(CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Reticularia, 379 
Tt seems to include what Haller intended by his new genus Fv- 
rico; and probably.a little more observation will demonstrate 
that neither the Fuligo of Haller, nor the Reticularia of Bul. 
liard, can properly embrace the whole of the other, and there- 
fore that both must be adopted. 
Rer.Stem conical, head convex, flat underneath 3 whitish, hemisphe’. 
Pe . Sowerby 13-Ball. 446, 1. Tica, 
The size of a large pin’s head; white, opening at the top + 
and then disco’ rng the fibrous matter and seeds of a reddish . 
brown colour. Bulliard says the head is divided into cells. : 
On dead leaves, sticks, and on moss, in woods and moist 
— See Sowerby’s. admirable coloured plates of English 
ungis but in the text read pl. 13, not pl. 12, as printed by 
mistake, ? r 
Rer. Heads cushion-like, sitting, white, cottony.  carno’sa, 
. ae = = ‘ = Bull, 424.16 i . 
Nearly egg-shaped, larger than a pea, clustered together; 
fleshy ; harder vik age, and filled 8 black. substance 
_ marbled with white. But. as ie 
Mucer carnosus. Dicks. fasc. iii. 23. On rotten wood. Sept. 
Ret. Stemless : capsule membranaccous, somewhat egg Lycoper’> 
shaped, fibrous within, don, 
Bull. 476. 1-Bolt. 133. 2-Mich, 95. 1, Lycogala—Gled. 6, 
Mucor f. 1. a. f 
Brown and somewhat pear-shaped when young; white and 
egg-shaped when old. From } inch to more than an inch long, ee 
and half as much in diameter. Boiron. é 
Mucor Lycogala. Bolt, Lycoperdon fuscum. Huds, On rot- 
ten trunks of trees. Sept.—May. 
Var. 1. Silvery grey changing to brown; powdery and | 
brown within. | i : 
Bull, 446, 4-Schaff. 195. 3. 
I was long doubtful under what genus this oughtto be placed. 
It rents open indiscriminately, which excludes it from the 
Lycoperdons, and in its want of evident woolly fibres or mem- 
branes, it appears to differ from the Reticularia, and the powder 
not being black excludes it from the Fuligo of Haller. But in 
the. larger specimens and in its more advanced res of growth, 
the woolly fibres become sufficiently evident, I have always 
found it upon-cloven oak rails, It is generally egg-shaped, but ; 
flatted on the side next the rail, to which it adheres by a large 
surface, without any evident root. It is from the size of a lar 
pea to that of a Spanish chesnut, Its celour, brown, or redd 
