SEPEDOXIEI. 



623 



EFOCHNZUIVI, Link. 



Sterile flocci creeping, fertile obsolete ; 

 spores septate, attached apparently to the 

 matrix. — Berh. Outl. p. 356. 



{Fig. 293.) 



Fig. 293. 



1871. 



Epochnium macrosporoideuni. 



Epochniuni." 



Berk. " Eadiatin'' 



Flocci very slender, effnsed, irregularly branched ; spores sub- 

 globose or oval, divided by radiating septa. — Berk. Ann. N.H. no. 

 131. t. 8,/. 14. 



On dead twigs of Rihes. Aug. King's Cliflfe. 



Forming' a thin slate-black stratum ; flocci transparent, perfectly colour- 

 less under the microscope, apparently not septate, very slender, effused, ir- 

 regularly branched, often anastomosing at right angles. From the tips or 

 on very short lateral branches spring subglobose or oval colourless tran- 

 sparent vesicles, with a central nucleus ; these by degrees are furnished 

 within with obscure septa, at length they acquire when full grown a brown 

 hue. and are from x^-ry^ in. in diameter. They are then in general 

 more or less globose, divided by septa into a few lobes, which are disposed 

 in a radiating manner, hke the berries of a mulberry. A few are furnished 

 with a little apicular peduncle, but the greater part lose all trace of the 

 point of attachment. — M. J. B. 



Gen. 259. 



PSILONIA, Fr. 



Fig. 294. 



Flocci persistent, joined into an 

 erumpent mass, at first covering the 

 simple spores. — Berh. Outl. p. 356. 

 Eng. Fl. Y.p. 352. {Fig. 294.) 



1872. Psilonia gilva. Ir. " Eeddish-grey Psilonia." 



Tufts subrotund, compact, reddish-grey, inclining to brown ; 

 flocci intricate, twisted, mostly simple, covering the variously 

 shaped spores. — Fr. S.M. iii-i?. 451. Eng. Fl. v. p. 353. Berk. 

 exs.no. 101. 



On dead herbaceous stems (" felled oak." — Eng. Fl.) 



