Ckoiidrioderma . 'ill 



colourless, dehiscing irregularly, inner wall violet- grey ; threads 

 of capillitium slender, brownish-lilac or almost colourless, fre- 

 quently bifurcating and anastomosing, sometimes flexuous; 

 columella subglobose or depressed, reddish or almost colourless; 

 rugose, spores globose, brownish-lilac, minutely verruculose, 

 9 11 |* diameter. 



Ckondrioderma testaceum, Host., Mon., p. 179, figs. 135 136 ; 

 Schroeter, p. 135; Sacc., Syll., n. 1274; Cooke, Myx. Brit., 

 figs. 135, 136. 



JSxsicc. Fuckel, Fung. Rhen., 1467 ; Desm., Cr. Fr., Ser. I., 

 706 (as Diderma testaceum} ; Ellis and Everh., N. Amer. Fung., 

 2093. 



On mosses, leaves, twigs, &c. Sweden ; Uermany ; Finland ; 

 Hungary; United States. 



Varying from *5 1 mm. diameter; the colour of the spor- 

 angium bright brick-red, but it is sometimes much paler. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Eeticularia sphaeroidalis, Var. 2, Bull. Champ., p. 94, 1 446, 



f. 2, D (1791). 



Didymium testaceum, Schrad., p. 25, t. 5, f. 1, 2 (1897). 

 Diderma testaceum, Pers. Syn., p. 167 (1801). 

 Gionium testaceum, Spr. Syst., iv., p. 529. 



Chondrioderma sublateritium, Rost. t 



Densely gregarious, sessile on a broad base, but rarely deformed 

 by crowding, circular in outline, depressed, umlilicate above, pale 

 brick-red, polished ; inner wall lead-colour ; columella small, 

 flattened, reddish, capillitium forming a flaccid network, threads 

 thin, sometimes flexuous, with here and there small fusiform 

 swellings without lime ; spores globose, pale lilac-brown, minutely 

 verruculose, 9 11 /* diameter. 



Chondrioderma sublateritium, B. and Br., Journ. Linn. Soc., 

 vol. xiv., p. 82. 



(Type in Herb. Berk., n. 10728.) 



On leaves. Ceylon. 



