de:matiei. 



567 



1697. Sporocybe nigxella. BerTi. *' Black Sporocybe." 



Very minute, black ; stem simple, very slender, articulated ; 

 spores globose, smooth. — BerJ:. Ann. N.H. no. 22Q^ 1. 13,/. 16. 



On dead leaves of grass. King's Cliffe, &c. 



Extremely minute, not one-fourth of a line higli, dark black; stem slender 

 with 4-5 articulations ; heads globose ; spores globose, smooth, with a glo- 

 bose nucleus. The whole plant is dark, so that it requires a good light to 

 gee the articulations of the stem, which are, however, very evident.— 

 M. J. B. (Fig. 240.; 



1698. Sporocybe altemata. Berk. " Alternate Sporocybe." 



Grey -black, forming little orbicular patches; extremely mi- 

 nute ; mycelium thin, decumbent ; fertile flocci articulate, erect, 

 or subdecumbent, branched alternately in a zigzag manner ; each 

 branch terminated by a slightly swollen receptacle, which is 

 studded with oblong subtruncate spores. — Ann. N.H. no. '221 . 

 Aspergillus alternatus. Berh. Ann. N.H. no. 126, f. 8,/. 11. 



On damp paper. [Mid. Carolina.] 



The mode of branching is, as it were, annotinous, the same as that of 

 Ascoti'icha chartarum. 



Gen. 206. 





STACHYBOTRYS, Corda. 



Flocci septate, free ; branches bearing 

 short, verticillate ramuli at their apices, 

 forming a little head, and each terminated 

 by a spore. — Berh. Outl.p. 343. {Fig. 241.) 



1699. Stachybotrys atra. Corda. 

 '• Black Stachybotrys." 



Tufts delicate, black ; stem dichotomous, 

 sparsely septate, olive-yellow, branches 

 colourless at the apex; spores brown, 

 ovate, or elliptic, with a thick, transverse 

 septum. — B. ^' Br. Ann. N.H. no. 817. 

 Corda. If. 278. Pa?/, f. 333. 



On damp millboard. 



The spores are not in any stage echinulate, nor are they so broad as in 

 S.Iobulafa. (Fi'j.-2A1.) 



1700. Stachybotrys lobulata. ^^-rA-. '■' Lobed Stachybotrys." 



Black, threads branching proliferously ; ramuli sabalternate, 

 attenuated; apices 4-5 lobed; spores elliptic, echinulate, or 



Fig. 241 . 



