MUCOEINI. 



629 



Order XXIV. MUCORIX^I. 



Threads free, bearing terminal or lateral sporangia. — BerJc. 

 Outl.pAOl. 



Sporangia collapsing and dependent .... 

 Sporangia bursting, not dependent .... 



Sporangia at length indurated — 



Ejected 



Isot ejected 



Sporangia delicate, perforated by the stem — 



Sporidia globose, mixed with radiatingthreads 

 Sporangia splitting horizontally — 



Sporidia growing on the columella 

 Sporangia pierced by the threads ; branches verticillate — 



Sporidia on the tips of the threads 

 Vesicles of separate branches conjugating — 



Producing a sporangium .... 



Flocci collected in a spongy globose mass. Hypoggeous — 



Vesicles globose 



Ascophora. 

 Mucor. 



PUoholus. 

 Hydrophora. 



Endodromia. 



Sjyorodinia. 



Acrostalagmus. 



Syzygites. 



Endogone. 



Gen. 265. 



ASCOPHORA, Tode. 



Fig. 299. 



Sporangia collapsing, and at 

 length hanging down over the 

 fructifying apices like a hood. 

 Fruit sometimes of two kinds. 

 Berk Outl.p. 407. {Fig. 299.; 



1880. Ascophora znucedo. Tode. " Common Ascophora."' 



Flocci simple ; sporangia terminal, at first globose, then oval, 

 at length collapsed, sub-campannlate, whitish, then dark ashy- 

 grey. — Fr. S.M. \i\.p. 310. Tode. i. t. 3,/. 22. Corda. Anl. t. c. 

 f. 24:, no. 1-4:. Xees.f. 80. Grev. t.2e9. Fng.Fl.r.jj. 331. Pay./. 

 370. FcJd. exs. no. 54. Ccera. Act. Belg. ^iii./. 17. Pringsh.Jalirh. 

 \\.t. 30,/. 29. Bisch.f. 3790. 



On bread, &c. Common. [Mid. Carolina.] (Fig. 299.) 



