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 TAB. CCLIX.

With. ed. 3. v. 4. 398.

sticks and stumps in very wet situations commonly afford this plant, growing in different directions. In the latter state, when the white skinny powdery deciduous covering (which may possibly be the polleniferous part) is dissolved, the inner entangled fibres, containing the feeds, are disclosed, forming a dark-brown head, occasionally having some of the skinny coat left at the bottom, which makes it accord with Clathrus recutitus Linn. Is it not in this latter state C. ater of Hudson, and Mucor cancellatus of Batsch? TAB. CCLX.

Bull. t. 502. fig. 3. With. ed. 3. v. 4. 398.

distinction of this species rests solely perhaps on colour. I have found Trichia denudata approaching the buff colour by degrees, even to half an individual plant, at the same time more than usually lengthened and reclining. The plant here figured grew under a balcony in great perfection, and so full of fine powder, or feed, as almost to conceal the form of each individual, especially in the advanced specimens.