T rich id. 193 



tiulinally wrinkled, filled with large, globose, suhcmgalar cells 

 wliieh become smaller icjnvards and pass into normal spores; 

 elaters pyriform, simple or branched, 5 — 6 fx thick, ending in 

 long, smooth, tapering tips, spirals rather close, thin, not pro- 

 minent; spores globose, epispore, covered with a very fine, 

 irregular network, 10 — 12 n, diameter. 



Trichia fallax, Rost., Mon., p. 243, figs. 211, 221, 222, 233— 

 236; Cke., Myx. Brit., p. 61, figs. 211, 222, 233—236; Sacc, 

 Syll., vii., 1, n. 1493 ; Mass., Mon. Trich., p. 8, figs. 21 and 

 27 (the spores incorrectly represented as warted instead of being 

 delicately reticulated); Schroeter, p. Ill; Raunk., Myx. Dan., 

 p. m, t. 4, f. 4. 



Exsicc. — Fuckel, Fung. Rhen., 1435 ; Jack, Leiner u. Sitz., 

 420; Rab., Fung. Eur., 1666; Mong. and Nest., 284; Roum., 

 Fung. Sel. Gall, 42. 



On rotten wood. Britain (Bristol, Kew, King's Cliffe, 

 Norths ; Carlisle, Scarboro', Linlithgow, Glamis, N. B.) ; France ; 

 Germany ; Switzerland ; Denmark ; United States ; Cuba ; 

 Venezuela. 



Distinctly marked amongst the species with fusiform elaters 

 by the stem being filled with large cells, and the very delicately 

 and minutely reticulated spores. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 

 Mucor capitulis pyriformis, Fl. Dan., t. 647, f. 2 (1770). 

 Mucor miniatus, Jacq. Misc., t. 290 (1778). 

 Stemonitis fiavcscens, Schrank., p. 19 (1792). 

 Lycoperdon aggregatum, Liljeb. Fl. Scan., 460 (1792). 

 Lycoperdon p)usilhim, Hedw. Abh., t. 3, f. 2 (1793). 

 Trichia fallax, Pers. Obs., iii., t. 4, 5 (1797); Nees, f. 113; 



Corda Ic, iv., 97; Eng. Fl., v., 319; Cooke, Hdbk., 1182. 

 Fhysamm pyriforme, Schum. Saell., 1448 (1803). 

 Trichia virescens, Schum. Saell., 1459 (1803). 

 Trichia cerina, Ditm., t. 25 (1817); Curr. Micr. Journ., v., 



p. 127; Cooke, Hdbk., No. 1184. 

 Trichia ficlva, Purt. Mid. Fl., 1534 (1817). 

 Trichia clavata, Wigaud, No. 3 (1S63). 



