Trichia. 191 



Trichia turbinata, With. Arr., iv., 480 (1792) ; Sow., t. 85 ; 



Eng. Fl., v., 320; Cooke, Hdbk., 1186. 

 Trichia pyriformis, Pers. Disp., 10 (1797). 

 Trichia olivacea, Pers. Obs., i., 62 (1796), in part. 

 Trickia ovata, Pers. Obs., ii., 35 (1796) ; Schum. Saell., 1454 ; 



Fl. Dan., t. 1313, f. 1. 

 Trichia vulgaris, Pers. Obs., ii., 32 (1799). 

 Physarum contextum, Spr. Sys., ix., 20 (1817). 



Trichia verrucosa, Berk. 



Sporangia pyriform, brown or chestnut, shining, passing down- 

 wards into a long, slender stem, simple or botryoid, scattered, 

 springing from a thick, broadly effused Uypoihallus ; mass of 

 capillitium and spores ochraceous; threads of capillitium not 

 branched, cylindrical, 8 10 //. thick, with smooth, tapering tips 

 of variable length, and straight or curved, spirals close, thin, 

 not prominent ; spores globose, with narrow, raised fiat lands 

 combined into a few large, irregular, polygonal meshes, bands not 

 punctate, 14 16 JJL diameter. 



Trichia verrucosa, Berk., Flor. Tasm., p. 269 ; Mass., Rev. 

 Trich., p. 343, fig. 9. 



(Type in Herb. Berk., Kew, n. 10906.) 



On wood. Tasmania. 



Differs from T. chrysosperma and T. dictyospora in the scat- 

 tered sporangia springing from a stout hypothallus, and also 

 in the characters of the elaters and spores. From 2 3 mm. 

 high. Usually not more than one complete polygon is present 

 on a hemisphere of the spore. 



Trichia Kalbreyeri, Mass. 



Sporangia crowded, sessile, often irregular from mutual 

 pressure, pale yellow, smooth ; mass of capillitium and spores 

 pale primrose-yellow; threads of capillitium cylindrical, 9 10 p 

 thick, with short, smooth, tapering ends, spirals not prominent, 

 thin, close ; spores globose, with raised, narrow flat bands form- 

 ing an irregular, polygonal network, bands not punctate, 11 14 p 

 diameter. 



