Tuhulina. 41 



lieiicularia multiccqmda, Sow,, t. 179 (1790). 



Tuhidina cylindrica, D, C, FJ. F,, 674 (1805). 



Tuhdina fragifera, Poir., Ency., viii. No. 3 (1808). 



Zicea fragiformis,'Nees,f. 102 (1816); Eng. Fl., v. p. 821; 



Cooke, Hdbk., 1194; Fung. Brit., ii. 528. 

 Bermodium fallax, Nees, f. 103 (1816). 

 Licca cylindrica, Fr., S. Myc, iii. 195 (1829) ; Eng. FL, v. 391 ; 



Cooke, Hdbk., No. 1193. 

 Licea iricolor, Zoll., in Flora (1847), p. 300. 

 Tuhulina concjlohata, Preuss., Linnaea, 140 (1851). 



Tuhulina effusa, Mass. 



ActJiali'itm naked, sporangia seated on a firm, common hypo- 

 tliallus, irregular from mutual pressure, in a single stratum or 

 superposed, walls very thin, lustrous, grown together ; free apices 

 of spoQ^angia slightly convex, giving the surface of the aethalium a 

 granular appearance ; mass of spores ochraceous-umher ; spores 

 globose, yellowish-brown, very indistinctly vcrruculose, 6 — 8 ix 

 diameter. 



Lindhladia effusa, Rost., Men., p. 223; Schroct., p. 103; Cooke, 

 Myx. Brit, p. 55; Sacc, Syll., no. 1395. 



On the ground and on wood. Britain (Leicester, Epping, 

 Scarboro', Aboyne, Forres, Linlithgow); Germany; Sweden; 

 France ; Bohemia. 



Often forming compact, flattened cakes extending for three 

 or four inches, sometimes much smaller; superficially closely 

 resembling Tuhulina cylindrica, but the mass of spores with 

 a yellower tinge, and the present species also differs in the 

 shorter sporangia, which are not so uniform in their arrange- 

 ment as in T. cylindrica. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 

 Licca effusa, Ehr., Sylv., p. 26, f. i. (1818). 

 Aethalium melaenum, Chev. Byss., iii. (1837). 

 Lindhladia tuhulina, Fr., S. V. S., 449 (1849). 

 Acihiliiiiii alrum, Preuss., Linnaea, 141 (1851). 



