Miicor.] FUNGI. 331 



some weeks in a tin box with wet moss. Stibbington, Hunts. Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley . — About | a line high, stem rather more than |- the whole height; 

 head somewhat granulated, compact and not the least pulverulent when 

 dry, dissolving in water and giving out a multitude of minute, subcylindric 

 sporidiay which are spread over the depressed black apex of the stem. 



110. AscoPHORA. Tode. Ascophora. 



Sporidia (at length ?) spread over a rounded, inflated, ter- 

 minal vesicle. Flocci fistulose, septate. — Name, affxoj, a vessel^ 

 and (p'zou, to bear, 



I. A, 3Iucedo, Tode, {commo7i Ascophora). Tode, Fung. 

 Mech.f. 22. Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 448. Sc. Crypt. Fl. t. 269. Fr, 

 Syst. Myc. v. 3. p. 310. 



On various bodies, especially bread. Common. — The peridiolam at 

 length collapses and falls down round the top of the stem, assuming a 

 canipanulate form. 



111. Hydrophora. Tode. Hydrophora. 



Peridiolum at first crystalline, watery, then turbid, at length 

 indurated, persistent. Sporidia conglobated. Flocci tubular, 

 erect, subseptate. — Name, u^wg, water, and f --gw, to hear. 



1. H. stercorea, Tode, {common Hydrophora) ; fleecy, flocci 

 simple very long fugacious white, peridiola spherical yellow at 

 lengtli black. Tode, I. c. 2. p, 6. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 3. p. 314. 

 — 3Iucor stercorens, Lk. Sp. 1. p. 90. Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 448. 



On dung of various animals after much rain. Common. — Distin- 

 guished from analogous species oi 3Iiicor, by the crystalline, watery, not 

 membranous, and dehiscent peridiolum, and the indurated mass of 

 sporidia not falling away in water. 



2. H. murina, Fr. (rat's-diwg Hydrophora) ; flocci scattered 

 short simple persistent wliite, peridiola splierical yellow at 

 length opaque. Fr. Syst. 3Iyc. v. 3. p. S\5.—J}Iucor imninus, 

 Pers. Syn.p. '2Q\.—Mi(cor fidvus, Soiv. t. 400./. 4. 



On rata' dung. Sowerhy. 



112. MucoR. Mich. Mould. 



Sporidia discrete, contained within a rounded membranaceous 

 dehiscent jnridiolum, bursting forth when immersed in water. 

 Flocci tubular, more or less septate.— Name ; mucor, mould. 



1. M.ramosus, Bull, (branched Moidd) ; laniform, fertile flocci 

 branched above racemose, peridiola globose. Bull. t. 480. /' 3. 

 Fr. Si/st. Myc. V. 3. p. 318.— 3/. ruj'us, Pers. Syn. p. 200. 

 —M.favidus, Pers. Ohs. 1. t. (>./. 5, 0. b. Syn.p. 199. 



On rotting fungi, ^-c. Thorniiaugh, Norths. lirv.M.J. lirrhlty.-^ 

 My specimens belong to the variety with yellow, then bUicishijrey, peri- 

 diola. Soinetimcs they arc reddish-brown. The branches are alternate 

 and racemose. In the ilry phint they arc, at least in my specimens, 

 €.\treuiely divaricate. 



