134 An HISTORY of FUNGUSSES. 



CLXXII. MUCOR unSluofusfavus.. Sp.PL 1656. Scbcef.Fung. /• 194. 

 feptkus. Mich. Gen. t. 96, Jig. 2- F lor. Dan. 778. Relban,Flor. 



p. 475. No. 994. Hall. Hifi. 2133. Hudfon, Angl. 647. 



Lightfoot, Scot. 1073. 



FROTHY MOULD. 



TAB. CXXXIV. 



/ T r HlS Is found in patches, of various fhapes and various 

 "*■ fizes j fometimes as large as the palm of a man's hand, 

 the furface is irregular, the margin fwelled out, here and there, 

 into uneven and unequal lobes. I have feen fmaller fpecimens 

 which are white, and moft frequently of an oblong figure, as 

 is exprefTed on the upper blade of grafs in the plate. Thefe, 

 I fuppofe, are the plant in its firft ftage j when further grown, 

 it is of a yellow or golden colour. In both ftates it is of a 

 frothy fubftance, and looks not unlike Barm or Yeaft; touched 

 it dhTolves in a cream-like frothy fubftance. In the fpace of 

 . a day or two it dries, and changes to a black footy powder, 

 replete with globular feeds, adhering to black, downy, elaftic 

 filaments. 



Grows in woods, on grafs and other herbage near the 

 ground, and appears not like a plant, but like matter that had 

 been accidentally fpilt there. This fpecimen grew on withered 

 grafs, and the low dying branch of an hedge rofe, which 

 were entangled together, in Woodhoufe-Wood, near Halifax, 

 Auguft 3, 1782. 



