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STILBACEI. 



niCROCERA, Desm, 



Veil persistent, membranaceo-floc- 

 cose, then splitting above into lacinise ; 

 receptacle clavatc, fleshy, composed of 

 nearly simple sporiferoiis threads; 

 spores fusiform, arcuate. — Desm. Ann. 

 Sc.Nat.(l^i^).^.rp.^h'd. {Ftg. 228.) 



Fig. 228. 



1666. TCicrocera coccophila. Desm. " Coccus Microcera." 



Very minute, subcasspitose, conical, simple, rose-red, mem- 

 brane of the base very thin, whitish, vaginate, connate ; spores 

 hyaline, elongated, acute at either end. — Desm. Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 1848, x.p. 359. Exs. no. 1750. Babh. exs. 72o.'269. Cooke exs. no. 

 350. Tal. F. Carp, iii.p. 105. 



Parasitic on Cocci on bark of trees. 



Tulasne considers this to be the conidiophorous form of a species of Nectria. 



{Fig. 228.) 



Gen. 194. VOLUTELLA, Fr. 



Receptacle fringed, or studded with 

 long hyaline bristles ; spores diffluent, 

 gelatinous. — Fr. S.M. m.p. 466. Berk. 

 Outl.p. 340. {Fig. 229.) 



1667. Volutella ciliata. Fr. 



"Fringed Volutella." 



Substipitate, wdiitish, then rose 

 coloured, circumference ciliated with 

 erect bristles. — Fr. S.M. iii. p. 467. 

 Bisch.f. 3827. Psilonia rosea, Eng. Fl. 

 Y.p. 353. Berk. exs. no. 56. Ann. N.H. no. 495. 



On potatoes. Winter and spring. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Spores elliptic or oblong, larger and slightly curved ; bristles sharp-pointed, 

 septate. There is a sort of stroma, probably formed from abortive bristles. 

 -M.J.B. 



Fig. 229. 



