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. 1892 Excerpt: ...prominent and distant; spores globose, verruculose, yellow, 9--11 n diameter. Trichia purpuraseens, Nyl., in Sallsk. pro Faun, et Flor. Fenn. notis. Ny., Ser. 11., 2, p. 126; Mass., Rev. Trich., p. 332; Sacc, Syll., no. 1508; Grev., v., 18, p. 27 (1889); Karst., Myx. Fenn., iv., p. 137. On fir-wood, moss, &c Britain ...
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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. 1892 Excerpt: ...prominent and distant; spores globose, verruculose, yellow, 9--11 n diameter. Trichia purpuraseens, Nyl., in Sallsk. pro Faun, et Flor. Fenn. notis. Ny., Ser. 11., 2, p. 126; Mass., Rev. Trich., p. 332; Sacc, Syll., no. 1508; Grev., v., 18, p. 27 (1889); Karst., Myx. Fenn., iv., p. 137. On fir-wood, moss, &c Britain (Carlisle); Finland. Requires to be carefully distinguished from some forms of Trichia fragilis, to which species the present is closely allied. In T. purpuraseens the spirals are sharp-edged, in T. fragilis flattened. The inner surface of the sporangial wall is studded with amorphous, organic purple particles; the colouring matter is soluble in potassic or ammonic hydrate. N Elaters cylindrical. Spirals not spinulose. Trichia varia, Rost. (tigs. 169--172). Sporangia scattered or aggregated, stipitate, or sessile on a narrow or broad base, turbinate or subglobose, smooth, yellow, dirty ochraceous or tinged with olive; stem when present blackish; mass of capillitium and spores yellow; elaters cylindrical, 4--5 /x thick, spirals distant, prominent, more especially on the convex side when curved, rarely branched, tips smooth, tapering, straight or bent, 8--10 n long, sometimes shorter; the elaters are sometimes swollen at the commencement of the tapering tips; spores globose, minutely warted, 10--14 n diameter. Trichia varia, Rost., Mon., p. 251, figs. 191, 202, 208, 212, 218, 237; Cooke, Myx. Brit., p. 63, figs. 191, 202, 208, 212, 218, 237; Schroeter, p. 112; Sacc, Syll., vii., 1, no. 1497; Raunk., Myx. Dan., p. 65, t. 3, f. 14, t. 4, f. 3; Mass., Mon. Trich., p. 9, f. 17. Exsice.--Jack, Leiner u. Sitz., 419; Karst., Fung. Fenn., 288 and 699; Fuckel, Fung. Rhen., 1431 and 1433; Roum., Fung. Gall., 1101 and cent. xiv. 1315; Rab., ...
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