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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Mucor. 
(2) Stemless. 
Tric. fragifor'mis. Stemless; in clusters: capsules* cylindrical, 
tawny red. 
(Bull. 384. E.)— Batsch 172. 
About one-eighth of an inch high., and half as much in diameter, sitting in 
clusters upon a common membranaceous base of the same colour ; open¬ 
ing at the top and discharging its seeds, which, together with the fibres 
which connect them, are of a deep tawny saffron colour. Batsch. Rose 
red when young. Bull. 
{Strawberry Trichia. Wasp s-nest Trichia. T. fragiformis. Relh. Lyco - 
perdon vesparium. Batsch. Sphoerocarpus fragiformis. Bull. Purt. 
In the latter stages of these plants, after the seeds are dispersed, that which 
remains of the capsule is not unlike a wasp’s nest. Purt. hence the appro¬ 
priate specific name of Batsch. E.) 
Mr. Relhan informs me that he has found it in Madingley wood, and Wood 
Ditton in Cambridgeshire. 
On decayed wood, and decaying trunks of trees. Spring. On the stump of 
an hazel, growing in considerable quantities. Powick near Worcester. 
Mr. Stackhouse. 
Tric. turbina'ta. Stemless; turban-shaped: wool yellowish. Huds. 
632. 8. 
(Sowerhy 85. E.)— Mich. 94. 2. Clathroides — Gled. 4. Stemonit. f. 1.3.7 
and 4— Hall. Enum. 1. 7. at p. 21. Hist. 48. 7. at iii. jo. 116— Bolt. 94. 3. 
FI. Dan. 655. 1— Scop. Ann. iv. 2. 11— Batsch 173. 
(Turban-shaped Trichia. E.) Lycoperdon hiteum. Jacq. in Syst. Veg. 
p. 982. Relh. n. 1103. L. cpiphyllum. Lightf. 1069. T. turbinata. Sower- 
by. Purt. Relh. L.favogineum. Batsch. T. ovata. Pers. Hook. C/a- 
thrus turbinatus. Bolt. Huds. E.) On decayed wood. Near Bungay. Mr. 
Woodward. Aug.—April. 
Tric. fusco'ater. Brown black; stemless: seeds yellow. 
(Sowerby 258. E.)— Bull. 417. 5. 
(At first sight resembling the eggs of some insect: minute, globose, dirty 
yellow, separating horizontally into two equal part. Pers. 
Brown-black Trichia. Spcerocarpus sessilis. Sorwerby. Bull. Purt. 
Licea circumscissa. Pers. Hook. E.) Found by Dr. Sibthorpe on decayed 
wood in the plantations of Shotover, Oxfordshire. Oct. 
MU'COR. # Seeds naked, or in a transparent capsule, at the 
end of a stem. (Pedicle simple or branched, 
tubular, articulated. Grev. E.) 
M. aquo'sus. Stem long, pellucid: capsule a watery globule: seed 
roundish. 
Pet. Gaz. 51. 7. 
(A term signifying mould, or mouldiness. E.) 
