402 



M.TXOGASTEES. 



aii.^9. 181. Sturm, t.^. Berh. Ann. N.H.no.llh. Wig. Ann Sc 

 JSfat. (1862) xvi. 1. 16, f. 16. Bisch.f. 3692. 



On decayed wood. Collyweston, Norths. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Gen. 91. 



OFHIOTHECA, Curr. 



Peridium simple, bursting longi- 

 tudinally. Capillitium twofold, one 

 consisting of delicate hyaline threads, 

 to which the spores are attached; 

 the other of echinulate, thicker, 

 branched filaments. — Curr. Quart. 

 Journ. Micr. \\.p. 240. Berh. Outl. p. 

 310. {Fig. 137.) 



1176. Ophiotheca chrysosperma. 



Curr. " Currey's Ophiotheca." 



Peridium irregular, more or less 

 serpentine, brownish. Fertile threads 

 delicate transparent, barren threads 

 Fig. 137. somewhat reticulated, minutely den- 



ticulate, here and there swollen ; spores yellow, elliptic, pointed 

 at each end.— Cwrr. Micr. Journ. (1854), ii. p. 240, t. ix./. 1-5, 



vol. Y.p. 131. 



On inner bark of a dead tree. [Fig. 137.) 



Gen. 92. 



Fig. 138. 

 /.2. CV^a-. /. 9,/. 24. 



TRICHIA, Hall. 



Peridium simple, persistent, mem- 

 branaceous, bursting irregularly above. 

 Threads spiral. — Berk. Outl. p. 310. 

 Eng. Fl. y.;9.319. {Fig. 138.; 



1177. Tricha arubiformis. P. 



«' Eeddish Trichia." 



Fasciculate, peridia turbinato- 

 cylindrical, steel-blue ; stems short, 

 confluent, red-brown, capilHtium and 

 spores purplish-red. — Fr. S.M. iii. p. 

 183. Hall.t.4:S,f.b. Batsch. f. 172. 

 Bull. t. 502,/. 1 ? Pers. Disp. t. 4,/. 3, 

 1. 1./. 3. NeesJ. 112. Fl.Dan. t.lSGb, 

 Fckl. exs. no. 1438. Wig. Ann. Sc. Nat. 



