580 DEMATIEI. 



Gen 216. TRIPOSPORIUIYI, Corda. 



Flocci erect, jointed, bearing at 

 their apices tri~radiate, articulated 

 siDores. — Berk. Outl.p. 345. 



{Fig. 251.) 



1739. Tripospoxium elegans. 



Corda. "Elegant Triposporium." 



Mycelium slender, effused, brown ; 

 flocci slender, r-imple, or branched, 

 brown, intricate, remotely septate ; 

 spores stellate, brown in the centre, 

 rays paler, apices and pedicel 

 Fig. 251. colourless. — Corda. i.f. 220. Bon. 



t.S,f. 75. Corda. Mucedinees t. x. 

 Pa?/, f. 329. Quekett Journ. n.lS70,t.S. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H.no. 

 509 ^- 1053*. 



On decorticated oak. Feb. Somerset. [Low. Carolina.] 



The spores vary considerably in length and in the number of articulations. 

 Sometimes this mould occurs with globose spores at the tips of the three 

 terminal processes. — M.J.B. 



{Fig. 251, flocci and sjpores magnified.) 



Gen. 217. HELICOMA, Corda. 



Flocci erect, dark, jointed, bearing on 

 their sides pale, flat, spiral spores. — 

 Berk. Outl.p. Uo. {Fig. 2b2.) 



1740. Helicoma Mullezi. Corda. 

 " Muller's Helicoma." 



Tufts broadly effused, tomentose, 



olive-black ; flocci fasciculate, connate, 



simple, straight, rigid, apex somewhat 



thickened, brown, pellucid, septate ; 



Fig, 252. spores spirally convolute, 5-septate, 



colourless, hyaline. — Corda.i. t. f. 219. 

 Corda. Anl. t. B.f. 11, no. 4. Fckl. exs. no. 105. B. ^ Br. Ann. 

 N.H. no. 510. 



