on the surface; stipe solid, single, or united in
clusters of five or more together, dark-colored, red or purple-brown,
opaque; capillitium orange, ochraceous yellow, or even reddish brown,
the threads simple or rarely branched, long-fusiform, about 4 mu thick at
the centre, tapering gradually to the long accuminate, apiculate tips,
spirals three or four, even, smooth, rather closely wound and traceable
almost to the apex; spores concolorous in mass, under the lens pale,
globose, more or less closely minutely warted but not reticulate, 10-12
mu.

A species remarkable for its variations in color. More commonly the
unopened sporangia are opaque brown, by reason of a dense outer wall,
and more frequently simple, or if compound, show but two or three
united. The reddish variety, vinous or scarlet-black in color, is
remarkably fasciate. Some clusters show twenty or more stipitate,
globose sporangia, conjoined by their distinct but coherent stems. In
such fruitings the sporangia are small, .5 mm. In the brown sporangia
the dehiscence, as stated, is often definitely prefigured; in the
multiple, red, obscurely, if at all. As presented in collections from
the eastern United States, the two forms might well be disjoined.
Persoon, however, discussed both together and so they remain.

Saccardo includes _Craterium floriforme_ Schw. here.

By the descriptions of the earlier authors it is impossible to
distinguish this from _H. vesparium_ on the one hand, and _T. decipiens_
on the other. _T. botrytis_ Pers., _l. c._, gives us first secure
foothold. Fries discards Persoon's appellation as unsuitable and
improperly applied, and takes up what he deems an older specific
designation, _T. pyriformis_ Leers. But Rostafinski is certain Leers had
_A. punicea_ in mind, and that other early names are equally
ill-applied. Rostafinski rejects Persoon's names simply as not pertinent
in every case. Massee examined the specimens of Leveille, and finds them
belonging here; but see our No. 14, _seq._

Not common, but with wide range. Maine, Massachusetts, New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado; Toronto.

11. TRICHIA SUBFUSCA _Rex._

1890. _Trichia subfusca_ Rex, _Proc. Phil. Acad._, p. 192.

Sporangia gregarious, scattered, dull tawny brown, shading to dark brown
below, about 1/2 mm. in diameter, globose, stipitate; stipe short, about
equal to the sporangium, stout, brown or brownish black, rugulose,
solid; capillitial mass bright straw c