40 A Monograph of tiff Mi/rogastres. 



Tuhdina nitidissima, Berk., Journ. Linn. Soc, v. 18, p. 387 

 (from examination of type); Licea rulifm-mis, B. and Curt, 

 (from exam, of type). 



Licca micro&perma, B. and C. (from exam, of type). 



Exsicc. — Syd., Myc. March., 1498; Cke., Brit. Fung., ed. ii., 

 528 ; Karst., Myc. Fenn., 697 ; Fekl., F. Rhen., 1470 ; Roum., 

 Fung. Gall, 3066 ; Ellis and Everh., N. A. Fung., ser. II. 2096. 



On wood. Forming compact cakes varying from half an inch 

 to a foot or more in diameter, varying from umber-brown to 

 chestnut, the surface granular with the convex apices of the 

 sporangia. When immature and pulpy, of a beautiful straw- 

 berry colour. Hypothallus spongy, resembling when thick the 

 sterile base of a Lycopcrdon. Dr. Rex considers that two 

 distinct species are confounded under the above name. 



Britain (Apethorpe, Powerscourt, Brandon, Scarboro', Car- 

 lisle, Glamis, N. B.) ; Germany ; France ; Sweden ; Finland ; 

 Hungary; Belgium; United States; India; Ceylon; Australia. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 

 Tululifcra cercdum, Fl. Dan., t. 659, f. 2 (1777). 

 Tubidifcra arachnoidea, Jacq., Misc., t. 15 (1778). 

 Mucor iuhulosus, Retz. 

 Stemonitis ferruginea, Batsch, f. 175 (1786). 

 Sphacrocarpus cylindrims, Bull., t. 470, f. 3 (1791). 

 Sphacrocarpnis fragiformis, Bull., t. 384 ? (1791). 

 Tuhiferaferruginosa, Gmel., Syst. 1472 (1791). 

 Tiibifera cylindrica, Gmel, Syst. 1472 (1791). 

 TuUf era fragiformis, Gmel, Syst. 1472 (1791). 

 Trichia fragifm-mis, With., Arr., iii. 480 (1792). 

 T'lbhidifcra coccinea, Trent., p. 243 (1797). 

 Licca tuhulina, Schrad., N. G., 16 (1797). 

 Licca clavata, Schrad., N. G., 18 (1797). 

 Tuhdina fragiformis, Pers., Disp., p. 11 (1797); Pers., Syn., 



t. 4, f. 3, 4. 

 Tnlndimtfallax, Pers., Obs., ii. 28 (1799). 

 Tuhulina fragiformis, a. papiUata, /3. clavata, y. coiiica, b. 



coccinea, e. opcrculcda: Pers., Obs., ii. 29. 



