

TRICHIA 289 



very distinct; capillitial mass ochraceous or tawny yellow, the elaters 

 long, even, 4-6 /jl wide, the spirals four, more or less spinulose, generally 

 joined by longitudinal ridges, the apices short, tapering regularly, 

 occasionally bifurcate; spore-mass concolorous; spores by transmitted 

 light bright yellow, marked by an irregular or fragmentary banded 

 reticulation, the bands broad, flat and pitted, 10-13 p. Plasmodium 

 said to be white. 



This species, common throughout the northern world, is distinguished 

 from T. favoginea not only by the episporic character, but generally 

 by its different peridium and more somber colors. It never shows at 

 maturity the brilliant golden yellow fluff that hangs in masses about 

 the open and empty vases of T. favoginea, a fact not unnoted by 

 Batsch, and rendering his figure and description of that species so 

 far determinable. 



The episporic network shows all degrees of perfection or imperfec- 

 tion, and the elater also varies somewhat both in the apices and the 

 distinctness of the longitudinal striae. The several synonyms listed seem 

 to have taken origin in a recognition of some of the more pronounced 

 variations. In any event the American form T. abrupta Cke., with 

 bifid apices, belongs here, and European specimens seem to show the 

 identity of forms described by Karsten and de Bary. 



Not rare. New England, Canada, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, 

 Wisconsin, Alabama, Missouri, west to Washington, Peru. Temperate 

 regions generally, also South Africa, Ceylon, Java, Manchuria, Japan. 



14. Trichia verrucosa Berk. 



in Hooker, Fl. Tasm. 2 : 269. 1860. 

 PL XIX, Figs. 512, 513. 



1889. Trichia superba Massee, Jour. R. Micr. Soc. 345. 



Sporangia pyriform or obovoid, shining, large, 2-4 mm. tall, 0. 8 mm. 

 broad, ochraceous from the color of the contents, stipitate, more or 

 less botryoid or connate; stipe twice the height of the spore-case, red- 

 dish brown, simple or consolidated with others, weak, inclined or pro- 

 cumbent; hypothallus distinct; elaters simple, with smooth tapering 

 points, spirals three or four; spore-mass ochraceous yellow; spores 

 beautifully and strongly reticulate, as in Trichia favoginea, with the 

 meshes generally complete and always large, quite variable in size, 

 12-16 ix. 



Washington, Mexico, West Indies, Brazil, Chile. Originally de- 

 scribed from Tasmania, the species is said to occur generally in Aus- 

 tralia, also in Great Britain, Portugal, Java, Japan. 



