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GENUS 328. HYDROPHORA.* Tods. 



Threads erect, tubular, sparingly articulate, equal above, ter- 

 minated by a vesicle which is at first watery and crystalline, then 

 turbid, and at length indurated and persistent from the conglo- 

 meration of the spores. 

 Hydrophora stercorea Tode. On dung, common. 



GENLS 329. ENDODROMLLt Berk. 



Vesicle very delicate, perforated by the stem, filled with 

 delicate, branched, radiating threads, and globose spores, with a 

 nucleus endowed with active motion. 



Endodromia ^ntrea.Berk. Hook, f. 1., 1841, iii., t. 1, fig. C. ; has 

 not occurred in the district. 



GENUS 330. SPORODINIA.t Lk. 



Stem dichotomously branched. Vesicles solitary, terminal, 

 at length splitting horizontally. Columella large. Spores 

 simple, growing on the columella. This genus has not occurred 

 in our district. 



GENUS 331. ACRObTALAGMUS§ Cda. 



Flocci branched. Branches verticillate. Vesicles terminal, 

 pierced by the threads, from the tips of which the spores are 

 produced within the cells. 



• Hydrophora, from udor, water, and phero, to bear. 



t Endodromia, from endos, within, and dromos, a running about. 



J Sporodinia, from sporos, a seed, and diueuo, to whirl about or 



move. Link remarks " continuatio Wild, c. I. P- 91, ' Ehrenberg vidit 



massam sporulosam e floccis in sporangium moveri.' " 



§ Acrostalagmus, from akros, pointed, and stalagmos, a drop, or a state 



of dropping. 



