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GENUS 324. ANTENNARIA.* Lk. 



Threads felted, black, articulated, often moniliform. "Walls of 

 sporangia mostly cellular. Spores chained together, immersed in 

 gelatinous pulp. 



Antennaria semiovata B. and Br. Hanham, ori fronds of Filix mas, 

 September, 1853. Annals of Nat. Hist., No. 784, with a figure, 



GENUS 325. ZASMIDIUM.t Fr. 



Sporangium thin, carbonaceous but brittle, growing on a septate, 

 byssoid, equal mycelium. Mouth subumbilicate. Spores simple. 

 Zasmidium cellare. Common in "wine cellars, forming brown, 

 byssoid tufts, rarely forming any fruit. 



ORDER 30. MUCORINI. 



Threads free, bearing terminal or lateral appendages. 



GENUS 326. ASCOPHORA.J Tode. 



Sporangia collapsing, and at length hanging down over the 

 fructifying apices like a hood. Fruit sometimes of two kinds. 

 Ascophora mucedo Tode. On bread, common. 



GENUS 327. MUCOR.§ Mick. 



Threads free. Sporangia at length bursting, but not dependent. 

 Mucor amethystiuus Berk. Rudlow, October, 1847, on rotting 

 pears. 



M ramosus Bull. Box, October, 1863, on rotten wood. 



M mucedo L. On paste, very common. 



M fusiger Lk Rudlow, October, 1843, on rotten Agarics. 



* Antennaria, from antenna, a sailyard. 



t Zasmidinm, perhaps from zosma, a kind of seaweed. 



X Ascophora, from ascos, a vessel, and phero, to bear. 



§ Mucor, mould. 

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