SEVEN NEW SCOTTISH FUNGI, 
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Peniciliium candidum, Link, 
Plate V. %. 5. 
P.Jila sterilia decumbentia implexa^Jtla fructlfera erecta 
simplicia subsparsa capitulis sporarum albis. 
Peniciliium caiididum, Link, in Berl, Mag, 3, 17. 
Gtray's Nat. Arr. v. i. p. 554^ 
Hab. In caulibus subputridis plantarum, autumno. 
This species forms whitish spots of half to one inch long, 
by several lines wide, upon the semiputrid stems of herba^ 
ceous plants. On these spots the little pure-white heads are 
very visible to the naked eye, dispersed in a scattered 
manner over the surface. The threads are simple, erect, 
and remotely jointed, dividing at the summit into two; 
and then subdividing into a number of short attenuated 
ramuli, covered with a profusion of sporules. Sporules 
round and minute. The barren threads have the same 
character, except being decumbent, simple to the very sum- 
mit, and producing no sporules. 
This species was found on the decaying stem of Arctkim 
Lappa near Edinburgh » 
Stachylidium, Link, 
Flocci adscendentes basi implexi ; ramulis superne verii- 
cillatis, abbrematis obtusis. Spora ghbosa ad vertkillos 
congests. 
* Gray's Natural Arrangement of British Plants, 2 vols. 8vo. 1821,— a 
most extraordinary work, of great industry, but of less judgment, in which 
Jungermannia alone is split into 19 genera. 
