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rounded or irregularly branched or sinuous, minute ochraceous 

 patches of lime ; capillitium well developed, extending uniformly 

 throughout the aethalium; nodes rather large, more or less 

 elliptical, furnished with irregularly branched arms, filled with 

 yellowish granules of lime, internodes thiu, irregularly anasto- 

 mosing ; spores dingy lilac, globose, smooth, or sometimes with 

 indications of minute warts, 7 10 ju. diameter. 



Fuligo ochracea, Peck, 31st Report of State Mus., N. York, 

 p. 56 ; Sacc., Syll., vil, 1, n. 1231. 



Licea ochracea, Peck. 



On various living and dead plants. United States; Cuba; 

 Venezuela. 



Aethalia reaching up to 1 cm. diameter, usually smaller. 

 Very close to Fuligo varians, if indeed distinct. The present 

 species is in Berkeley's Herbarium from Cuba and Venezuela, 

 marked " Aethalium pulchrum, B. and C.," but I am not aware 

 of any published description. 



Fuligo simulans, Karst. 



Very similar to ecorticate forms of Fuligo varians, but the 

 spores are darker, blackish-violet or almost black, and larger, 

 9 16 ju, generally 10 p. diameter. 



Fuligo simulans, Karsten, Myc. Fenn., part IV., p. 108 ; Sacc., 

 Syll., vii., 1, n. 1230. 



Yellow. On leaves of Vaccinium vitis-idaea, either unequally 

 effused or surrounding the living stems and twigs. Finland. 



Raciborski says in Hedwigia, 1887, p. Ill, that the present 

 species is the same as Fuligo varians, but he does not state that 

 the examination of an authentic specimen has enabled him to 

 arrive at that conclusion, hence the statement must be accepted 

 as an opinion only. 



Fuligo tatrica, Racib. 



Aethalium and capillitium very similar to Fuligo varians, 

 spores obscure violet, minutely warted, 8 10 p diameter. 



