336 Dr. Greville's Account of a Collection of 



Genus 2. Spouotriciium. {CoUarium.) 



1 . S. bacUum, thallo cœspitoso, badio ; filis tenuissimis, confer- 

 voideis, implexis ; sporidiis concoloribus, ovalibus ; acer- 

 vulis distiiictis, coacervatis. 



On moist wood in a state of decay. 



'I'he aspect of this little plant is very much that of Conferva 

 arachnoidea. The threads are jointed, and two or three lines in 

 lenoth. It belono's to the genus Collarium of Link in Mas-az. fier 

 Gesell. 'Naturfor. Frcunde zu Berlin ; but that genus has been 

 subsequently reunited by him to Sporotrichum, under which it 

 is also found in Persoon's Mycologia. Vide Link in Juhrlinvk 

 der Gewdchskiinde, i. p. l63. 



GASTROMYCI 



(Part of the Linnœan Order Fungi). 



Genus 3. Cyatuus. 

 1. C. Crucibulum. Fers. Spi. Fung. p. 238. Grcv. Cr. Fl. t. 34. 



Genus 4 . S c l e r ot i u .m . 

 1. S. gi/rosunt, parvum, nigrum, erumpens, plano-convexum, 



sulcis gyrosis rugosum, intus albidum. Tab. IlL f. 1. 

 On dead leaves of some monocotyledonous plant. 



Entire plant not more than one or two lines in breadth, more 

 or less circular, sometimes ring-like, from the centre being 

 unoccupied. The surface is very similar to the shields of some 

 species of Gyrophora. 



FUNGL 



