590 



MUCEDINES. 



1764. Nematogonum aureum. Berk. "Golden Nemato- 



gonum." 



Fertile flocci erect, short, simple, clavate ; sporiclia large, 

 thinly scattered, elliptic, golden yellow. — Aspei^gillus aureus. 

 Berk. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 340. 



On bark. 



" Flocci short, consisting of about four articulations, clavate above, and 

 covered thinly with large, subelliptic, yellow sporidia." — M.J.B. 



Gen. 228. RHINOTRICHUIVI, Corda. 



Threads erect, articulate, clavate 

 above, and bearing spores attached 

 to spicules. — Berk, Outl. p. 348. 



(i^z^.263.) 



1765. Rhinotxichum Bloxaxni. 



B. & Br. " Bloxam's Rhinotrichum." 



Scattered, white ; fertile flocci 

 clavate above ; spores white, sub- 

 elliptic. — Ann. N.H. no. 541, t. 7, 

 /.19. 



On dead wood. Twycross. [S. Carolina.] 



Patches irregularly effused, seldom continuous, white or cream-coloured ; 

 mycelium decumbent, white, septate ; fertile flocci erect, sometimes very 

 sparingly divided ; tips clavate, bearing scattered spicules, surmounted by 

 subelliptic or slightly obovate spores, which are sometimes obtuse, some- 

 times apiculate ; sometimes the ultimate articulations are moniliform, very 

 rarely the penultimate joint has one or two spicules.^5, (bBr. 



Fig. 263. 



1766. Rhinotrichum Thwaitesii. 



Rhinotrichum." 



B. cC' Br. " Thwaites' 



Epigeeous, yellow, effused ; hyphasma woven ; fertile flocci 

 ascending, dichotomous, apices slightly thickened. — B. ^ Br. 

 Ann. N.H. no. 542, t. 6,f. 12. 



On the bare soil. Aug. Bristol. 



Patches suborbicular or confluent, thelephoroid, yellow, with a pale mar- 

 gin ; hyphasma consisting of closely packed, decumbent, articulate threads, 

 the ends of which rise up and are branched dichotomously, their apices 

 swelling slightly, and clothed with globose, echinulate, shortly pedicellate 

 spores. — B. d; Br. 



1767. Rhinotrichum opuntia. B.^^Br. "Cactus 



Ehinotrichum." 



Flocci furcate, here and there swollen, ultimate ramuli clavate, 

 with transverse rows of spores. — Ann. N.H. wo. 761, ^. 16,/. 13. 



