DEMATIEI. 



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1703. Monotospoxa sphaexocephala. B. ^^ Br. " Eound- 



headed Monotospora." 



Stratum effused, dense black ; flocci simple ; spores globose, 

 even. — B. ^. Br. Ann. N.H. no. 819, ^. 9,/. 5. 



On dead stumps. Dec. Batbeaston. 



Forming a dense black stratum ; flocci black, moderately thick, with two 

 or three septa; spores globose, terminal, even, '001 in. diameter ; sometimes 

 seated on a swollen base. This differs from J/, megalos^ora in that the spores 

 are globose, not obovate, and smaller. — B.<i;£r. 



Gen. 209. CEPHALGTRZCHUIVI, Link. 



Flocci free, septate, brancbed at 

 tbe apex, and forming tbere a little 

 globose tuft of bairs, on wbicb are 

 seated tbe spberical spores. — Berk. 

 Outl.p. 344. {Fig. 244.) 



1704. Cephalotzichum curtuza. 



Berk. " Short Cephalotrichum." 



Scattered ; beads subglobose, 

 bronze-brown ; stem sbort, 1-2 

 septate, brown ; terminal flocci 

 brancbed, sligbtly scabrous ; spores 

 globose. — Berk. Ann. N.H. no. 222, 

 1. 12 J. 13. 

 Fig. 244. On leaves of Carices. Colly weston. 



Extremely minute ; stem short, brown, even, with 1-2 septa, very slightly 

 thickened at the base; heads globose, or sometimes broadly ovate, bronzy 

 brown ; threads springing in a little tuft from the top of the stem, forked 

 or ternate, with one or two sbort acute branehlets, sHghtly scabrous ; spores 

 globose, with a small globose nucleus, smooth. — M.J.B. (Fig. 244 J 



Gen. 210. 



CEDEMIUM, Fr. 



Flocci free, dark, flexuous ; spores 

 seated on sporangiform bodies towards 

 tbe base. — Berk. Outl.p. 344. {Fig. 245.) 



Fig, 245. 



705. (Edemitun atrum. Fr. '' Black 

 QEdemium." 



Flocci erect, densely aggregated, simple 

 or sub ramose, black, opaque; sporangiform 

 bodies black, subglobose ; spores minute, 

 subglobose, scabrous, byaline. — Corda. 

 Sturm, vi. t. 9. B. 4' Br. Ann. N.H. no. 501. 

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