which, forming under the cuticle, eje<^s in aftonifliing 

 abundance an orange gummy-looking matter in long 

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

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

 black fpongy fubftance, having alfo a black fubftance 

 within, from whence the tendrils fhoot. The fphas- 

 rules are not always to be found in either of thefc 

 fpecies. 



TAB. CCCLXXVIII. 



Fig. I, 2 8c 4. MUCOR trichoides. 



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

 on fubftances that imbibe fuperfluous moifture, 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 &: 7. M. Mucedo. 



THIS varies extremely in fize, depending upon the 

 fituation in which it grows. In very moifl 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 dwarfifti ; the head larger in proportion, and in 

 its latter ftate the feeds often placed in a radiated form 



