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about that date. In his Observationes Mycologice (1796) he gives 
auoted ; M. Aspergillus has a figure of Schrank quoted (Sammlung 
naturhistor. und physical. Aufsitze, Niirnberg, p. 113, t. 1 (1796) 
quoted; this I have not seen); M. flavidus is regarded as being 
represented by t. 52, fig. 2, in Schmidel’s Ic. pl. Manip. (1793), 
where it appears under the name “Byssus, stipite ramoso- 
racemato.” The slight differences mentioned in the diagnoses— 
e.g. the ultimate colour and shape of the sporangium—are of no 
specific importance. 
Persoon appears to have given still another name to the fungus 
nt. i. p. : 
and Aspergillus maximus in Ehrenberg’s Sylve, p. 24 (1818). 
I ; : 
the non-sexual stage. The “ perfect” stage was discovered by Ehren- 
berg in 1820, and named Syzygites megalocarpus (Syzygites, eine 
ll. rfo . Freunde, 
ed: Link afterwards stated this to be Syzygites megalocarpus Ehrenb., but the 
; ce does not appear to bear this out. See also Fr. Syst. Mycol, iii, 
