STILBACEI. 



561 



1681. Zllosporiuxn caxneuxn. Ir. "Flesh-coloured Illos- 



porium." 



Gregarious, globular, free, soft, sub-pulverulent, flesby-red. 

 — Fr. S.M. iii. />. 259. Berk. Ann. N.H. no. 4:97. Berk. exs. no. 

 293. Uahh.F.E.no.lZ. 



On Peltidea canina. Apetliorpe. 



1682. 



Illosporium corallinum. Roherge. 

 Illosporium." 



Coralline 



Gregarious, minute, rosy, globose, then cylindrical, somewhat 

 branched, coralline ; spores conglutinate, polymorphous, sub- 

 hyaline. — Desm.Ann. Sc.Nat. (1848), x. p. 342. B. ^ Br. Ann. 

 N.H. no. 4:dS. Desm.exs. wo. 1551. I.coccineum, Corda. 



On Borrera tenella. Autunm and Winter. 



1683. Illosporium coccineum. Fr. "Carmine Illosporium." 



Crowded, minute, sphcerical, persistent, carmine red. — Fr. 

 S.M. in. p. 259. B. ^ Br. Ann. X.H. no. 499. Fckl. exs. no. 240. 

 On Pertusaria comrminis. [Low. Carolina.] 



Gen. 200. 



1684. 



.SGERITA, P. 



Receptacle obscure ; spores ir- 

 regular, disposed in short moni- 

 liform threads at the apices of 

 flexuous, branched, radiating, 

 compacted peduncles. — Berk. 

 Outl.p.?A2. (Fi^. 235.; 



Fig. 235. 



JEs;exita Candida. P. " White ^Egerita." 



Smooth, soon mealy, white ; spores ovate-oblong. — Fr. S.M. 

 iii.;?. 220. Eng.Fl.x. p.o'M. Fckl. exs. no. IQ^. Grev.t.2^9>, f, 

 1. Bisch.f.S6S3. Hoff.F.G.u. t.'dJ.l.B.^-Br.Ann.N.H.no. 

 823, t. 9,/. 7. 



On damp decaying wood. [Low. & Mid. Carolina.] 



Crowded, granule-Hke, globose, or hemispherical, of the size of a poppy 

 seed, ^vhite, at first even, smooth, then minutely squamulose or mealy from 

 the breaking up of the spores- "There is certainly no peridium, and the 

 genus is typical of a compact Oidium.'' Spores ('OOOG-'OuOo in.) '015 — '0125 

 m.m. long. {Fig. 235.) 



