398 



MYXOGASTEES. 



ing, brown-black.— i^r. S.M. m.p. 162. Sow. t. 412,/. 3. A. ^ S. 

 t. ii./. 8. B. ^' Br, Ann. N.H. no. 386. 



On mossy stumps. Northamptonshire. 



[Carolina, Ohio, U. S.] 

 " Our specimens have a beautiful coppery tinge."— -B. <£,• Br. 



1162. 



Stemonitis violacea. P. "Violet Stemonitis." 



Peridium lenticular, steel-blue, fugacious, umbilicate beneath; 

 capillitium whitish, lax, spores blackish, stem short semi -pene- 

 trating.— i^r. S.M. \n.p. 162. B ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 387. 



On moss. Common. 



1163. Stemonitis arcyrioides. Somm. "Violet Stemonitis." 



Peridium globose, violaceous steel-blue, base somewhat per- 

 sistent, capillitium globose ; spores brownish ; stem short, semi- 

 penetrating. — Fr. S.M. iii.p. 162. Ann. N.H. no. 114. FcU. exs. 

 no. 1447. 



On dead laurel leaves, &c. 



Gen. 87. 



ENZ:RTHEN£]yiA, Bowm. 



1164. 



Peridium very delicate, simple, evan- 

 escent, except at the apex, where it is ad- 

 nate with the dilated top of the penetrat- 

 ing dark stem. Capillitium dependent, 

 attached to the dilated disc. Spores sur- 

 rounded by a cyst. — Bowm. Linn. Trans. 

 nVi.p. 151. B. ^' Br. Ann. N.H. no. 388. 



{Fig. 133.) 



Fig. 133. 



Enerthenexna elegans. Bowm. " Bowman'B Ener- 



thenema." 



Peridium globose, very fugacious, at length cinereous, apex 

 papillary from the excurrent stem. Capillitium and spores 

 black-brown. — Boicm. Linn. T^^ans. xvi. j9. 151, f. 16. B.^-Br. 

 Ann. N.H. no. 388, t.UJ. 7. Berk. Outl. 1. 1,/. 6. C. Stemonitis 

 papillata, Eng. Fl. \.p. 317. not Persoon. 



On rotton wood. [Low. Carolina.] 



(Fig. 133, thread arid sjiores magnified.) 



