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compressis labialim dehiscentia. Membrana perid dplex : inferior 

 tenerrima albido hvalina, atspoiidiis translucentibus cinrea ; ex- 

 terior concolor, in squamulas furfuraceas fatiscens. Columella cen- 

 tralis atba, basi peridio contigua, sed non continua, pro bujus 

 forma, com pa nata aut cilindrica. Flocci reticula, albi, peridio et 

 columellc adnati. Sporidia nigra, globosa , nucleun crassuin vio- 

 laceo-nigrescentem includentia, latvia, centesimam millimetri par- 

 tem dimetro assequentia, pcdicello brevissimo hyalino primum 

 floccis annexa, tndem libera eisdem conidiisque inuumeris im- 

 mixta. 



^THALIM, Link. 



Peridium indeterminatum , membranose cellulare , fra- 

 ge, fatiscens, extus strato floccoso evanescente cortica- 

 tum, fitas celhdosum e floccis in strata membrancea 

 coalitis. Sporidia compacta, in cellulis demum evanes- 

 centibus coacervata. 



Sessilia, irregular ia, cortice stratisque interius colo- 

 ra tis , sporidiis Julig inosis . 



Syn. Fuligo, Hall., Stirp. Helv., n 2133. Pers., Syn, 



Fung., p. 159. 

 Reticularia? species , Bull., Champ., p. 87. 

 Ethalium, Link, Dissert., 1. N. al> E. Syst. d. Pilz., 



p. 99. Fries, Sjst. Myc, III, p. 92. 



jETHalium septicum, Fries. 



Characteres idem ac generis. 



Syn. Mucor spticas , Lin., Sp. Pl., p. 1 656. Bolt., t. 1 34 . 

 Reticularia ltea, Bull., Champ., p. 87, t. 380, f. 1. 

 Fuligo flava, Pers., /. c, Fl. Dan., t. 1363, f. 1. 

 Mthdlium flavum , Grev., Scot. Crjpt. FL, t. 272, 

 jEihalium septicum , Fries, 1. c, p. 93. 



