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/ About an inch in diameter, stemless, yellowish, marked with minute 

 brown specks, the remains of the outer coat, but by no means furfu- 

 raceous. Capillitlum and spores yellow ; spores '-^-5^ of an inch in di- 

 ameter, often furnished with a minute peduncle. 



Allied to the last, but differing in the nature of the outer peridium, 



the pedicellate spores, etc. 



* L. ptidllum^ Batscb. 



Hab. On the ground. Eastern Nepal. (Dr. Hooker.) 

 The specimens differ from the two preceding in their flocculent, not 

 scaly or areolate coat. The spores are of the same size as iu those 

 species. In Z. microspermum they do not exceed -gaVo' 



* Scleroderma Geaster^ Fr. 



Hab. On clay-banks. Khasia, at Nunklow, 4-5000 feet. July. (Dr. 



Hooker.) 



460. -S'. nitidum, n. s. ; peridio ovato apice irregulariter dehiscente ; 

 epidermide in squamas polygonas depressas tenuissimas rupto ; stipite 

 IfBvi subtomentoso deorsum incrassato rigido, in radices paucas validaa 



fisso. 



(D 



Peridium regularly ovate, \\ inch thick, obtuse, but narrowed above ; 

 the cuticle broken up into flat, polygonal, darker area3, bursting at the 

 apex. Stem 1 inch high, 5 Unes thick, solid, firm, even, somewhat 

 downy, divided below into two or three stout solid roots, which give 

 forth abundant mycelioid threads. Mass of spores pale earthy-oUve, 

 with a very few yellowish veins, granulated, 7-5V0— 35V0 ^^ ^"^ ^^'^^ ^"^ 

 diameter. There is also a smaller form with a shorter stem. 



Allied to S. Lycoperdoides, Schwein., having, like that, the habit of 

 Tulostoma, but a larger species. The stem is quite* even above the 

 strong roots, which are very peculiar. 



Zeit. 1854, p. 



* Mitremyces JungJiuJinii, Schlecht. et MuU. m iiot. 



401, cum ic. 



Hab. On the ground. Sikkim, at Chola, 6000-8000 feet. East 



Nepal. (Dr. Hooker.) Bhotan, Mr. Nuttal. 



The only difference which I find between the. Khasia and Sumatra 

 specimens is, that the former are more warty. They grow in Uttle 

 tufls. The outer integument cracks off without forming a distmct cap, 

 as in M, australis and some other species. The spores are globose and 

 granulated, about ^^-^ of an inch in diameter. 



* 



Diderma contextum, Pcra. 



