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stem thin, length variable, yellow, often reddish at the base, 

 filled with large, globose, or subangular cells, which pass upwards 

 into normal spores; mass of spores clear yellow, ochraceous- 

 orange, or tinged with olive; threads of capillitium 4 5 /* 

 thick, forked repeatedly and combined into an irregular open 

 net, free ends not numerous, obtuse, sometimes slightly swollen, 

 spirals thin, not prominent, rather distant ; spores globose, very 

 minutely and irregularly reticulated, 8 10 \L diameter. 



Hcmiarcyria clavata, Host., Mon., p. 264, figs. 205, 207, 210, 

 238; Cke., Myx. Brit., p. 68, figs. 205, 207, 210, 238; Sacc., 

 Syll., vii., 1, n. 1513; Mass., Mon. Trich., p. 31 ; Raunk., Myx. 

 Dan., p. 64; Schroeter, p. 114. 



Eocsicc. Fckl., F. Rhen., 1434; Jack, Leiner u. Sitzenb. 

 Krypt. Badens., 621 ; Ellis, N. Amer. Fung., 523. 



On decayed wood, &c. Britain (King's Clifie, Apethorpe, 

 Scarboro', Carlisle) ; France ; Germany ; Denmark ; United 

 States ; Cuba ; Brazil ; Ceylon ; Bonin Islands. 



Scattered or gregarious, 1'5 2 mm. high, stem slender, often 

 attenuated downwards and longitudinally wrinkled, sometimes 

 very short, especially when the sporangium is almost globose. 



The spores are usually covered with very thin, slightly raised 

 ridges combined into a very fine, irregular network, but the 

 ridires are sometimes short and distinct or even wart-like. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Clathrus pedatus, Schm. Ic., t. 33, f. 1, 17 (1776). 

 Spliacrocarpus pyriformis, Bull., t. 417, f. 2 (1791). 

 Stemonitis pyriformis, Gmel. Sys., 1469 (1791). 

 Trichia pyriformis, Sibth. Fl. Ox., 406 (1794) ; Sow., 400, f. 6. 

 Trkhia clavata, Pers. Disp., p. 11 (1797); Eng. Fl., v., 320; 



Cooke, Hdbk., 1183. 



Trichia citrina, Schum. Saell., 1460 (1803). 

 Arcyria trichioidcs, Rudolph, Linnaea, p. 120 (1829). 

 Trichia erythropus, Borszczow (1856). 

 Trichia dbtusa, Wigand, p 30, t. 11, f. 4 (1863). 

 Trichia Thwaitcsii, B. and Br., Ceylon Fung., No. 776 (1873). 



