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1691 . Mucor cervinoleucus. Berk. FI. Tasm. n., 282. 
Flocci simple, erect, white below, ochraceous above ; sporangia 
globose, tawny ; spores ovoid or subcyinbiform, 10 y long. 
On dung. Tasmania. 
Genus 2. PHYCOMYCES. Kunze. 
Sporangiferous hyphse erect, not branched, continuous, shining, 
now and then very long; sporangia sphseroid, or pear-shaped, 
brown, very thin, broken when mature, and forming a ring at the 
base of the columella. Spores ovoid or sphairoid, hyaline. Zygos- 
poric branches arcuate and spiuose, spines rigid, dichotomous. 
1692 . Phycomyces nitens. Kunze Myk. lift, n., 113. 
Bacc. Syll. 696. 
Sporangiferous hyphse decumbent, shining, brass-colour, con- 
tinuous, 10-20 c.m. long, disposed in an effused, mycelial stratum, 
with thick branches, 3-4 together rising from the mycelium, 
sporangia globose, many-spored, turning black and opaque, 
columella at first sphseroid, then cylindrical ; spores ellipsoid, 
elongated, obtuse, 20-30 x 12-15 y, pale olive. 
On fatty substances. Broadribb River. (Fig. 248.) 
Genus 3. SPINELLUS. Van Tiegh. 
Filaments of mycelium at first hyaline, then brownish above, 
branched. Branches perpendicular, solitary, or verticcllate, bearing 
numerous acute spines, at first hyaline, then brown, sporangiferous 
hyphse erect, simple, hyaline, then coloured, spores coloured. 
Sexual branches equal, approximate, then divergent, at length 
recurved, 
1693 . Spinellus gigasporus. Cke. <j- Mass. Qrev. xviii., 26. 
Fertile threads simple, decumbent, shining olive, continuous 
(40-45 y thick). Sporangia subglobose (220-250 y) ; columella 
cylindrical, rounded at the apex. Spores elongated, ellipsoid, olive 
(50-60x13-15 y). Threads of zygospores flexuous, thinner, 
darker, septate ; zygospore compressedly globose, rugulose, dark 
brown (70-80x55-60 y). Arms arcuate, even, not spinulose. 
On decaying Agarics. Victoria. (Fig. 250.) 
Genus 4. CIRCINELLA. Tieg. <> Mon. 
Sporangiferous byphte erect, branched; sporangia globose, poly- 
sporous on recurved peduncles, with a columella, membrane not 
diffluent at the centre, spores sphajroid, hyaline, or coloured. 
1694 . Circinella umbellata. Tieg. Mon. Ann. Sci. Nat. 
1873, t. 21,/. 18-23.= Helicostylum morelue. B. J \ Br. 
Sporangiferous hyphse erect, 5-6 c.m. high, simple or branched, 
the apex acute or digitate, rectangularly bent, with 2-20 circinating 
branchlets at the angles, septate at the base, brown. Sporangia 
sphseroid, becoming bluish ; columella cylindrically conical, large ; 
spores globose, even, bluish, 6-8 y diam. 
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