Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of Cryptogamic Plants, Belonging Chiefly to the Order Fungi Volume 1; And Intended to Serve as a Continuation of English Botany (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 Excerpt: ...De Candolle. A very abundant Uredo in dry heathy pastures, and offering nothing peculiar for observation. Fig. 1. Plants, not. size. Fig. 2. & 3. Diito, more or less magnified. Fig. 4. Sporules. VOL. I. N ASPERGILLUS Penicillatus. Single-tufted Aspergillus. Clais Amd Ohdir CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, l.inn--Nat. Oro. BYSSOIDEjS, Grev.--MUCEDINES, Link--FUNGI, Jim. Ac. GENERIC CHARACTER. Minutus, caspitosus vel sparsus. Plantula Jilamentosce simplices wJ ramosts septatce, apicibus plerumque clavatis, et captiulis sporidianim instruct is. Minute, tufted or scattered. Filamentous, jointed, branched or simple plants, the apex mostly clavate, and bearing little heads of sporidia. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Aspergillus penicillatus; cinereus, sparsus, gregarius, simplex; capitula sjioridiarum laxa, subnutantia; sparidiis moniliformibus. A. grey, scattered, gregarious, simple; heads of sporidia lax, somewhat drooping; sporidia moniliform. Aspergillus penicillatus, Grev. /'/. Edin. ined. Hab. On damp grasses in the herbarium. Dark grey, scattered, distinct, regularly gregarious, but not in the least tufted, of a line high, the stem formed of 2-5 long transparent joints. Sporidia forming long beaded filaments, a number of which are clustered into a somewhat drooping head. A very beautiful object under the microscope, and probably of not unfrequent occurrence. The genus was first established by Micheli, in Nova Plantarum Genera, p. 212; and has been continued by Link, Nees, and other mycologists. The sporidia are not always arranged in a beaded manner: the exceptions, however, are few, and they do not affect the generic character. Fig. 1. Planti, natural site. Fig. 2. The same magnified. VOL. I. ERINEUM Avhkum. Golden Erineum. Clam -- 0-Dim CRYPTOGAMIA FPNGI, /.,&...