CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. 
Var. 2, Reddish, 46 | 
Schaef. 195, ‘apa 
Have frequently seen it tinged with red, and sometimes more 
so than thefig. in Schzeffer’s plate. Mr, Woopwarp. 
Rer. Stemless, egg-shaped, mucilaginous, hairy, yellow- ova’tas 
ish: gills cellular, vanishing, turning to dust, black- 
ish: seeds black, adhering to threads. Scuxrr, 
ind, 132... ‘ Lo: 
Scheff. 192-Bolt. 134—Mich. 96. 2-Bull. 380. 1. 
On moss or leaves bright yellow; on tanner’s- bark pale 
brown, and on this last it sometimes covers a surface. of more 
* than a foot diameter. Haller ranks it, as Lightfoot observes, 
under his genus Fz/ige, with the characters of which both this 
and Lycoperdon epiphyllum correspond. Mr. Woopwarp. _ 
M. septicus, Lightf. 1073, Mr. Woobwarn. Woods on ‘ 
Erase. ght ODE Neth ee e es 45 ee co, Aug. 
Var. 2, White, frothy, large, turning to a black powder. 
Ball 326.253: Sear eye: 
T once found this on the stump of an elm which had been 
sawn off close to the ground, of a very great size, not less than 
2 inch thick ‘in the mass, and from 12 to 15 inches diameter. It 
continued white about 5 days. 
Reticularia alba. Bulliard. 
"The readet is indebted to Mr. Stackhouse for the ae 
history of this remarkable plant, the circumstances of whic 
there is reason to believe also apply to the Retic. septica. 
Its first appearance is like custard spilt upon the grass or 
leaves. ‘This soon becomes frothy, and then contracts round the 
blades of grass or leaves in the form of little tubercles united 
together. On examining it in its different stages under the mi- 
croscope, it first appeared like a cluster of bubbles irregularly 
shaped, and melting into one another. In the second stage it 
appeared imbricated or tiled with open cells, the edges of the 
cells beautifully waved. A blackish powdery matter on the 
surface of the cells ‘now gives the plant a greyish cast. In the 
third stage the wavy imbrication es and the plant settles 
into minute tubercles united together, Some of these are 
closed, but many appear as if torn open, and out of the cavity 
emerge little downy strings with irregular shaped terminations, 
and other similar irregular bodies on the same strings, like the 
heads of some of the genus Mucor, but nothing of a xetwort, 
from whence Bulliard has denominated the genus. It scems 
nearly allied, in its last stage, to the Lycoperdons, and is not 
Very unlike the Retic. Lycoperdon, as figured by Bulliard, 
here Bawa black; parasitical, fibrous within,  segetum. 
