ChondvioiJcnna . 211 



colunrh-Hii, dehiscing irregularly, inner wall violet- r/ri\i/ ; threads 

 of capillitium slender, brownish-lilac or almost colourless, fre- 

 quently bifurcating and anastomosing, sometimes flcxuous; 

 columella sibhglohose or dcjn'esscd, reddish or almost colourless; 

 rugose, spores globose, brownish-lilac, minutely vcrruculose, 

 9 — 11 fi diameter. 



Ghondrioilcrma testaceum, Host., Mon., p. 179, figs. 135 — 136 ; 

 Schroeter, p. 135; Sacc, Syll., n. 1274; Cooke, Myx. Brit., 

 figs. 135, 136. 



JExsicc. — Fuckel, Fung. Rhen., 14G7 ; Dcsm., Cr. Fr., Scr. I., 

 706 (as Diderma testaceum) ; Ellis and Everh., N. Amer. Fung., 

 2093. 



On mosses, leaves, twigs, &c. Sweden ; Germany ; Finland ; 

 Hungary; United States. 



Varying from 'o — 1 mm. diameter; the colour of the spor- 

 angium bright brick-red, but it is sometimes much paler. 



(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Bcticularia spJiaeroidalis, Var. 2, Bull. Champ., p. 94, t. 446, 



f. 2, D (1791). 

 Didymium testaceiim, Schrad., p. 25, t. 5, f. 1, 2 (1897). 

 Diderma testaceum, Pers. Syn., p. 167 (1801). 

 Gionium testaceum, Spr. Syst., iv., p. 529. 



Chondrioderma sublateritium, Rost. 



Densely gregarious, sessile on a broad base, but rarely deformed 

 by crowding, circular in outline, depressed, umlilieate ahote, X)cde 

 Irich-red, jyolishcd ; inner wall lead-colour ; columella small, 

 Jlattened, reddish, capillitium forming a flaccid network, threads 

 thin, sometimes flexuous, with here and there small fusiform 

 swellings without lime ; spores globose, pale lilac-brown, minutely 

 vcrruculose, 9 — 11 fx diameter. 



Chondrioderma suhlateritimi, B. and Br., Journ. Linn. Soc, 

 vol. xiv., p. 82. 



(Type in Herb. Berk., n. 10728.) 



On leaves. Ceylon. 



