10 CONIOCARPINEE [CHENOTHECA 
Gray Nat. Arr. i. p. 484 (1821).  Cyphelium trichiale var. 
ferrugineum Mudd Man, p. 269, t. 4, f. 106 (1861). 
Exsicc. Johns. n. 45; Mudd n. 249. 
Differs from the species in the character of the thallus and in the 
subsessile apothecia. It is often sterile, but when fertile the 
apothecia are numerous, and sometimes two or more become con- 
fluent. 
Hab, On old palings, rarely on decorticated oaks in shady lowland 
and upland tracts.—Distr. Pretty general, and common where it 
occurs, throughout England, chiefly in the south.—B. M. Horsham, 
Sussex; near Reigate, and Redland Woods, near Dorking, Surrey ; 
near Millhill, Middlesex; Hadleigh Wood, Danbury, Gosfield Hall, 
and Walthamstow, Essex; Oakley Park, Cirencester, Gloucester- 
shire; Gopsall Wood and Twycross, Leicestershire ; Packington Park 
and Bagley Park, Worcestershire; Moor Park and Hay Park, near 
Ludlow, Shropshire; Suffolk; Framlingham, near Norwich, Norfolk; 
Brantsdale and Hoggarts Wood, Ingleby, Cleveland, Yorkshire. 
3. CONIOCYBE Ach. in Vet. Acad. Handl. 1816, p, 283; 
emend. Nyl. in Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherb. iii. p. 168 (1855). 
Pie) 
Thallus effuse, thin, crustaceous or pulverulent or almost 
obsolete. Apothecia usually with a rather long slender stalk, 
the capitulum globose, pulverulent with the protruded ‘sporal 
mass ; paraphyses slender; spores spherical, simple, colourless, 
yellowish or pale-brownish. Spermogones with simple sterigmata 
and oblong or ellipsoid spermatia. 
The genus is characterized by the pale- or brightly-coloured 
apothecia and spores. 
‘1. C. furfuracea Ach. in Vet. Acad. Handl. 1816, p. 288.— 
Thallus powdery, pulverulent, yellowish-green or sulphur-coloured. 
Apothecia small or moderate in size, similar in colour to the 
thallus or rarely greyish-pruinose; the stalk,elongate, slender, 
pulverulent ; capitulum globose, the sporal mass yellow or pale 
brownish ; paraphyses becoming branched, spores colourless or 
pale yellow, minute, 2°5-3 1 in diameter.—Mudd Man. p. 262, 
t. 4, f. 108 (excl. var. sulphurella); Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 14 
(excl. var. sulphurella) ; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 46; ed. 3, p. 45. 
Mucor furfuraceus L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, p. 1655 (1763).  Clathrus 
virescens Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 2, p.632(1778). Trichia furfuracea 
With. Arr. ed. 3, iv. p. 398 (1796). Calicium furfuraceum Pers. 
Tent. Disp. Meth. Fung. p. 60 (1797); Turn. & Borr. Lich. Brit. 
p. 159; Hook. in Sm. Engl. Fl. v. p. 142. CC. capitellatum Ach. 
Meth. p. 98 (1803). Lichen capitatus Ach. Lich. Suec. Prodr. 
p- 86 (1798); Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1539. Strongylium capitellatum 
8. F. Gray Nat. Arr. i. p. 485 (1821). Beomyces furfuraceus 
Tayl. in Mackay Fl. Hib. ii. p. 78 (1836). 
Exsicc. Bohl. n. 62; Cromb. n. 10; Johns. n. 207; Leight. 
n, 226, 
