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1097. Reticularia maxima. Fi\ '■' Large Eeticularia." 



Hvpotliallus effused, peridium very thin, tiiberciilose, Tvliite, 

 then blackish-purple, flocci fasciculate, adnate to the base, spores 

 black-purple. — Fr. S.M. \\\.'p. 85. Eng. Fl. \.p. 308. Corda. Ic. 

 Yi./. 35. FcJd. exs. no. 1473. 



On trunks of felled trees. [United States.] 



1098. Reticulaxia applanata. B.S^Br. " Flattened Reticularia." 



Effused, delicate, olivaceous-brown, spores oliye, echinulate. — 

 B. ^ Br. Ann.N.H, (1866;, no. 1142, t. 2,/. 3. 



On fallen trunk, the surface of which had been charred. Nov. 

 Ascot. 



Resembling in habit Licea applo/aafri. Surface reticulated, as in R. maxima. 

 Spores 4-7 in. a fascicle, connate, echinulate, '0005 in. diameter. — B. d: Br. 



1099. Reticularia atra. Fr. " Black Reticularia." 



Sub-pulvinate, peridium very thin, subreticulate, flocci erect 

 from the base, dendroid, divaricate, black, as well as the mature 

 spores, — Fr. S.M. \\i.p. 86. Eng. Fl. v. p. 308. Kl. exs. no. 1748. 

 A. ^ S. t. 3,f. 3. Lycop.fuliginosum, Sow. t. 257. 



On wood and bark of felled pines. [Mid. Carolina.] 



1100. Reticularia umbrina. Fr. '' Umber Reticularia." 



Subpulvinate, peridium very thin, nearly even, silvery, then 

 umber, flocci adnate to the base, erect, branched, umber as well 

 as the spores. — Fr. S.M. in. p. 87. Fl. Dan. t. 1976,/. 2. Eng. 

 Fl. Y.p. 308. Mich. t. 95./. 1. Gled. t. 6. Bolt. 1. 133,/. 2. Bull. 

 t. 446./. 4, t. 476, /. 1-3. Sow. f. 272. Grev. t.l06. Sturm, t. 38. 

 Nees.f. 95. Berk. Outl. t. 20, f. 8. 



On stumps, &c. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Wlien growing on a horizontal surface sometimes- several inches broad ; 

 peridium before bursting of a beautiful silvery umber, passing beneath the 

 mass of spores, and in favourable circumstances entirely separable from 

 the matrix. From the base spring the compressed, branched, reticulated 

 flocci, which are umber, like the spores, but shine with a golden or bronze- 

 like lustre.— En;^. Fl. (Fig. 120.) 



Gen. 76. i^THALIUM, Link. 



Peridium indetermi- 

 nate, externally covered 

 by a floccose evanescent 

 bark, cellular within from 

 the confluent interwoven 

 flocci. — Berk. Outl. p. 

 306. Eng.Fl.Y.2).S09. 

 Hg. 121. ^ (Fig. 121. J 



