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DEMATIEI. 



brown, yellow when young, polymorphous, angular. — Fchl. exs. 

 no. 126. Corda. iii. t.l,f. 18. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 236-519. 

 Torula Eriophori. Eng.Fl. y.j). 359. 



On various Carices. Wilts. Somerset. {Fig. 258.) 



Gen. 224. 



CAMFTOUM, Link. 



Flocci erect, septate, thickened at the apex 

 and black ; spores curved, dark, fixed in 

 clusters at the apices. — Bei^k. Outl.p. 347. 



{Fig. 259.) 



1755. 



Lk. 



Fig. 259. 



Caxnptoum curvatuxn. 



"Curved Camptoum." 



Tufts minute, very black; flocci dwarf, 

 erect, with black and white bands ; spores 

 large, brown, polymorphous, curved. — Linh. 

 Sp.i. 2->. 44. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 518. 

 Berk.exs.no. ^10. Kl. exs. no. 4:61.. Corda. 

 Anl. t. B.f. 12, no. 6. FcJd. exs. no. 127. 



On Scirpus sylvaticus. Spye Park, Wilts. {Fig. 259.) 



Gen. 225. SFORODUM, Corda. 



Flocci erect, septate ; threads of 

 inarticulate spores moniliform, seated 

 towards their base. — Berk. Outl. p. 

 347. {Fig. 260.) 



1756. Sporodum conopleoides. 



Corda. " Grass Sporodum." 



Tufts minute, hemisj^herical, black ; 

 flocci quite simple, septate, rather 

 ^" ' obtuse, dark-brown ; spores at first 



yellow, then brown, globose nucleus darker. — Corda. i. t. 247, iii. 

 t. i.f. 22. Corda. Anl t. B. f. 14, no. 1.2. Kl. exs. no, 774. B. ^ 

 Br. Ann. N>H. no. 543. Dematium hispidulum. Ann. N.H. Yii.no. 

 234. Fr. S.M. m.p. 366. Lih. exs. no. 284. Fckl. exs. no. 104. 



On dead grasses. Common. 



From tlae middle of tlie flocci spring one or two obovate joints, which sup- 

 port two or three rows of sporidlaj of which those at the apices are the 

 largest.— J/. /. B. {Fig. 260.) 



