Stemo7iitu. 85 



larger spores. The spores sometimes sliow indistinct iudicatious 

 of warting under 1200 diameters. 



Stemonitis ferruginea, Rost, (figs. 160, 161). 



Densely gregarious, on a well-developed hypothallus; spor- 

 angium cylindrical, obtuse, wall thin, dark brown, evanescent; 

 stem slender, blackish, equal to or shorter than sporangium; 

 columella reaching to the apex of the sporangium, blackish ; 

 capillitium dense, threads dark brown, tapering, combined to 

 form an irregular network, the periidlieral meshes cthaut equal- 

 ling the s2Jores in diameter; spores in the mass bright hroivn, 

 pale brown by transmitted light, globose, smooth, 6 — 9 /x 

 diameter. 



Stemonitis ferruginea, Rost., Mon., p. 196, figs. 31 — 89, 41 — 44, 

 and 50 ; Cke., Myx. Brit., p. 47, figs. 31—39, 41—44, and 50 ; 

 Sacc, SylL, vii., n. 1365. 



Exsicc. — Rav., Fung. Car., 75 (typical) ; Rav., Fung. Amer., 

 788. 



On rotten wood, &c. Britain (Lyndhurst, Highgate, Scarboro', 

 Carlisle, Linlithgow) ; Europe ; United States ; Mexico ; S. 

 Domingo; Cuba; Rangoon; Ceylon; Queensland; New Zealand. 



Usually densely gregarious, 1 — 1"5 cm. high. Readily dis- 

 tinguished by the small peripheral meshes of the capillitium 

 and the bright brown colour of the spores in the mass. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Stemonitis typhina, Willd., Ber., 408 (1787). 



Clathrus midus, Bolt., t. 93, f. 1 (1789). 



Trichia axifera. Bull, t. 447, f 1 (1791). 



Stemonitis fasculata, Pers,, Syn., 187 (1801). 



Stemonitis violacea, Schum., Saell., 1491 (1803). 



Stemonitis fasciculata, DC, Fl. Fr., ii., 256 (1805). 



Stemonitis ferruginea, Ehr., Syl. Ber., f. vi. a b (1818) ; Cooke, 



Hdbk., No. 1156. 

 Stemonitis decijncns, Nees. Nov. Act. Leop., xvi. 95 (1821). 

 Stemonitis hctcros^Jota, Oudem. Ned. Kr. Arch., i., 167 (1872). 



