sinuo’sa. 
hydnoi’des. 
7 
septi Cae 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Reticularia, 
brown like a chesnut, but this latter colour only. appears whete 
it loses its outer skin, which is silvery grey. The. surface is 
smooth and shining, the whole substance very -light, and the 
coats very thin and brittle. The powder is of a reddish brown 
colour, and so extremely finethat the most powerful microscope 
is necessary to shew that its component particles are egg-shaped. 
.When rubbed upon the hand it prevents its being wet though 
immersed in water. 
This extraordinary plant grows on decayed stumps of wood, 
rails, &c. and at first oozes out a white froth, which, in time, 
becomes more dense, varying greatly in shape and colour. *— 
Ret. White, oblong, waved, pointed, 
Bull. 446. 3-Sowerby 6—Batsch. 170. 
This consists of numerous oblong white streaks, raised above 
the surface of the bark on which they grow. They are about 
3-5d of an inch long, scarcely the 0th of an inch broad, 
They open on the upper side at a kind of seam which extends 
he whee length of the plant, and are filled with a downy 
matter. . 
Discovered and drawn by. Mr. Stackhouse, who found it on 
the green bark of the willow, near to the bottom, where it lies 
in or near to the water. Mr. Sowerby found it in woods: and 
under damp hedges, on various kinds of herbages 
Rer. White, cobweb-like. 3 
~ When ‘magnified it appears beset with crooked spicula taper- 
dng to a sharp point. See os eee 
Found by Mr. Stackhonse overspreading a leaf of the Ve- 
ronica Chamedrys. ) 
Rer. Yellowish, viscid, slimy ; of various shapes. 
ie Scheff. 194-Fl. dan. 778. 
This always grows on decayed wood; is ofa smooth uniform 
substance, not. wrinkling like the Ret. ovata. In drying 3 
forms a smooth, thin, shining coat, instead of the scales which 
compose the outer coat of the latter. At first it resembles thick 
cream, or the running of cream’cheese. Mr. Woopwarp. 
Mucor septicus. Linn. On rotten wood, &c. [On old stumps 
of trees, frequent. Mr. Woopwarp. ] Sept.— May. 
Var. 1. Whitish, tice 
"Large, cottony and soft when young, brittle when old. Seeds 
tn large seeabranactogs cells. BuLLiarp. ne oF 
- Reticularia hortensis, Bulliatd. About Solihull, Warwick- 
shire, | aoe xs 
