TEICHODERMACEI. 



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Order XXII. TRICHODERMACEI. 



Flocci covering the spores, and forming a kind of peridium, 

 which at length vanishes in the centre. — Berk. Outl.p.SoQ. 



Gen. 260. 



FILACRE, Fr. 



Fig. 295. 



Stem solid, cylindrical ; head globose, com- 

 posed of flexuous, branched, radiating threads ; 

 spores produced near the tips, forming a dusty 

 mass. — Berk. Outl.p. 356. {.Fig. 295.) 



1875. Pilacre faginea. B.<bBr. "Beecli 



Pilacre.". 



Stem blackish, pruinose ; head subglobose ; 

 spores broadly elliptic. — Ann, N.H. no. 380, t. 

 11,/. 5 . Onygena faginea, Fr. S. M. iii.p. 209. 

 Kl. exs. no. 1724. Fckl. exs. ?zo. 1073. 



On beech sticks. Aug. Spye Park, Wilts. 



[United States.] 



About 2 lines tigh ; stem 1\ line high, pruinose, at 

 length brown or blackish ; head subglobose or turbin- 

 ate, at first pruinose, umbilicate, or without trace of umbilicus ; flocci 

 branched, especially above, somewhat fastigiate, more or less flexuous ; 

 spores minute ; broadly elliptic, with a distinct nucleus.— J/./. 5. 



1876. Pilacre Petersii. B.&CuH. " Hornbeam Pilacre." 



Stem short, v^^hite ; head large ; flocci nearly straight. — Ann. 



N.H.no.^24t. Curt. exs. no. ^^11. 



On hornbeam. Hainault Forest. [Alabama, U.S.] 



Stem 2 lines high, white ; head 1-2 lines or more across, threads anas- 

 tomosing, far less flexuous than in P. faginea. Spores snuff-coloured, about 

 ("0002 in.) "005 m.m across. When fresh it has a smell like that of some 

 Hypericura. In habit the species resembles a little Nyctalis. — B.djBr. 



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