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GENUS 234. VIRGAEIA.* Nees. 



Flocci erect, dichotomous, virgate, black, septate : spores 

 minute, scattered over the Ijranches. The Genus has not occurred 

 in the district. 



GENUS 235. BOLACOTRICHA.f B. and Br. 



Flocci simple, jointed, curled at the top ; spores large, globose, 

 shortly pedicillate, conglomerated towards the base of the flocci. 

 Bolacotricha grisea B. and Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., Ser. II., vii., 97. 

 No. 506 cum icone. On rotten cabbage stalks, Batheaston. 



GENUS 236. MYXOTRICHUM.J Kze. 



Flocci branched, bearing to^yards their base little, conglomerated 

 masses of spores. 



1. — Myxotrichum chartarum Kze. On damp paper, Batheaston. 

 2.— M deflexum Berh. Ann Nat. Hist., Ser. I., i., 260. 



No. 122, cum icone, Batheaston. On damp paper. 

 S. — M ochraceum B. and Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., 1875, 



No. 1475, Jan., 187-5. On wood shavings, St. Catherine's, 



Batheaston. 



GENUS 237. GONYTKICHUM.§ Nees. 



Flocci branched, here and there bearing knots, from which 

 spring the verticillate, fertile, septate threads, crowned at their 

 tips with a globose mass of spores. 



1. — Gonytrichum coesium Nee^. On dead wood, Batheaston. 

 2. — G fuscum Cdn. On dead wood, Batheaston. 



GENUS 238. MENISPORA.il P. 

 Flocci erect, jointed ; spores heterogeneous, seated at the tips 



• From virga, a twig or rod. 



t From bolax, a clod, and thrix, a hair. 



X From rayxa, gluten, and thrix, a hair. 



§ From gonos, an offspring, and thrix, a hair. 



II From mene, the moon, and sporos, seed, from the form of the spores (P) 



