CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Trichia. 
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Stem black, shining-, extending through the capsules up to its top. Capsule 
white, egg-oblong; rusty brown with age, and nearly cylindrical, the 
fibres of the coat opening so as to suffer the seeds to escape between 
them. It varies in a longer or a shorter stem. The whole plant is from 
three to five lines high. Bull. 
(Naked Trichia. Clathrus nuchts. Linn. Bolt. Huds. Relh. T. nuda. 
Sowerby. Purt. T. axifera. Bull. T. pertusus. Batsch. Stemonitis 
fasciculata. Pers. Hook. Grew E.) On decayed wood, particularly in 
hollow stumps. May—OcL 
Var. 2. Stem broadest at the base. Capsule always cylindrical. 
Bull. 477. 2. 
Rusty brown. Capsule perforated by the stem. Bulliard. 
( T. typhoides. Bull. E.) On the stump of a fir, and on a decayed leaf of a 
fir, in Coomb Grove, near Bath. Mr. Stackhouse. 
Tric. dedunda'ta. Stem short; capsule long, egg-shaped, not per-* 
forated by the stem : cupped at the base. 
( Grev. Scot. Crypt. 130. E.)— Bull. 502.1—( Sowerby 49. E.)— Mich. 94. 
1. Clathraides—Bolt. 93. 2—Jacq. Misc. i. 6— Batsch 177— (Purt. 24. 2.. 
E.)— Hall. Enum. 1. 6, at p. 21. Hist. 48. 6. atp. 116. 
Stem brown, very slender, about one-twentieth of an inch high. 
Woolly top three-tenths of an inch high ; colour of red brick, composed of 
woolly fibres, set with small knobs, throwing out dust when touched, 
j Dust the colour of Vermillion; when very highly magnified appearing 
composed of egg-shaped substances. The stem supports the woolly 
substance, which resembles a roll of carded wool, 'but does not extend 
through it. Wholly red, except the apex, which is brownish. Capsule 
at first globular, oblong when older. Jacquin. Description of Batsch at 
p. 265. very good. (At its first appearance soft, roundish, and of a milk- 
white colour. Purt. 
Cinnabar-coloured Trichia. T. denudata. Sowerby. Purt. T. china - 
haris. Bull. Embolus crocatus. Batsch. Arcyria punicea. Pers. Hook. 
Grev. E.) Clathrus denudatus. Linn. Bolt. Huds. Relh. On decayed 
wood in damp places. Near Bungay. Mr. Woodward. On the stump 
of a tree, rookery, Edgbaston. June—Oct. 
Tric. ru'fa. Stem short: capsule globular, cut round; red. 
Bull. 368. 1— Schmid. 24. i. to viii. 
The capsule opens horizontally about its middle, like a snuff-box, or like 
the seed-vessel of Anagallis; the upper and under lid remaining entire; 
therefore it does not agree with the genus Lycoperdon which opens only 
at the top, nor does it well accord with the Trichia, the capsules of which 
expand so as to permit the seeds to escape between the fibres, though in 
some species the lower part suffers no such separation of its fibres, more 
nearly resembling the plant in question. 
(Red Trichia. E.) Lycoperdon rufum. Dicks. 25. 1. On decayed wood. 
July—Aug. 
Tric. ful/va. Stem very short, smooth; capsule tawny, globular • 
wool tawny. 
Bolt. 93. 3— Bull. 387. 2— Hall. Enum. 1. 4. at p. 21. Hist. 48. 4. at ii. 
p. 116. 
