354 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Reticularia. 
Bull. 476. 1—( Grev. Scot. Crypt. 106. E.)— Bolt. 133. 2— Mich. 95. 1, Lyco¬ 
gala — Glcd. 6. Mucor. f. 1. a. 
Brown and somewhat pear-shaped when young; white and egg-shaped 
when old. From half an inch to more than an inch long, and half as much 
in diameter. Bolton. (The quantity of purplish-brown globose sporules, 
intermixed with a few filaments, is so great, that the rest of the plant 
may be regarded as merely a receptacle. Grev. E.) 
(Puff- ball-like Reticularia. E.) Mucor Lycogala. Bolt. Lycoperdon 
fuscurrii Huds. On decayed trunks of trees. Sept.—May. 
Var. 1. Silvery grey changing to brown; powdery and brown within. 
Bull. 446. 4 —(Sowerby 272. E.)— Scliceff. 195. 3. 
It rents open indiscriminately. In the larger specimens, and in its more 
advanced stages of growth, the fibres become sufficiently evident. I 
have always found it upon cloven oak rails. It is generally egg-shaped, 
but flatted on the side next the rail, to which it adheres by a large sur¬ 
face, without any evident root. From the size of a large pea to that of a 
Spanish chesnut; brown, or reddish brown like a chesnut, but this latter 
colour only appears, where it loses its outer skin, which is silvery grey. 
The surface is smooth and shining, the whole substance very light, and 
the coats very thin and brittle. The powder is of a reddish brown 
colour, and so extremely fine, that the most powerful microscope is 
necessary to show that its component particles are egg-shaped. When 
rubbed upon the hand it prevents its being wet though immersed in 
water. 
(Silvery Reticularia. Lycogala argentea. Hook. Pers. Grev. Ly coper-- 
don. Bull. Sowerby. Purt. Mucor carneus. SchaefF. E.l This extra¬ 
ordinary plant grows on decayed stumps of wood, rails, &c. and at first 
oozes out a white froth, which, in time, becomes more dense, varying 
greatly in shape, size, and colour. April. Dec. 
Ret. sinuc/sa. White, oblong, waved, pointed. 
Bull. 446. 3 —Sowerby 6 —Batsch 170. 
This consists of numerous oblong white streaks, raised above the surface of 
the bark on which they grow. They are about one-third of an inch long, 
scarcely the twentieth of an inch broad. They open on the upper side at 
a kind of seam which extends the whole length of the plant, and are filled 
with a downy matter. 
(Wavy Reticularia. L. complanatum. Batsch. E.) Discovered and 
drawn by Mr. Stackhouse, who found it on the green bark of the willow, 
near to the bottom, where it lies in or near to the water. Mr. Sowerby 
found it in woods and under damp hedges, on various kinds of herbage. 
Ret. hydnqPdes. White, cobweb-like, (in small tufts. E.) 
{Grev. Scot. Crypt. 168. E.) 
When magnified it appears beset with crooked spicula tapering to a sharp 
point (resembling when magnified particles of ice. Purt. Sporidia glist¬ 
ening. Grev. E.) 
(Frosted Reticularia. Lsaria mucida. Pers. Ceratium hydnoides. Grev. 
E.) Found by Mr. Stackhouse overspreading a leaf of Veronica cha - 
mcedrys. 
