3-28 ruNGi. [Tsaria, 



from the tlialliis. Sporidia subpelliicid; mixed with gelatinous 

 pulp. — Name, ^a/rjj, a hair. 



1. C. eldhim, Kunze, (tall ChcElomium') ; peridium subovate, 

 base radiato-fibrous, hairs of the vertex very long interwoven 

 branched, sporidia elliptic. Kunze, Myc. Hef. },p. 15. 6. 1./. 

 9. Grev. Sc. Crypt. Fl. t. 230. Fr. Syst. Mijc. v. 3. p. 254. 

 Scler, Sued n. 459. — Sphceria scojjula, Sow.! t 386./^ 4. 



On mouldering straw, old matting, damp plaister, &c. Very com- 

 jnon. — Sporidia broadly elliptic, apiculate at either end. Varying from 

 black to brown, and with a more or less crustaceous peridium. 



2. C. cliartdrum, Ehr. (Paper Chmtoriuni) ; peridium sub- 

 globose black surrounded by a bright yellow spot, sporidia sub- 

 globose. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 3. p. 255. 



On silver paper shut up with fungi in a tin box. Stibbington, Hunts. 

 Hev. M. J. Berkeley. — In the specimens before me, which have been 

 gathered many years, the yellow spots which appear to be Tiih'mth alius 

 are nearly gone. The sporidia are decidedly more globose than in C^ 

 elatum, having very little of the peculiar lemon-like form of that species. 



105. Illosporium. Mart, Illosporium. 

 Peridium subgelatinous, falling to pieces. Sporidia simple, 

 pellucid, generally surrounded by an \\y?XmQ peridiolum. — Name 

 /aXw, to involve^ and crro^o;. seed, 



1. /. roseum, Fr. (rose-coloured Illosporium) ; heaped up into 

 an irregular tubercle, soft breaking to pieces, rose-coloured. 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 3. p. 258. — Tuhcrcidaria rosea, Pers. Syn. p, 

 114. — Palmella rosea, Lyngh, Hyd. Dan. p. 207. Grev. Scot, 

 Crypt. FL t. b\. Fl. Ed. p. 323. 



On various Lichens, as Parmelia saxatilis, he. Common, but sel- 

 dom abundant. — It is highly probable that the black granules, figured by 

 Sowerby in Eng. Bot. on Lichen Glaucoma, are Sclerococcum sphce- 

 rale, Fr. but this is scarcely sufficient authority for its insertion. 



Suborder 3. Hypmomycetes. (yf>j, a weh, and {Mv/.y^;, a 

 fungus.) — Sporidiferous jlocci naked (not included in a uterus or 

 seated on a proper receptacle), distinct or interivoven in a common 

 trunk. 



Tribe 1. Cephalotrichei. ('/.zcpakri, a head, and %/|.) — 

 Flocci collected into a common vertical or horizontal sporidiferous 

 stroma, 



106. Is ARIA. Hill. Isaria. 



Stroma elongated, formed of densely interwoven^om, clothed 

 with patent sporidiferous flocci, Sporidia globose, simple. — 

 (Name, icogt equal.) 



1. I.farinosa, Fr. (mealy Isaria) ; subcsespitose white, stem 

 clistinct simple at length smooth, clavulse incrassated mealy. 

 Fr, Syst, Myc, v, 3, p, 271. — Ramariafarinosaj'Holmsk, Ot,!,. 



