Brefeldia. Rostajinskid. 91 



bodies are situated at the points where adjacent sporangia 

 meet. 



Disirih. Europe. Species 1. 



Brefeldia maxima, Rest, (figs. 254 — 256). 



Aethalium large, pulvinate, surflice blackish with purple or 

 olive tints, rough with irregular wart-like nodules, seated on 

 a firm, silvery-looking hypothallus; capillitium dense, threads 

 irregularly anastomosing, dark coloured, with numerous inter- 

 calary clusters of vesicles ; spores in the mass blackish with 

 a purple tinge, globose, minutely warted, 13 — 17 \x diameter. 



Brefeldia maxima, Rost., Mon., p. 213, figs. 60, 65, 66, 69, 

 70; Cke., Myx. Brit., p. 53, figs. 60, 65, 66, 69, 70; Sacc, Syll., 

 vii., no. 1377 ; Raunk., Myx. Dan., p. 96, t. 5, f 13. 



Licea pcrrexttans, Berk., Gard. Cliron., 1848, p. 451. 



JExsicc.—CkQ., Fung. Brit, Ed. II., n. 518. 



On fallen trunks, &c. Britain (Rolleston, Kew) ; Germany. 



Forming large pulvinate patches of irregular form varying 

 from 1 — 6 inches across. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Lycoperdon epidcndrum, Sow., 400, f 2, 3 (1809). 



Dcrmodiitm inquinans, Fr. Gast., 9 (1817). 



Bdicidaria maxima, Fr. S. M., iii., 85 (1829); Eng. FI., v., 



308; Cooke, Hdbk., No. 1097; Fungi Britt., ii., 518. 

 Lycoperdon echiniformis, Sow., t. 400, f 1. 

 Zicca pcrreptaiis, Berk., Gard. Chron. (1848), 451 ; Ann. Nat. 



Hist., No. 392; Cooke, Hdbk., No. 1196. 



ROSTAFINSKIA, Speg. 



Sporangia flexuous, intricately combined to form aethalia of 

 varying magnitude, seated on a fioccoso-paj^yraceous liypothalhis ; 

 columellas absent; capillitium well-develo])ed, not furnished 

 with granules of lime, persistent, naked ; spores globose or 

 irregular, coloured, present only in the central stratum of the 

 aethalium. 



