618 



MUCEDINES. 



1855. Papulaspora sepedonioides. Preiiss. " Red-beaded 



Papulaspora." 



Hypliasma effused, creeping, branched, septate, pellucid, 

 woolly, interwoven ; ramuli pedicelliform, ascending, septate, 

 terminating in a globose red cellular body, studded with oblong 

 spores. — Sturm, vi. t. 45. Ann. N.H. no. 761*. 



On rice paste. Aug. King's Cliffe. 



This beautiful mould consists of decumbent, articulate, colourless tbreads, 

 wliicli produce short, erect branches, each surmounted by a large red cel- 

 lular body about *()018 in. in diameter. The heads studded with oblong erect 

 spores '0004-'0006 in. long, with their endochrome bipartite. If these are 

 triily spores, each individual head presents nearly the structure of an Ejncoc- 

 cum.-B.d:Br. (Fig. 289.; 



Gen. 255. 



RHOFALOMYCES, Corda. 



Flocci free, septate, swelling at the 

 tip into an areolate head, each cell of 

 which bears a spicule, surmounted by a 

 spore. — Berk, Outl.p. 854. 



1856. Rhopaloxnyces pallidus. 



B. 4' Br. " Pallid Ebopalomyees." 



Pale fawn colour ; fertile flocci fur- 

 cate, flexuous ; spores minute, elliptic. 

 B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 504, t. 5,/. 2. 



On decayed Russian matting. Feb. 

 King's Cliffe. 



Creeping widely over the matrix, on which it forms a mealy pale fawn- 

 coloured ragged stratum ; hyphasma delicate, consisting of veryfine threads, 

 which produce little branches, swelling out suddenly, and rising at once, or 

 creeping along and giving off fertile flocci. These are rather thick, irregular 

 in outline, once or twice forked ; heads globose, or nearly so, beaiitifully 

 ar.olate, each areola producing in its centre a short delicate spicule, sur- 

 mounted with a minute elliptic spore.— £.<£; -Br. 



Fig. 290. 



1857. 



Rhopaloxnyces candidus. B. ^ Br. 



Pibopalomyces.'" 



"White 



White ; hyphasma yery sparing ; fertile flocci straight, sim- 

 ple ; heads subglobose ; spores minute, elliptic. — Ann. N.H. no. 

 505, t. 5,/. 3. 



On a mixture of dung, earth and hops. Feb. King's Cliffe. 



Ex'remely minute and delicate, pure white ; hyphasma creeping, but very 

 spi.ring ; fertile flocci erect, even ; heads globose or somewhat obovate, 

 be.utifullv areolate ; spores minute, elliptic Differing from R. pallidus in 

 colour, and the simple straight flocci j the heads are Somewhat larger.- 

 B.d:Br. - (Fig. 2.^^.) 



