MTJCEDIXES. 



589 



On damp paper, lint, carpet, &c. 



[Mid. Carolina.] 



"Flocci not septate; sporidia globose, minute, arranged in moniliform 

 rows."— J/./. ^. 



1761. 



Aspergillus mollis. Bej'k. "White-branched 

 Aspergillus." 



Fertile flocci white, erect, dicliotoinously branched ; apices 

 clavate ; sporidia large, subglobose. — Berh. Eng. Fl. v. p. 340. 

 On dead leaves. Winter. 



*' Forming minute, scattered, pure white fascicles, with a thin procumbent 

 mycehum." — M. J, B. 



1762. 



Aspergillus vixens. Lh. " Green-branched 

 Aspergillus," 



Tufts rather dense ; flocci entangled, sub-erect, heads as well 

 as the branched flocci greenish. — Berk. Eng. Fl. v. p. 340. Fr. 

 /S'.il/. iii-i?. 388. Grev.Fl.ed.p.Aei. 



On decaying Agarics. 



Gen. 227. 



NEMATOGONUM, Desm. 



Threads clavate at the apices, and 

 bearing necklaces of spores on distinct 

 scattered spicules. — BerJc. Out!, p. 

 348. {Fig. 262.) 



1763. Nematogonuxn auxantiacuxn. 



Desm. '' Orange Nematogonum." 



Mycelium delicate, effused ; flocci 

 ferruginous-orange ; spores of the 

 same colour, oval. — Desm. Ann. Sc. 

 iV^a^.(1834), ii. t. 2, /. 1. Berk. Outl. 

 p. 348. Aspergillus aurantiacus. Ann. 

 N.H. no. 237, t. 13, f. 22. Berk, exs.no. 

 272. {Fig. 262.) 



[Low. Carolina.] 



Fig. 262. 



On elm bark. Apethorpe. 



When in perfection the threads are simple, and the spores attached in moni- 

 liform rows to a larger one at their base. It has, however, a great tendency 

 to become proliferous, especially when it has been beaten down by the 

 weather.— J/. /. B. 



