1294 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 
Trichia favoginea (Batsch) Pers. 
1786. Ly coper don favogineum Batsch, Eleuch, Fung., p. 257, 
Pig. 173, a, b. 
1794. Trichia favoginea (Batsch) Pers., Rom. N. Mag. Bot., I. t 
p. 90. 
Macbride: “Sporangia closely crowded, cylindric or pris¬ 
matic by mutual pressure, obovoid, sessile, olivaceous yellow, 
smooth and shining; the peridium thin, opening above somewhat 
stellately, persistent; capillitium golden yellow, escaping en¬ 
tirely from the peridia, and forming large woolly masses above 
them, the threads long, even, beautifully sculptured, bearing 
spirals about four, usually smooth and connected by light longi¬ 
tudinal ridges, the apices short tapering, about equal to the 
width of the elater, 6-7/a; spores concolorous, by transmitted 
light paler, but still bright yellow, the epispore net conspicuous, 
the bands narrow and high, not pitted nor fragmentary, in form 
irregularly globose, 12-14/a. Plasmodium yellow. A common 
and beautiful species recognizable at sight, after the peridia 
break, by the aggregate capillitium constantly in evidence above 
the abandoned vasiform peridia.’’ 
Lister calls the capillitium and spore-mass orange yellow and 
the sporangium-wall membranous, minutely thickened with ir- 
regulair striae. He says a stalk is rarely present. He finds the 
elaters to be 7-8/a thick, smooth or with scattered spines, and 
the points of the elaters 3-8/a long. The spore diameter he gives 
as 13-15/a, including the border which is 1.6 to 2/a wide. He 
further says: “Between T. affinis and T. persimilis, and be¬ 
tween T. persimilis and T. scabra , intermediate forms frequently 
occur where it is ‘often difficult to decide under which head to 
place them.” 
Massee adopts the name T. chrysosperma Rost. He calls the 
color yellow or ochraceous cinnamon. He finds sometimes a few 
scattered spinules on the elaters. He terms this “a rare species 
characterized by the deep narrow ridges forming a network on 
the epispore and the surface of the bands not being punctate, 
and by the narrow raised lines running parallel to the long axis 
of the elaters.” 
Saccardo gives the spore diameter as 10/x, or including projec¬ 
tions, 12-15/a. 
