which, forming under the cuticle, ejects in astonishing abundance an orange gummy-looking matter in long sportive tendrils: but what is most curious is, that the sphærules are black, and included, 1, 2, 3, or more, in a black spongy substance, having also a black substance within, from whence the tendrils shoot. The sphærules are not always to be found in either of these species.
TAB. CCCLXXVIII.
Fig. 1, 2 & 4. MUCOR trichoides.
This is often one of the first species of vegetation on substances that imbibe superfluous moisture, such as decayed vegetables, &c. Some grew on paper, some on oak, and some on Lichens. The head is oblong, and pointed. It varies from white to green, and is often very minute.
Fig. 3. M. fuscipes.
FOUND on a piece of very wet oak. It had a dark brown stipes and an oval head. We are not sure whether or not it be a variety of the last.
Fig. 5, 6 &: 7. M. Mucedo.
THIS varies extremely in size, depending upon the situation in which it grows. In very most cellars on cat's dung, &c. it often grows very large, composed of tufts of very fine white pellucid filaments, from the 10th of an inch to three or four inches long, with round, pellucid watery heads, occasionally producing white powder. It often grows large on paste. The feeds, if I may so call them, sometimes fall about the stipes, and are always discharged by sudden drying.
Fig. 8. M. fulvus.
THIS may be a variety of the last; it is mostly found dwarfish; the head larger in proportion, and in its latter state the feeds often placed in a radiated form.
