630 



MUCORINI. 



1881. 



Ascophora elegans. Corda, " Elegant Ascopliora." 



Tufts minute, very fugacious, white ; stem erect, rigid, fragile, 

 white, simple above, with intricate dichotomous branches at the 

 base ; sporangia single, terminal, globose, brownish ; sporidia 

 ovoid. — Corda. iii./. 43. Tliamnidium elegans, LJc. Ohs. i. t. 2,/. 45. 

 Nees.f. 75. Flora. 1857, t 6,f. 70. 



On fowl's dung. 



Gen. 266. 



MUCOR, Mich. 



Fig. 300. 



Threads free; sporangia at length 

 bursting, but not dependent. — Berk. 

 OutLp.4:07. (Fig. 300.) 



1882. 



Berk. 



IVIucor phycomyces. 



" Shining Mucor." 



Mycelium obsolete, flocci decumbent, 

 olivaceous, shining ; sporidia yellowish. 

 — BerJc. Outl.p.Ai^)! . Phycomyces nitens, 

 Bisch.f. 3792. Fr. S.M.m.p.^^'d. Kunze. 

 M.H. ii. t. 2. /. 9. Ann. N.H. no. 224. 

 Byssus olivaceus, Winch. Fl. North, p. 

 121. 



On greasy walls, fat, &c. [Low. Carolina.] 



1883. 



IVIucor raxnosus. Bull. ** Branched Mucor." 



Laniform ; fertile flocci branched, above racemose ; sporangia 

 globose.— 5wZZ. t. 480,/. 3. Fr. S.M. iii. p. 318. Fers. Obs. i. t. 

 6,/. 5, 6. Eng.Fl.Y. p. 331. 



On rotting fungi, &c. 



Sometimes the sporangia are reddish-brown, more commonly yellow then 

 hluish-grey. The branches are alternate and racemose, divaricate. 



1884. 



BEucor xnucedo. L. *' Common Mucor." 



Byssoid; fertile flocci simple ; sporangia and sporidia globose, 

 at length blackish. — Linn. Sp. 1655. Bolt. 1. 132, /. 1. Sow. t. 

 378,/. 6. Fr. S.M. p. 320. Fng. Fl. v. p. 332. Bull. t. 480,/. 2. 

 Mich. t. 95,/. 1. Fres. t. l,f. 1-12. 



On fruit, paste, preserves, &c. Common. [United States.] 



