MyxomycetecC, Stoinoiiitareye, Stenionitis. 397 



iiilur SL! iii oinnes partes coniiiiigentibus et rete iion (lensiim ef- 

 Ibrniaiitibus; particulis retis siiperficialis e raaculis paucis majo- 

 ribus minoribusque coinpositis, e rainulis extremis .ircuatim inter 

 se conjunctis prKsertim in peridii parte inferio^-e efformatis ; spo- 

 ris 9,9-12 •j.. latis, diiute violaceis, verruculosis. 



Hab. in agro Cracoviensi Polonia?. — Var. obovata Uac. 1. c: 

 peridiis obovatis, 0,5-0,75 mm. latis. Cum typo. — Var. oblonga 

 Rac. 1. c. : peridiis oblongis 0,75-1 mm. longis, 0,3-05 ram. latis. 

 [ Cum typo. 



STEMONITIS Gled. Metli. p. 140, Kost. Mon. p. 193 (Etym. steinon 

 stamen). — Peridia gregaria, breviter stipitata, cylindracea. Sti- 

 pites setacei, breves, fistulosi, in columellam longam porrecti. Ca- 

 pillitium a columella radians, laxe reticulatum, rainis floccorum 

 ultimis reticuluin superficiale cuin pariete peridii parallelum ef- 

 ficientibus. 



1. Stemonitis flisca Roth. in Mag. f. Botan. p. 20 et Flor. Germ. I, i362 

 p. 548, Ehr. Ber. f. 5, Grev. S. C. FI. t. 170, Corda Ic. II. f. 87, 

 Eng. FI. V, 317, Cooke Hdbk. 1155, fig. 132, Fung. Hritt. U. 522, 

 Rost. Mon. p. 193, f. 40, Cooke Myx. p. 46, f. 40, Schroet. Krypt. 



FI. Schles. Pilze p. 107, Lijcopet^don capite cylindracea Rupp, 

 Jenn. 304, Clathroidasirum obscurum Mich. t. 94, f. 1, Embo- 

 lus nigerrim\',s Hall. t 1, f. 1, Clathrus nicdus Linn. Fl. Suec. 

 1263, Stemonitis I. Gled Meth. 141, Embolus Hall 2137, t. 48, 

 f. I, Tubulifera cremor Fl. Dan. t. 659, fig. 1, Tremelhi tf/phina 

 Willd. Fl. Ber. 420, Mucor araneosus Jacq. Misc. t. 15, Trichia 

 nuda With. Arr. IV', 477, Stemonitis fasciculata Pers. Syn. 187, 

 Stemonids iyphoides Auct. — Peridiis c<iespitosis vel gregariis, 

 stipitatis, hypothallo fusco-atro insidentibus, cylindraceis, obtusis, 

 fuscis, fugacissimis; columella apicera peridii fere attingente; sti- 

 pite setaceo, filiformi, nigro, nitente, longo; masculis superficia- 

 libus capillitii minutis, sponi minoribus vei paullo latioribus; spo- 

 ris levibus, 6-9 a. diam., intense vel subatro-fuscis sub. microsc. 

 dilute fuscescentibus. 



Hab. ad truncos putridos in tota Europa et America, in insula 

 Ceylon, Tasmania, Nova Zelandia. 



2. Stemonitis dictyospora Rost. Mon. p. 195. — Peridiis cylindricis, vm 

 obtusis, hypothallo beiie evoluto insidentibus ; columella verticem 

 peridii attingente; hypothallo, stipitibus, columella, capillitio et 

 innumeris sporis, violaceo-nigris; superficiali reticulo capillitii, 



