MTXOGASTRES. 403 



(1862), XYi. 1. 15,/. 12. Curr. Micr. Journ. iii. t. 2,/. 5, 6. Tnc^/a 

 Neesiana. Corda.f. 2^^. Ann. N.H. no. 218. Bisch.f. 3664. 



On dead wood. Apethorpe. [United States.] 



Most usually fasciculate, individuals sometimes solitary. Stems often 

 very short, rubiginous, when confluent unequally sulcate, attenuated up- 

 wards. Peri dia of a beautiful steel-blue, reddish, bay, &c., shining, nearly 

 cylindrical, apex obovate, very obtuse, somewhat circumscissile, even, rugu- 

 lose below. Capillitium elongated, echinulate, bright purplish-red. as well 

 as the spores. 



1178. TxicWa pyxifoxxnis. Hoffm. " Pear-shaped 



Tricbia." 



Subfasciculate, peridia tnrbinato-pyriform, blackish-red, stems 

 subelongated, tawny, capillitium saffron-tawny, as well as the 

 spores. — Ft. S. M. in. p. 184. Hoffm. Cr. f. 1,/. 1. Eng. Fl. v. p. 

 319. Pers. Ic.FicL 1. 12,/ 1, 2. Curr. Micr. Journ. iii. t. 2,/. 9, 

 10. SphcBrocarpus fragilis. Sow. t. 279. Purt. t.24:,f. 3. Wig. 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. {1S62), xvi. t.UJ. 12, 13. Kl.exs.7io.l026,16'32. 

 Fckl.exs.no. 1437. 



On rotten stumps. [United States.] 



Stems racemoso-connate, often elongated, sometimes short, occasionally 

 scattered and simple, with a membranaceous hypothallus. Peridia usually 

 even, blackish-red, then bay-colour, sometimes with a ruddy tinge, opaque, 

 oblong by mutual pressure, but in solitary individuals rounded. Threads 

 very long, slender, echinulate. 



1179. Trichia Ayresii. B.&Br. " Ayres' Trichia." 



Crowded ; peridia obovate, tawny-chestnnt, shining ; stems 

 very short, connate ; capillitium strongly echinulate, tawny 

 saffron-yellow, as well as the spores. — B. <^- Br. Ann. N.H. no. 

 390. 



On decayed wood. Oxfordshire. 



Forming crowded masses. Peridia obovate, shining, of a bright tawny 

 chestnut. Elaters of the capillitium thicker than in T. pyrijormis, and 

 strongly echinulate, tawny ; spores globose, tawny. 



1180. Trichia Zioxinsexiana. Ca. " Pdbbed Trichia." 



Subsolitary, stem long, dirty brown colour, flexuous, longitu- 

 dinally ribbed with acute angular ridges, peridium turbinate or 

 ovate, even above, smooth, pallid, irregularly ruptured in an 

 operculate manner. Threads yellow, short, smooth ; spores 

 tetrahedral, yellow, diaphanous. — Corda. Icon. i.f.28Sd. Currey. 

 Quart. Jour. Micr. v. p. 129. 



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