CALICIEI. 
CONIOCYBE. | 99 
In the type of the apothecia this has the same relation to Calicium that 
Biatora has to Eulecidea, It differs from Calicium in the pulverulent 
globose capitulum and in the constantly spherical form of the spores, 
although, as already observed, it closely approaches subgen. Allodium. 
1. C. furfuracea Ach. Vet. Ak. 
Handi. 1816, p. 288.—Thallus 
leproso-pulverulent, greenish-yel- 
low or sulphur-coloured. Apo- 
thecia small or moderate, conco- 
lorous, or rarely greyish-pruinose ; 
stipes elongated, slender, sul- 
phureo-pulverulent; capitulum 
globose, sporal mass yellow or 
pale-umbrine; spores 0,0025-30 
mm. in diameter; paraphyses at 
length branched.—Mudd, Man. 
p. 262, t. iv. f. 108; Cromb. 
Lich. Brit. p. 14; Leight. Lich. 
FI. p. 46, ed. 3, p. 45.— Calicium 
furfuraceum Turn. & Borr. Lich. 
Br. p. 159; Sm. Eng. Fi. v. 
p- 142. Baomyces furfuraceus 
Tayl. in Mack. Fl. Hib. ii. p. 78. 
Tricia furfuracea, With. Arr. 
ed. 3, iv. p. 398. Mucor furfu- 
Fig. 26. 
raceus Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3 (1764) 
p- 1655. 9 Strongylium capitella- 
tum Gray, Nat. Arr. i. p. 485. 
Lichen capitatus Sm. Eng. Bot. 
t. 1539.—Brit. HKas.: Leight. 
n. 225; Cromb. n. 10; Bohl. 
Coniocybe furfuracea Ach.—a. Apo- 
tbecium, x30. 0. Vertical section 
of the capitulum, x30. ¢. Theca 
and paraphysis, x350. d. Spores, 
x 500. . Vertical section of a sper- 
mogone, X30. //. Sterigmata and gy 
spermatia, < 500. 
n. 62. 
The thallus, which is more or less effuse, and internally has oblongo- 
cylindrical gonidimia, occasionally becomes nearly evanescent. The sti- 
pites are very weak, and consequently more or less flexuose; while in 
old age they are denudate and become brown or blackish The apothecia 
when present (for the thallus is very frequently infertile) are numerous, 
scattered, or crowded. Our fig. (b) shows the brown axis of the stipes 
ascending into the cupula, left white in the figure, and the pale brownish 
pulvinate subcolumelliform hypothecium. The spermogones are apt to 
be overlooked, being nearly concolorous with the thallus. 
Hab. On the roots of decayed trees and on dead twigs, occasionally on 
the ground and decayed mosses, rarely on rocks in shady eee places.— 
Distr. General throughout England, rare in N. Wales, 8. and Central 
Scotland, rare in E. Ireland (near Belfast).—B. M.: Near Bury, Suffolk ; 
Walthamstow, Essex; Esher, Surrey; Lyndhurst, New Forest, and 
Blackwater, Hants; near Shanklin, Isle of Wight; near Malvern Wells 
and Alfrick, Worcestershire; Twycross, Leicestershire ; South Wing- 
field, Derbyshire ; Oswestry and Church Stretton, Shropshire ; near Bar- 
mouth, Merionethshire ; Peel, Isle of Man; Brantedale,Yorkshize; Teesdale, 
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