Trichia. 193 



tudinally wrinkled, filled with large, globose, subangular cells 

 which become smaller upwards and pass into normal spores; 

 elaters pyriform, simple or branched, 5 6 /* thick, ending in 

 long, smooth, tapering tips, spirals rather close, thin, not pro- 

 minent; spores globose, epispore, covered with a very fine, 

 irregular network, 10 12 /* diameter. 



Trichia fallax, Rost., Mon., p. 243, figs. 211, 221, 222, 233 

 236; Cke., Myx. Brit, p. 61, figs. 211, 222, 233236; Sacc., 

 SylL, vii., 1, n. 1493; Mass., Mon. Trich., p. 8, figs. 21 and 

 27 (the spores incorrectly represented as warted instead of being 

 delicately reticulated); Schrceter, p. Ill; Raunk., Myx. Dan., 

 p. 66, t. 4, f. 4. 



Exsicc. Fuckel, Fung. Rhen., 1435 ; Jack, Leiner u. Sitz., 

 420; Rab., Fung. Eur., 1666; Mong. and Nest., 284; Roum., 

 Fung. Sel. Gall, 42. 



On rotten wood. Britain (Bristol, Kew, King's Cliffe, 

 Norths ; Carlisle, Scarboi'o', Linlithgow, Glamis, N. B.) ; France ; 

 Germany ; Switzerland ; Denmark ; United States ; Cuba ; 

 Venezuela. 



Distinctly marked amongst the species with fusiform elaters 

 by the stem being filled with large cells, and the very delicately 

 and minutely reticulated spores. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Mucor capitulis pyriformis, Fl. Dan., t. 647,' f. 2 (1770). 



Mucor miniatus, Jacq. Misc., t. 299 (1778). 



Stemonitis Jlavcscens, Schrank., p. 19 (1792). 



Lycoperdon aggregation, Liljeb. Fl. Scan., 460 (1792). 



Lycoperdon pusillum; Hedw. Abh., t. 3, f. 2 (1793). 



Trichia fallax, Pers. Obs., iii., t. 4, 5 (1797); Nees, f. 113; 



Corda Ic., iv., 97; Eng. Fl., v., 319; Cooke, Hdbk., 1182. 

 Physarum pyriforme, Schum. Saell., 1448 (1803). 

 Trichia mrcscens, Schum. Saell., 1459 (1803). 

 Trichia cerina, Ditm., t. 25 (1817) ; Curr. Micr. Journ., v., 



p. 127; Cooke, Hdbk., No. 1184. 

 Trichia fuha, Purt. Mid. Fl, 1534 (1817). 

 Trichia clavata, Wigand, No. 3 (1863). 



