DEMATIEI. 



565 



On dead nettle stems. March. 



Blui3(i-gray, forming little patches ; flocci sparingly branched almost from 

 the base, as far as we have seen inarticulate; spo.res cylindrical, apiculate 

 at either end, elongated, arranged in dichotomous chains, at length divided 

 by a central septum. This is not like the other species, dark and opaque. 

 The line of demarcation between the chains of spores and threads is strongly 

 marked. — B. d: Br. 



" Elegant Den- 



1692. Deudryphium fuxnosum. BerTi. 



diyphium,"' 



Tufts black, or dingy, more or less effused ; flocci erect, short, 

 paler above ; spores large, clavate or elongated, endochrome 

 transversely multiseptate, brown. — Cooke QueJcettJourn. ii.(1870), 

 t. 5. Dactylium famosum, Corda Mucedinees, t. xxii. Helminth, 

 fumosum^ Curr. Micr. Jour. v. p. 116, t. 8,f.,6. 



On dead Umbellifers. 



The flocci are stiff and erect, and when ripe of a very dark brown, or al- 

 most black colour, being so opaque that it is a matter of difficulty to make 

 out that they are septate. At the apices of the flocci there originate several 

 rows of almost colourless cells, arranged in a moniliform manner, and spread- 

 ing in difi"<-'rent directions. The spores are attached in rows at the ex- 

 tremities of the chains of colourless cells, and are of a rich brown, usually 

 somewhat narrowed at each end, and divided by several transverse lines, 

 which have the appearance of septa. — Curr. 



Gen. 203. 



FERICONIA, Corda. 



com- 



Fig. 238. 

 On rotten linen. 



•Stem composed of fasciculate, 

 pacted threads ; head globose ; spores 

 fixed to the free apices of the threads. 

 Berk. Outl. p. 343. {Fig. 238.) 



1693. Fericonia glaucocephala. Corda 

 " Glaucous-headed Fericonia." 



Tufts delicate, farinose, glaucescent ; 

 stem short, slender, smooth, black- 

 brown, opaque, pulvinate above ; head 

 spherical, laige, glaucous; spores ovate, 

 nucleate. — Ann. N.H. no. 495. Corda. 

 Ic. iii./. 37. 



Kind's Cliffe. 



The threads of which the stem is composed are swollen at the apex into a 

 pulvinate capitulum, about which the spores form a spherical head. 



(Fig. 238.; 



1694. Fericonia calicioides. BerTi. " Small-headed Periconia." 



Black, mycelium effused, spot-like ; head globose, com- 

 pact; stem slender, subulate. — Berk. Outl. p. 343. Sporocyhe 



