342 A Monograph of the JMjixogastres. 



Beticularia vapmnria, Chev., Fl. Par., i., 342 (1827). 

 Aethcdium violaceum, Spr. Sys., iv,, 533 (1827). 

 Aethalmm candidum, Sclileclit., in Spr. Sys., iv., 533. 

 Aethalium scpticum, Fr., S. M., iii., 93 (1829), Cooke, Hdbk., 



n. 1101, a. Jlavum, h. cinnamomeum, c. rufum, d. violaceum. 

 Fuligo carnosa, Duby., Bot. Gall., ii., 863 (1830). 

 Fulicjo liorUnsis, Duby., Bot. Gall., ii., 863 (1830). 

 Aethalium rufum, Wallr., Fl. Germ., 2097 (1833). 

 Aethaliiim septicum, b. vaporarium, Rabh., Fl. Germ., 2133 



(1844). 

 Aethalium ferrincola, Schwz. Am., 2372 (1834). 

 Rctimdaria ri(fa, Schwz. Am., 2377 (1834). 

 Aethalium rufum, Alexandr., t. 11, f. 6 — 11 (1872). 

 Aethalium vapiuraQ-imn, Fr., Berk., in Gard. Chron. (1860), p. 



409; Cooke, Hdbk., n. 1102. 



Fuligo stercoriformis, Mass. 



Aethalium resembling the dung of some young animal, size 

 and shape variable, most frequently sausage-shaped, unequally 

 gibbous, attached to the substratum throughout its length by a 

 broad base ; covered with a very friable, seceding, white cortex 

 abounding in lime; capillitium greyish-white, tubes with numerous 

 swollen portions containing granules of lime, combined to form 

 a netAvork ; hypotliallus rudimentary ; spores ellip)Soid, hroivn, 

 densely covered toith minute warts, 10"5 — 18'5 -f- 9'3 — 14*5 ju. 



Aethaliopsis steoxoriformis, Zopf, p. 150, fig. 26, vii. ; Sacc, 

 SylL, vii., 1, n. 1232. 



On rotten leaves. Germany. 



Zopf founded the genus Aethaliopsis on the mistaken sup- 

 position that the ellipsoid spores distinguished it at once amongst 

 the Lithodermeae. 



Fuligo ochi-acea, Peck. 



Sporangia variously interwoven to form a small aethalium, 

 springing from a delicate, whitish hypothallus, seated on a broad 

 or narrow base ; common cortex delicate, covered at first with 



