MTXOGASTEES. 



393 



On decayed oak branches. Feb. East Bergholt, Suffolk. 



Forming little crowded orbicalar patches, consisting of depressed sub-lenti- 

 forni peridia of a bright persistent yellow, perfectly sessile, at length burst- 

 ing above and dispersing their dark spores, so as to forma border resembling 

 the stains -produ.ced.hy the s'poridia. o? S^ihceria inquinaiis. Flocci yellow, broad. 

 Spores at first contained in a common vesicle, which barsts or is absorbed, 

 and exposes them in the form of little globose branches, often supported 

 by an articulated thread, strongly echinulate. externally smooth towards the 

 common axis. Mother cells ■025-'04m.m. ('001-*00175 in.) diameter j spores 

 (■0001--0005 in.) •01--0125 m.m. 



1147. Badhamia utriculazis. Berk. " Steel-blue Badhamia." 



Peridia oblong, inflated, very delicate, steel-blue, when empty 

 wliitish; stems sub-adnate, flaccid, yellowish; flocci white; spores 

 black. — Berk. Linn. Trans, xxi. p. 153. Phjsarum utriculare. Fr. 

 S.M. in.p. 139. Bull. t. 417,/. 1. Berk. Ann. N.H. no. 211. Fl. 

 Dan. t. 2093,/. 2. 



On wood. King's Cliffe. 



1148. Badhanxia inaurata. Carr. " Bright-yellow Badhamia." 



Gregarious ; peridia sessile, globose, or nearly so, bright yel- 

 low, -^ in. across, covered with floccose yellow scales, opening 

 by irregular fissures ; sporidia subglobose, very minutely punc- 

 tate, enclosed at first in hyaline sacs. — Curr. Linn. Trans, xxiy. 

 t. 2b. f. 8. B. ^' Br. Ann. N.H. no. 1031. 



On Jungermannia. Oct. Paul's Cray Common. 



Spores (•0004--0006 in.) •Ol-'Olo m.m. 



Gen. 84. 



CRATERIUM, Trent. 



Peridium simple, papyrace- 

 ous, rigid, persistent, closed at 

 first with a decided operculum. 

 Flocci congested, erect. — Berk. 

 Outl.p. 308. Eng. Fl. \.p. 316. 

 {Fig. 130.) 



Fig. 130. 



