SPELa!]ROyEMEI. 



459 



var. herbarum. Cooke. Larger than the typical form, but 

 hardly differing in fruit. — Cooke exs. no. 279. 



On stems of nettle, &c. 



An allied species of this genus occurs in South Carolina, U.S. {Fig 171.) 



Gen. 130. 



MYXORMIA, B. & Br. 



Perithecium composed of 



flocci with free apices, open 



above ; spores concatenate, 



involyed in gelatine. — Berk. 



OiitLp. 321. B. 4- Br. Ann. 



N.II.no.U7. {Fig. 172.) 



Allied to Excipula, but sepa- 

 „. ^^ rated from it by habit, by the 



-ti?' 1/-^' absence of flocci, and above all 



by its concatenate spores. The spores collectively are very gelatinous. 



1366. IVIyxormia atro-viridis. B. d; Br. "Black Green 



Myxormia." 



Perithecia excipuliform, scattered, minute, quite smooth, 

 formed of long, closely-packed narrow cells ; sporophores fili- 

 form ; spores linear-oblong, concatenated. — B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. 

 n.U7,t.l2,f. 9. 



On dead leaves of grass. Dec. Batheaston. 



Spores connected by a very delicate thread, which frequently breaks off 

 with them, containing one or more globose nuclei, generally one at either 

 end, involved in gelatine, forming a black green mass, resembling strongly 

 the fructifying stratum in the genus Phallus. {Fig. 172.) 



Gen. 131. 



FROSTHElVIIUiyi, Kunze. 



Perithecia carbonaceous ; spores 

 fasciculate, fusiform, sejDtate, at- 

 tached to articulated threads. — 

 Berk.Outl.p. 321. Eng. Fl. v. p. 

 297. {Fig.173.) 



Fig. 173. 



