MTJCEDIXES. 



61B 



1842. 



Myxotrichum deflexuzn. Berh. " Deflexed Myxo- 

 trichum." 



Forming little patches, consisting of grey downy balls ; flocci 

 radiating, branched ; branches opposite, deflexed, attenuated up- 

 wards ; branchlets few, short, acute ; spores basal, in patches, 

 oblong-elliptic. — Ann. N.H. no. 122, t. 8,/. 9. 



On damp paper and wood. 



Forming little patches, consisting of little grey downy balls j from these 

 arise a number of radiating threads, furnished with a few opposite deflexed 

 branches, which decrease in size from the base upwards, so as to give the 

 appearance of a little grove of larches. The branches have occasionally a 

 few short acute branchlets, which are often alternate; spores collected in 

 patches about the base of the threads, oblong-elliptic. Distinguished from 

 M. chadarum by the absence of the curved apices of the flocci, by the rec- 

 tangular and deflexed branches, and by the main threads being generally 

 simple, or if branched not trifid or subcymose. 



Gen. 247. 



GONYTRZCHUM, Nees. 



Flocci branched, here and there 

 A\ 'I V~:>^^^''"^'\' W/ bearing knots, from which spring 



fl ^'T^x^' v^i^n ^^ verticillate, fertile, septate 



threads, crowned at their tips with 

 a globose mass of spores. — Berk, 

 Outl.p.36S. (Fig. 282.) 



Fig. 282. 



1843. Gonytiichum caesium. JVees. " Grey Gonytriclium." 



Flocci tufted, intricate, bluish-grey, nodose at the joints, 

 from which spring the branches and branchlets ; spores conglo- 

 bated, globose, pellucid. — Nees. Nov. A.N.C. ix. p. 244, /. 14. 

 Corda.ii.f. 61. Myxotrichum caesium. Fr. S.M. iii. p. ^■id>. Eng. 

 Fl.Y.p.S36. 



On fallen branches. Apethorpe, &c. 



Forming dense greyish tufts, at length black, consisting of very much 

 branched fibres ; branches patent, nodose at their origin, and there fur- 

 nished with numerous globose spores. — M. J. B. 



1844. Gonytiichum fuscum. Carda. " Brown Gonytrichum." 



Tufts pulvinate, brown ; flocci fragile, blackish-brown, 

 opaque ; branches subulate ; spores scattered, white, globose. — 

 Corda. i. /. 160. CooJce exs. no, 348. B. ^ Br. Ann, N.H. no. 

 1054. 



On rotten sticks. Aug. (Fig. 282.; 



