636 



MTJCOEIXI. 



On decaying plants. 



A very beautiful and not uncommon species, often of a ruddy pink rather 

 than Vermillion. {Fig. 305, mapiijkd.) 



Gen. 272, 



SYZYGITES, Ehrb. 



Threads branched above ; 

 vesicles of separate branches 

 conjugating and forming a 

 distinct sporangium. — Berk. 

 Outl.p. 408. i^Fig. 306.) 



1900. Syzygites megalocax- 



pus. £hb. " Conjugating 



Syzygites." 



Tufts effused, irregular, 

 dingy; olive-brown or glau- 

 cous ; flocci intricate, fili- 

 form, cystomorphous ; 

 branches large, clavate, in- 

 ^ig- 306. flated, at first flesh coloured, 



then dingy ; sporangia brown, verrucose, shining ; spores ovate, 

 whitish. -^£'/zr. S^l. Ber. p. 21, t. 2. Corda Pracht. t. 24. Bisch. 

 f. 3794. ^^'ees. t. 5. (Fig. 306.; 



On decaying agarics. 



Gen. 273. 



ENDOGONE, Link. 



Hypogfeous ; flocci collected into a glo- 

 bose, spongy mass ; vesicles globose, soli- 

 tary, or collected in little fascicles at the 

 ends of the branches. — F?\ S.M.u.p.2d6. 

 Tul.Hi/p. p. 181. Berk. Outl.p. 4.08. 



{Fig. 307.) 



Fig. 307. 



1901. Endogone pisiforxnis. Link. " Pea-shaped Endogone." 



Irregularly globose, yellowish, dry ; vesicles large, visible to 

 the naked eje.—Link. Obs. t. 2,/. 52. Tul. Hyp. p. 183, t. 20, /. 

 1. Corda. Ic. vi. t. 9,/. 94. Corda. Anl. t. c.f. 40, no. 4, 5. B. ^ 

 Br. Ann. N.H. xviii.;;. 81. Berk. Outl. t. 24,/. 7. Gard. Chron. 

 14 Mar. 1845. 



