144 A Monograph of the Myxoijaatve^. 



Arcyria punicca, Pers. Disp., p. 10 (1797); Eng. Fl., v., 318; 



Cooke, Hdbk., No. 1170 ; Fung. Brit., ii., 520. 

 TricJda 2yu7jmrca, Schura. Saell., 1472 (1803). 

 Arcyria rufa, Sebum. Saell., 148G (1803). 

 Arcyria melanocqiliala, Solium. Saell., 1484 (1803). 

 Arcyria conjugata, Sebum. Saell., 1485 (1803), 

 Arcyria cincta, Sebum. Saell., 1480 (1803). 

 Arcyria cylinclrica, Sebum. Saell., 1486 (1803). 

 Trichia cinnaharis, DC. Fl. Fr., No. 688 (1805). 

 Arcyria f'lisca, Fr. Gast., p. 17 (1818). 

 Arcyria vcrnicosa, Rost., Mon. Supp., p. 36. 



Arcyria punicea. Var. cribroides, Raunk. 



Tlie inner mesbes equal and of ordinary widtb ; on tbe 

 surfaee of tbe capillitium, on tbe contrary, groups of very small 

 and single laj^ers sueeeed eaeb otber alternately. 



Raunk., Myx. Dan., p. 108, t. 3, f. 12. 



Jutland. 



Arcyria ferruginea, Rost. (figs. 250 — 253). 



Sporangia globose or ovate, sometimes deformed, stipitate, 

 dull vermilion or rusty-red, sometimes pale reddisb-pink ; stem 

 tbin, length variable, usually short, filled witb large cells ; mass 

 of capillitium and spores brick-red, brownish, sometimes oebra- 

 ceous ; capillitium becoming elastically protruded, threads com- 

 bined to form a dense, irregular network, viorc or less acutely 

 triangttlar, one side with imrallel iirojccting ridges, the two others 

 vnth a fine, irregular network ; spores globose, smooth, 9 — 1 1 fx 

 diameter. 



Arcyria ferruginea, Rost., Mon., p. 280, fig. 194; Cke., Myx. 

 Brit., p. 73, fig. 194 ; Sacc., Syll, vii., 1, n. 1470. 



Arcyria intricata, Rost., Mon. Suppl, p. 72. 



Exsicc. — Fuckel, Fung. Rben., n. 1444. 



On rotten wood. Britain (Hampstead, Carlisle, Scarboro') ; 

 Europe; United States ; Ceylon. 



Distinguisbed amongst tbe red species of Arcyria by tbe 



