Tubulina. 4 1 



Eeticularia multicapsula, Sow., t. 179 (1799). 



Tubulina cylindrica, D. C., FJ. F., 674 (1805). 



Tubulina fragif era, Poir., Ency., viii. No. 3 (1808). 



Licca fragiformis, Nees, f. 102 (1816); Eng. Fl., v. p. 321; 



Cooke, Hdbk., 1194; Fung. Brit., ii. 528. 

 Dermodium fallax, Nees, f. 103 (1816). 

 Licca cylindrica, Fr., S. Myc., iii. 195 (1829) ; Eng. FL, v. 391 ; 



Cooke, Hdbk., No. 1193. 

 Licea iricolor, Zoll., in Flora (1847), p. 300. 

 Tubulina conglobata, Preuss., Linnaea, 140 (1851). 



Tubulina effusa, Mass. 



Aethalium naked, sporangia seated on a firm, common hypo- 

 thallus, irregular from mutual pressure, in a single stratum or 

 superposed, walls very thin, lustrous, grown together ; free apices 

 of sporangia slightly convex, giving the surface of the aethalium a 

 granular appearance ; mass of spores ochraceous-umber ; spores 

 globose, yellowish-brown, very indistinctly verruculose, 6 8 /x 

 diameter. 



Lindbladia effusa, Host., Mon., p. 223 ; Schroet., p. 103 ; Cooke, 

 Myx. Brit., p. 55 ; Sacc., Syll., no. 1395. 



On the ground and on wood. Britain (Leicester, Epping, 

 Scarboro', Aboyne, Forres, Linlithgow); Germany; Sweden; 

 France ; Bohemia. 



Often forming compact, flattened cakes extending for three 

 or four inches, sometimes much smaller ; superficially closely 

 resembling Tubulina cylindrica, but the mass of spores with 

 a yellower tinge, and the present species also differs in the 

 shorter sporangia, which are not so uniform in their arrange- 

 ment as in T. cylindrica. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Licca effusa, Ehr., Sylv., p. 26, f. i. (1818). . 

 Aethalium melacnum, Chev. Byss., iii. (1837). 

 Lindbladia tululina, Fr., S. V. S., 449 (1849). 

 Aethalium atrum, Preuss., Linnaea, 141 (1851). 



