which, forming under the cuticle, ejeds in aftonilliing 

 abundance an orange gummy-looking matter in long 

 fportive tendrils : but what is moft curious is, that the 

 fphasrules are black, and included, i, 2, 3, or more, in a 

 black fpongy fubftance, having alfo a black fubi^ance 

 within, from whence the tendrils flioot. The fphse- 

 rules are not always to be found in either of thefe 

 fpecies. 



T A B. CCCLXXVIIL 



Fig. I, 2 & 4. MUCOR TRiCHoiDEs. 



1 H I S is often one of the firft fpecies of vegetation 



on fubftances that imbibe fuperfluous moiil:ure, fuch as 



decayed vegetables, &c. Some grew on paper, fome 



on oak, and fome on Lichens. The head is oblong, and 



pointed. It varies from white to green, and is often 



very minute. 



Fig. 3. M. fuscipes. 



FOUND on a piece of very wet oak. It had a dark 

 brown ftipes and an oval head. We are not fure 

 whether or not it be a variety of the laft. 



Fig. 5, 6 «Sc 7. M. Mucedo. 



THIS varies extremely in fize, depending upon the 

 fituation in which it grows. In very moift cellars on 

 cat's dung, &c. it often grows very large, compofed of 

 tufts of very fine white pellucid filaments, from the loth 

 of an inch to three or four inches long, with round, 

 pellucid watery heads, occafionally producing white 

 powder. It often grows large on pafte. The feeds, 

 if I may fo call them, fometimes fall about the ftipes, 

 and are always difcharged by fudden drying. 



Fig. 8. M. fulvus. 



THIS may be a variety of the laft ; it is moftly 

 found dwarfifh ; the head larger in proportion, and in 

 its latter ftate the feeds often placed in a radiated form 



