Brefeldia. Rostaftnskia. 91 



bodies are situated at the points where adjacent sporangia 

 meet. 



Distrib. Europe. Species 1. 



Brefeldia maxima, Eost. (figs. 254 256). 



Aethalium large, pulvinate, surface blackish with purple or 

 olive tints, rough with irregular wart-like nodules, seated on 

 a firm, silvery-looking hypothallus; capillitium dense, threads 

 irregularly anastomosing, dark coloured, with numerous inter- 

 calary clusters of vesicles ; spores in the mass blackish with 

 a purple tinge, globose, minutely warted, 13 17 p diameter. 



Brefeldia maxima, Eost., Mon., p. 213, figs. 60, 65, 66, 69, 

 70 j Cke., Myx. Brit., p. 53, figs. 60, 65, 66, 69, 70 ; Sacc., Syll., 

 vii., no. 1377; Eaunk., Myx. Dan., p. 96, t. 5, f. 13. 



Licea perreptans, Berk., Gard. Chron., 1848, p. 451. 



Exsicc. Cke., Fung. Brit., Ed. II., n. 518. 



On fallen trunks, &c. Britain (Eolleston, Kew) ; Germany. 



Foiming large pulvinate patches of irregular form varying 

 from 1 6 inches across. 



(Eostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Lycoperdon epidendrum, Sow., 400, f. 2, 3 (1809). 



Dermodium inquinans, Fr. Gast., 9 (1817). 



Rclicularia maxima, Fr. S. M., iii., 85 (1829); Eng. Fl., v., 



308; Cooke, Hdbk., No. 1097; Fungi Britt., ii., 518. 

 Lycoperdon echiniformis, Sow., t. 400, f. 1. 

 Licea perreptans, Berk., Gard. Chron. (1848), 451 ; Ann. Nat. 



Hist., No. 392; Cooke, Hdbk., No. 1196. 



EOSTAFINSKIA, Speg. 



Sporangia flexuous, intricately combined to form aethalia of 

 varying magnitude, seated on a floccoso-papyraceous hypothallus ; 

 columellas absent; capillitium well-developed, not furnished 

 with granules of lime, persistent, naked; spores globose or 

 irregular, coloured, present only in the central stratum of the 

 aethalium. 



