212 CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



119. BOTRYTIS. 



1. B. agaricina, pure white, flocculent ; filaments erect, pellu- 

 cid, tubular, scarcely jointed, irregularly branched ; branches 

 spreading, loaded with innumerable pellucid globular capsules, 

 unattached by any pedicle, and without any particular arrange- 

 ment. LINK in WILD. vi. 1. 54. LOUD. Encyclop. No. 16579. 



Hab. Parasitical on Uredo Candida in autumn, covering it 

 with a snow-white wool about 1 line in height. 



2. B. cinerea, tufted, flocculent, erect, smoky-grey ; filaments 

 tubular, jointed, sparingly and irregularly branched ; branches 

 spreading ; capsules subglobular, minute, chiefly attached about 

 the summits of the filaments LINK in WILD. vi. 1. 60. 



Hab. Parasitical on Sclerotium durum in early spring. 



So much like a small tuft of stained wool, that it may be 

 passed by as such. It forms a tuft about | inch in height, 

 sprinkled over with a greyish dust, formed of the capsules. 

 The joints are long, irregular, and when dry many of them 

 are alternately collapsed. 



120. RACODIUM. 



1. R. cellar e, filaments areneous, oli vaceous, irregularly branch- 

 ed, very slender, opake, and rather rigid HOOK. Scot. ii. 34. 

 GREV Fl. Edin. 470. ; Crypt. Fl t. 259. Byssus septica, LIGHTF. 

 Scot. 999. 



Hab. On casks and timbers in wine cellars, in cobweb-like 

 round tufts when young, more irregular when old. 



" If suffered to remain any long time upon the casks, it de- 

 cays the timber very much. In its last black and soft 

 state it is excellent to staunch blood, perhaps superior even 

 to the celebrated agaric," LIGHTFOOT. 



121. BYSSUS. 



1. B.floccosa, tufts roundish, snow-white, very soft ; filaments 

 simple, close, parallel. ^Bot. Gall. ii. 934. DILL. Muse. p. 5, 

 t. 1. f. 9. 



Hab. Wine cellars, on casks and timbers. 



