DESCRIPTIONS OF 
Stachylidium candidum, mihi, 
Plate V. fig. 6. 
S.Jila ramosa erecta remote aiiiculata Candida sparm 
sjporis globosis. 
Hab. Ad lignum mortuum, autumno. 
Spreading over rotten sticks and dead wood for an inch 
or more together, but in somewhat a scattered manner. 
Under the microscope it is a beautiful object. The threads, 
>vhich vary considerably in diameter, are remotely jointed, 
and attenuated at the base. The upper half is regularly 
yerticillate, the whorls being formed by four short and ob- 
tuse ramuli; one of these ramuli sometimes becomes a 
branch, and is then whorled in the same manner. The 
sporules are small, globular, and collected at the whorls. 
BoTUYTis, Link, 
Flocci erectly hasi scepius impleoci ramosi, ramulis corym^ 
hosis, circum apices sporas globosas colligentibus. 
Botrytis diffusa, Albert, et Schw, 
Plate V. fig. 7» 
B. Candida ramxysa, ramis huge lateque diffusis ramuUs 
pndique in racemos dispositis racemuligeris, 
Albert, et Schw. Conspect. Fung. p. 36^. 
Hab. In caulibus semiputridis plantarum, autumnp. 
An incomparably elegant and beautiful plant, and much 
larger than any of its congeners. It forms large spots, of 
two or more inches in length, of the purest white imagin- 
able, which, when examined, consist of a number of separ- 
ate tufts, two or three lines in height. The threads are 
