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DEMATIEI. 



calicioides.Fr. SM.m.p.2>A:2. Eng. Fl.Y.p.^Z^. Vei.Ac.lSl^, 

 t. b,f. 6. 



On dead herbaceous stems. 

 Head small, soon falling off. 



Gen. 204. 



(EDOCEFHALUM, Preuss. 



Hyphasma creeping, septate, stem erect, sep- 

 tate, simple, ending in a vesicular head which 

 bears the spores ; spores simple, subradiating. — 



Preuss in Sturm. Yi.p. 121. 



{Fig. 



239.) 



1695. 



(Edocephaluxn lasticolosr. B. di Br. 



" Bright-coloured CEdoceplialum." 



Very minute, brick red, stem equal, pallid; 

 head subglobose; spores globose, granulated, 

 aj)pendiculate. — Ann. N.H. no. 1056, t. 14,/. 12. 

 Fig. 239. 

 On sheep's dung. Oct. Batheaston. 



Not lialf a line liigt, sending out at the base a few tlu'eads into the 

 matrix ; before the head is formed nearly cylindrical, with some large oil 

 globules, which at length, in great manner, vanish ; spores 'OOOG-'OOOS in. 

 diameter, with a little appendage at the base Kke those of Eirlcoccum. — B. & 

 Br. {Fig. 239.) 



Gen. 205. SFOROCYBE, Fries. 



Flocci septate, free ; heads globose, 

 studded mth spores. — Berh. Outl. p. 

 343. {Fig. 240.) 



1696. Sporocybe byssoides. Fr. 



" Velvety Sporocybe." 



Black ; head globose, compact ; spores 

 globose; stem subulate, pellucid at the 

 apex. — Fr. SM. iii. p. 343. Eng. Fl. v. 

 p. 333. Nees. N.A. Cur. ix. t. 5, /. 9. 

 Bon. t. 10, /. 217. Babh. F.E. no. 64. 

 Coolce exs. no. 278. 

 On dead herbaceous stems. Winter. [United States.] 



Forming a thin, black, velvety stratum, easily recognised under a lens 

 by the globose heads with which the hairs of the pile are terminated. 

 Scarcely h a line high ; stem stiff, brown, obscurely annulated ; spores 

 large, globose, pellucid, brovm, minutely echinulate. The apex of the 

 stem is generally a little incrassated, forming a receptacle for the sporidia. 

 —M.J.B. 



Fig. 240. 



