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rminded or irregidarly hranched or sinuous, minute ochraceous 

 imtchcs of lime ; capillitium well developed, extending uniformly 

 throughout the aethalium; nodes rather large, more or less 

 elliptical, furnished with irregularly hranched arms, filled with 

 yellowish gramdes of lime, internodes thin, irregularly anasto- 

 mosing ; spores dingy lilac, globose, smooth, or sometimes with 

 indications of minute warts, 7 — 10 ix diameter. 



Fuligo ochracca, Peck, 31st Report of State Mus., N. York, 

 p. 56; Sacc, Syll., vii., 1, n. 1231. 



Zicea ochracca, Peck. 



On various living and dead plants. United States; Cuba; 

 Venezuela. 



Aethalia reaching up to 1 cm. diameter, usually smaller. 

 Very close to Fidigo varians, if indeed distinct. The present 

 species is in Berkeley's Herbarium from Cuba and Venezuela, 

 marked " Aethalium indchrum, B. and C," but I am not aware 

 of any published description. 



Fuligo simulans, Karst. 



Very similar to' ecorticate forms of Fuligo varians, but the 

 spores are darker, blackish-violet or almost black, and larger, 

 9 — 16 ju., generally 10 /x diameter. 



Fuligo simulans, Karsten, Myc. Fenn., part IV., p. 108 ; Sacc, 

 Syll., vii., 1, n. 1230. 



Yellow. On leaves of Vaccininm vitis-idaca, either unequally 

 effused or surrounding the living stems and twigs. Finland. 



Raciborski says in Hedwigia, 1887, p. Ill, that the present 

 species is the same as Fuligo varians, but he does not state that 

 the examination of an authentic specimen has enabled him to 

 arrive at that conclusion, hence the statement must be accepted 

 as an opinion only. 



Fuligo tatrica, Racib. 



Aethalium and capillitium very similar to Fuligo varians, 

 spures obscure violet, minutely warted, 8 — 10 // diameter. 



