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larger spores. The spores sometimes show indistinct indications 

 of warting under 1200 diameters. 



Stemonitis ferruginea, Host. (figs. 160, 161). 



Densely gregarious, on a well-developed hypo th a 11 us ; spor- 

 angium cylindrical, obtuse, wall thin, dark brown, evanescent ; 

 stem slender, blackish, equal to or shorter than sporangium; 

 columella reaching to the apex of the sporangium, blackish ; 

 capillitium dense, threads dark brown, tapering, combined to 

 form an irregular network, the peripheral meshes abend equal- 

 ling the spores in diameter; spores in the mass bright brmvn, 

 pale brown by transmitted light, globose, smooth, 6 9 f* 

 diameter. 



Stemonitis ferruginea, Rost., Mon., p. 196, figs. 31 39, 41 44, 

 and 50 ; Cke., Myx. Brit., p. 47, figs. 3139, 4144, and 50 ; 

 Sacc., Syll., vii., n. 1365. 



Exsicc. Rav., Fung. Car., 75 (typical) ; Rav., Fung. Amer., 

 788. 



On rotten wood, &c. Britain (Lyndhurst, Highgate, Scarboro', 

 Carlisle, Linlithgow) ; Europe ; United States ; Mexico ; S. 

 Domingo; Cuba; Rangoon; Ceylon; Queensland; New Zealand. 



Usually densely gregarious, 1 1*5 cm. high. Readily dis- 

 tinguished by the small peripheral meshes of the capillitium 

 and the bright brown colour of the spores in the mass. 



(Rostafiuski's Synonyms.) 



Stemonitis typhina, Willd., Ber., 408 (1787). 



Clathrus nudus, Bolt., t. 93, f. 1 (1789). 



Trichia axifera, Bull, t. 447, f. 1 (1791). 



Stemonitis fascidata, Pers., Syn., 187 (1801). 



Stemonitis violacea, Schum., Saell., 1491 (1803). 



Stemonitis fasciculata, DC., Fl. Fr., ii., 256 (1805). 



Stemonitis ferruginea, Ehr., Syl. Ber., f, vi. a b (1818) ; Cooke, 



Hdbk., No. 1156. 



Stemonitis decipiens, Nees. Nov. Act. Leop., xvi. 95 (1821). 

 Stemonitis heterospora, Oudem. Ned. Kr. Arch., L, 167 (1872). 



