Pl.cell.aph. 9. GASTEROMYCEiE. 207. Lycogal. 569 
fi.fuligineum. Sporangium covered with a spongy crust. 
Lycoperdon Epidendrum fuligineum, Bull. Champ. 503. 
y. marginata. Sporangium blood-red, black at the base. 
B. Myrotheciade.®. Peridium thin, single or double, 
sessile, spread out, irregular, falling to pieces and vanishing; 
columella 0 ; flocks 0 ; sporidia in tufts, afterwards sepa- 
rating. — Sporangium at first liquid, afterwards solid. 
VII. 208. MYROTHECIUM. Tode. Slime-mould, 
Sporangium irregular, flattened, sessile ; peridium simple, 
brittle, branlike, at length vanishing ; sporidia very small, 
globular, at length conglutinated. 
Myrothecium inundatum . Inundated slime-mould . 
Sporangium snow-white, irregular, confluent; sporidia 
black-green. 
Myrothecium inundatum, Tode Meckl. 1,25. 
On rotten fungi ; autumn. 
VIII. 209. DICHOSPORIUM. Esenb. Douhle-mould. 
Sporangium flattened, hemispherical ; peridium membra- 
naceous, covered with a bed of granules ; sporidia at first 
fluid, then compact, conglutinated. 
Dichosporium aggregatum. Aggregated douhle-mould. 
Sporangia crowded; peridia brown; led of granules 
snow-white, shining; sporidia black. 
Spumaria physaroides, Persoon Syn. 103. 
Dichosporium aggregatum, Esenbeck Fungi , 2,23. 
On rotten branches of trees; autumn. 
IX. 210. LICE A. Link. Bare-mould. 
Sporangium nearly globular, or lengthened into a cylin- 
der; peridium thin, membranaceous, becoming cracked; 
sporidia crowded. 
1 . Licea strolilina. Cone hare-mould. 
Sporangia crowded, orbicular or elliptical, smooth, 
brown ; sporidia ovate, yellow. 
Licea strobilina, Alb. et Schwein. Fung. 2, 20. 
On rotten pine-cones. 
