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Spores globose, yellow. Stem attenuated upwards, very 
slender where it gives off the peridium. 
A very elegant species, remarkable for its yellow flocci. 
* Craterium pedunculatum, Trent.—Drumm. n. 259. 
On decayed leaves. 
* Stemonitis fusca, Roth.—Drumm. n. 209, 272 (in part). 
* Arcyria incarnata, P.—Drumm. n. 282 (in part). 
64. Licea applanata, n. sp.; conglomerata, peridiis brevis- 
simis arcte connatis rufis; sporis magnis crocatis.— Drumm. 
n. 188. 
On dead sticks. 
Forming roundish patches which are scarlet when young, 
but of a bright liver brown when mature, consisting of mi- 
nute very short crowded peridia, invisible to the naked eye, 
which contain saffron-coloured spores, intermixed with a few 
filaments ; spores globose, much larger than in L. fragiformis 
and cylindrica. oe í 
* Cyathus vernicosus, Dec.—Drumm. n. 228. 
On rotten wood. 
64. Clathrus pusillus, n. sp.; pusillus, elongato-obovatus, 
columnis precipue ad apicem reticulum amplum efforman- 
tibus, (Tab. I, f. 6.).—Drumm. n. 176. 
On the ground. 
Volva nearly cylindrical or obovate 1-3 of an inch in dia- 
Meter; columns 14 inches or more high, wrinkled trans- 
versely, of a beautiful bright ruby red, springing from four 
to eight together from a point at the base, and forming by 
their juncture above a net with subpentagonal meshes, ex- 
tremely brittle and scarce able to support their own weight. 
Hymenium attached to the inner side of the columns and 
network through their whole extent, except occasionally at 
the base. Spores minute, oblongo-elliptic. 
This beautiful species resembles in many respects Colus 
hirundinaceus, Caval. and Sech. and goes very far to prove 
that their genus is not well founded, for there is no reason _ 
to think that any material difference would be presented by - 
the young plant. The specific difference consists in the 
