94 British Fungi, 



becoming cylindrical; spores elliptic-oblong, pale- 

 olive^ 2U-oO X 10-14 fjb. Zygospore globose^ brown, 

 ^ mm. diam. ; branches of zygospore arcuate, with 

 dichotomously divided spines. 



Phy corny ces nitens, Kunze, Mykol. Hefte. ii. p. 113 ; 

 Sacc. Syll. vii. 696. 



Mucor phycomyceSy Berk. Outl, p. 407 ; Cke. 

 Hdbk. n. 1882. 



On fat and grease of various kinds ; also on dung. 

 Local. 



Often forming extensive olive-brown dry patches, 

 with a remarkable glistening appearance ; sporangi- 

 ferous hyphae same colour and shiny appearance, 

 from 3 — 8 in. long, weak, and soon decumbent or 

 drooping. 



Spinellus, Tan Tiegh. 



Mycelium white, then olive-brown, branched, some 

 of the branches furnished with spiny outgrowths ; 

 sporaugiferous hyphae erect, simple, becoming olive- 

 brown. Sexual branches equal, approaching each 

 other at the base, then diverging, and again approach- 

 ing at the tips. 



Spinellus y Van Tiegh. Ann. Sci. Xat. 1875, p. 

 QQ', Sacc. Syll. vii. p. 205. 



Mucor, Cke. Hdbk. p. 630. 



Distinguished by the branches being furnished 

 with numerous spreading spine-like branchlets. 



Spinellus fusirjer, Van Tiegh. (figs. 74-77). 

 Mycelium branched, branches spiny, asejDtate ; 

 sporaugiferous hyphae erect, cylindrical, base swollen, 

 colourless, then brown; sporangia globose, hyaline. 



