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1821. Dactylium pyriferum. Fr. "Pear-seeded Dactylium." 



Flocci aggregate, white, here and there branched ; sporidia 

 pyriform, septa evanescent. — BerJz. Eng. Fl. v. p. 345. 



On decaying stems of herbaceous plants. 



*' Forming little white confluent tufts ; flocci very slightly branched; spo- 

 ridia often lateral, shaped exactly like a grape seed, the upper swollen por- 

 tion filled with a granulate mass, the lower pellucid, and apparently solid." 

 M.J.B. 



1822. Dactylium tenellum. Fr. " Small Dactylium." 



Flocci aggregate, white, fertile flocci branched, somewhat ver- 

 ticillate ; spores quaternate, obovate, septate. — Fr. S.M. iii. -p. 



413. B. ^' Br. Ann. N.H. no. 536. 

 On moss. March. Dundee. 



A small and beautiful species, scarcely visible to the naked eye. 



1823. Dactylium macrosporum. Fr. " Large-spored 



Dactylium." 



Flocci aggregate, white and rose-coloured ; branchlets of the 

 fertile flocci very short, sub-verticillate, ending in obovate-cylin- 

 dric, subternate, now and then septate spores. — Fr. S.M. m..p. 



414. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 345. Sturm, t. 50. 



On the ground, amongst moss, &c. [Low. & Mid. Carolina.] 



1824. Dactylium. sphaerocephalum. Berk. " Kound-headed 



Dactylium." 



White ; hyphasma thin, decumbent ; fertile flocci erect, more 

 or less ternate above, heads subglobose, 10-12 spored ; spores 

 oblong, very shortly pedicellate, 3-septate. — Ann. N.H. no. 243. 

 <. 14,/. 27. 



On dead twigs of ivy. Lambley, Norths. 



Forming a thin white stratum, with the heads visible to the naked eye ; 

 hyphasma decumbent, branched, articulated ; fertile flocci erect, articulated, 

 naked below, above branched in a more or less temate manner; branchlets 

 slightly swollen at the base, attenuated above ; spores forming subglobose 

 heads, attached by very short peduncles, oblong-elliptic, triseptate. White 

 in every stage of growth, by which it is distinguished, and by the large heads 

 of distinctly septate spores.— J/./.^. {Fig. 274.) 



1825. Dactylium dendroides. Fr. " Tree-like Dactylium." 



Flocci aggregate, very much branched, white, branchlets race- 

 mose ; spores tenninal, ob ovate-cylindrical, septate. — Fr. S.M, 



