, Wignnd, p. 30, t. 11, f. 4 (1863). 



Trichia Thwaitesii, B. & Br., Ceylon Fungi, No. 776 (1873). 



82. Hexniazcyria serpula. Scop. 



Plasrnodiocarp vein-like, creeping, usually combined into a loose 

 net, mass of spores yellow; tubes of net -00415 mm. wide, very 

 often furcate, terminating in numerous free ends which are not 

 conspicuously narrowed, more or less one-and-a-half times the 

 diameter of the capillitium in length ; spirals three to four, thin, 

 but little prominent, separated by depressions three to four times 

 as broad as the spirals, covered with numerous long spines of vari- 

 able length. Rtfki. Mon., 266. 



On rotten branches, leaves, &c. (Figs. 200, 227, 228.) 



Mucor serpula, Scop. Fl. Cam., t. 65 (1772). 



Ly coper don lumbricale, Batsch., f. 174 (1786). 



Trichia spongioides, Vill. Fl. Danpli., 1061 (1789). 



Stcmonitis lumbricaUs, Gmel. Sys., 1470 (1791). 



Trichia reticulata, Pers. Disp., 10(1797) ; Ic. & Desc., t. 12, f. 1. 



