408 OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUNGOLOGY. 



then turbid, and at length indurated and persistent from the 

 conglomeration of the spores. 

 1. stercorea, Tode. On dung-. 



325. ENDODROMIA, B. 



Vesicle very delicate, perforated by the stem, filled with 

 delicate, branched, radiating threads, and globose spores, with 

 a nucleus endowed with active motion. 



1. vitrea, B. ; Hook. Jonrn. I.e. p. 79, icith n J'kj- On sticks, in 

 woods. 



320. SPORODINIA, Lk. 

 Stem dichotomously branched. Vesicles solitary, terminal, 

 at length splitting horizontally. Columella large. Spores 

 simi)lc, growing on the columella. 

 1. dichotoma, Cd. On decaying Fungi. 



327. ACROSTALAGMUS, Cd. 

 Flocci branched. Branches vcrticillate. Vesicles terminal, 

 pierced by the threads, from the tips of which the spores are 

 produced within the cells. 



1. cinnabarinus, Cd. On decaying plants. VerticiUiiini Udentinm is a 

 form of this with naked spores. Artolrogus, Mont., is the secon- 

 dary fruit of Peronospora. 



328. SYZYGITES, Ehb. 



Threads branched aljove. Vesicles of separate branches, 

 conjugating, and forming a distinct sporangium. 

 ] . mrgalocarpus, Eltb. On decaying Aynrics. 



329. ENDOGONE, Lk. 



Ilypogaeous. Flocci collected into a glolwsc, spongy mass. 



