Tubulina. 37 



Rostafinski's gratuitous suggestion that the present species 

 is a Phelonitis is altogether wrong. 



Tubulina flexuosa, Mass. 



Sporangia scattered, sessile on a broad base, circular or variously 

 elongated and flexuous, wall thin, single, shining; deep olive or 

 tinged loith broivn ; mass of spores olive ; spores globose, pale 

 olive-brown, minutely warted, the warts showing a tendency to 

 form very short ridges, 12 .15 p, diameter. 



Licea flexuosa, Pers., Syn. fung., p. 197, t. 1, f. 5, 6 ; Host., 

 Mon., p. 218; Schroet, p. 102; Sacc., 1382. 



(Specimen named by Rostafinski in Herb. Berk.) 



On decaying wood, especially pine. Britain (Aboyne, N. B.) ; 

 Finland ; Sweden ; Germany. 



From 1 1'5 mm. when circular, often 2 3 mm. when 

 elongated. The wall of the sporangium is furnished inside with 

 a layer of fine granules of organic matter. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Licea flexuosa, Pers., Syn. p. 197, t. 1, f. 5, 6 (1801). 

 Tubulina flexuosa, Poir., Enc., I.e. viii. no. 8 (1808). 

 L. serpula, Fr., Sym. Gast., p. 12 (1817). f 



L. spadicea, Fr., cfr., I.e. iii. p. 197 (1829). 

 Lycogala consortium, Lk., Herb, non Ditm. 

 Aethalium minimum, Wallr., in litt. 

 Aethalium microscopicum, Wallr., Herb. 

 Licea alutacea, Wallr., Fl. Ger. cr. n. 2106 (1833). 



Tubulina spermoides, Mass. 



Sporangia cylindrical, shorter than broad, crowded, rarely 

 scattered towards the circumference of the clusters, apex slightly 

 rounded, wall very thin, dull, breaking up into whitish fragments, 

 seated on a well-developed, thin hypothallus; mass of spores 

 olive ; spores globose, 6, 7 /x diameter, equally covered all over 

 with minute warts. 



Licea spermoides, B. and C., Grev. v. 2, p. 68. 



Cribraria argillacca, Sacc., Syll., 7, n. 1415 (in part). 

 (Type in Herb. Berk. n. 10854.) 



On wood, leaves, &c. Alabama. Sporangia in a single stratum, 



