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fragile, 
_ CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI.. Reticularié (> 
Bull. 503, and 192, the lower left hand and the upper righ 
band figures.—Bolte 119, 1-Fl.. dan. 720-Schaff. 193= 
Buxb. ve 29. 2—Mich. 95. 2s A. Es : 3 “4 
This plant is globular, from { to } inch-diameter. When 
unripe the flesh is red ; when ripe, the seeds are pinky grey. 
It is either, 1. Orange coloured and smooth. ‘ 
2. Vermillion coloured ; black at the bottom. 
3. Lead coloured; smooth. ~~ 
> See 4, Bark grey brown; salmon-coloured within, 
“This might have been referred to Reticularia Lycoperdon, 
but that it rents open at the top. From the size of a pea to 
that of a horse-bean. Having only one coat it might arrange 
with the Lyc. pisiforme. 
In clusters on the stumps of fir trees. -» May. 
‘The tawny and smoke coloured varieties of M. Bulliard be. 
long also to the Lyc. epidendrum, but it does not appear that 
they have yet been seule in this island. 
_.. An elegant little fungus when fresh. Purple; frequently 
¢onfluent. Mr. Woopwarp. _ = 
Lye. variolosum. Huvs. On rotten wood, after rains. [At 
Field Dalling, Norfolk, on an old block. Mr. Woopwarp. 
About Packington.]} Aug.—Oct. 
Lyc, (Dickson.) Parasitical, mostly sitting, inversely 
-shaped, brown: bark. shining, brittle :. meal 
black, with soft hairs intermixed. , 
Sees Dicks. 3. 5- 
** “Pear-shaped, about 1-10th of an inch high, and nearly half 
as much in breadth, Sem, when any, membranaceous. It grows 
in clusters, and if the head when young should prove to be whit- 
ish, transparent or bladder-like, it must be referred to the genus 
Mucor. Dickson. | 
On ling, moss, leaves of ivy, &c. 
RETICULA’RIA. Roundish or oblong: soft 
and gelatinous when young; when older 
firm, friable, tearing open indiscriminately 
and discovering seeds entangled in capillary | 
fibres, reticulated membranes, or leather- 
like cases. : : 3 ag Set A 
~~ Oss. Never subterraneous; generally growing on other 
vegetables; seldom with stems, cushion-shaped or globular. 
Sometimes serpentine in its figure. Buttrarp.—It_is nearly al- 
lied to the genus Trichia, oe also tosome of the Lycoperdons. 
