194 



moniliform threads at the apices of flexuous, branched, radiating, 



compacted peduncles. 



1. — ^gerita Candida P, on wood, Batheaston. Warleigh, 



ORDER 10. DEMATIEI. 



Threads free, rarely connected into stipitiform bundles, more 

 or less corticated and carbonised, as are frequently the simple or 

 septate spores. 



GENUS 192. ARTHROBOTRYUM.* Cesati. 



Common stem composed of jointed threads ; spores large 

 radiating so as to form a little head, dark, septate. 

 1. — Arthrobotryum atrum B. and Br. Ann. Nat. His., No, 822, 



May, 1859, t 9, fig. 6. On dead nettle .stems, Batheaston. 

 ^. — A stilboideum C'e.«, in Hedwigia t 4, fig. 1. Batheaston, 



on dead wood, April. 



GENUS 193. DENDRYPHIUM.t fJda. 



Threads free, jointed, simple below, branched above ; branches 

 often monilioid ; spores septate, seated on the tips of the branches, 

 concatenated. 

 1. — Dendryphium comosum, Wallc On dead nettles, Batheaston, 



December. 

 2. — D curtum B. and Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., Ser. H., vii., 



176. No. 538 cum icone. On dead nettles, Batheaston. 

 3. — D laxum B. and Br., 1. c, cum icone. No. 539, cum 



icone. Batheaston, on rotten cabbage stalks. 

 4. — D griseum B. and Br., 1. c, No. 540, cum icone. On 



nettle stems, Batheaston. 



GENUS 194. PERICONIA.J Cda. 



Stem composed of fasciculate, compacted threads ; heads globose ; 

 spores fixed to the free apices of the threads. 



* From arthron a. joint, and botrys a bunch of grapes. 



t From dendron a tree, and phue form or habit. 



% From peri around, and konis, dust. 



