MrCEDI2sES. 



601 



1801. Polyactis cinerea. Berli. " Cinereous Polyactis." 



Fertile flocci, gregarious, subsimple, cinereous, soon strangu- 

 lated ; spores attached here and there, globose, whiter than the 

 flocci. — Botrytis cinerea. Berk. Eng. Fl. v. p. 342. Pers. Disp. 

 i.3,/. 9, 10. 



On stems of herbaceous plants. Common. [Mid. Carolina.] 



This mould is usually found springing from Sclerotium cZwrMm, which would 

 seem to be the condensed mycelium of this species. 



1802. Polyactis fascicularis. Corda. " Fasciculate Polyactis." 



Tufts minute, black-brown, shining, frosted above; flocci 

 erect, fastigiate, slightly flexuose, crowded, brown, semi-pellu- 

 cid above and branches colourless heads of spores sphcerical, 

 white, shining ; spores oblong. — Quekett Journ. 1870, t. 6. 

 Corda. Muced. t. 16. PenicUlhim fascicidatum. Ann. N.H. no. 

 129. Berk.exs. no. 210, 



On decayed vegetable substances. 



The spores are comparatively large, and the flocci connate at the base. 



Gen. 235. FENICILLIXTIVI, Link. 



Flocci divided above in a fasciculate 

 manner, septate, as well as the branch- 

 lets, which are terminated by neck- 

 laces of spores, collected into tassel- 

 like heads. — Berk. Outl. p. 860. 



(Fig. 270.) 



1803. Fenicillium crustaceuxu. 



Ir. " Crustaceous Mould." 



Sterile flocci white, forming a close 

 crust-like web, fertile somewhat 

 branched, intricate, bifido-penicillate 

 above ; sporidia verdigris-green. — 

 ^ V^ Berk. Eng. Fl. v. p. 314. P. glaucum. 



^\ Grev.t.h^J.l. 



Fig. 270. On all sorts of decaying bodies. 



Very common. 



var. p. coremium. Fertile flocci, woven into a dense white 

 stem. — Floccaria glauca. Grev. t. 301. Byssus scoparia. Fl. 

 Dan. t. 897, f.l. 



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