10/2 CRYPTCGAMIA ALG^. 



The ftalks are black, about two lines in height, 

 bearing each a fingle head, ibmetimes a double 

 or treble one, of the fize of rr.uilard or poppy- 

 feeds, of a rcundiih figure at firfl, but, when 

 burft, often fiatcifli or truncated, and of a black 

 coloj*. The internal powdered dov>'n is black, 

 with a tinee of green. 



** Fugaces. 



mucedo. 3' M. ftipitatus, capfula globofa, Sp.pl. 1655. (Mi* 

 chel. tab. 95. /. i. Oedcr. Dan. t. /i^6j. f. 4. 

 opt. Malpigh.Vegelat. t. iS-f^ ^o^. P. ^) 



Common grey Mould. Anglis. 



Upon bread, fruits, plants, and other fubflances 

 in a putrid ilate. It grows in clufters, the 

 (lalks a quarttrr of an inch high, pellucid, hol- 

 low, and cylindrical, fupporting each a fingle 

 globular head, at nrft tranfparent, afterwards 

 dark-grey, which burfts with elaftic force, and 

 cjeds fmall round feeds difcoverable by the 

 microfcope. 



glaiicus 4. M. ftipitatus, capitulo fubrotundo aggregato. . 

 Sp. pi. 1656. {Michel, gen. 212. /. 91. /. 2* 

 Malpigh. Vegetal, t. iS-f- 108; L.M.N.) 

 Grey clufler- headed Mould. Anglis, 

 Upon rotten apples,' melons, and other fruitSj 



