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Lycoperdon radiatum, Linn, sp., 1654 (1753). 

 Didymium stellare, Schrad., t. 5, f. 3-4 (1797). 

 Diderma stellare, Pers. Syn., 164 (1801). 



Diderma umbilicatum, Pers. Sjn., 165 (1801) ; Eng. Fl., v. 310; 

 Cooke Hdbk., No. 1106. 



Diderma crassipes, Schnm. Saell., 1421 (1803). 

 Reticularia umbilicata, Poir. Ency. 

 Didymium geaster, lank. Diss., ii., 4-2 (1809). 

 Leangium stellare, Link. Diss., ii., 42 (1809). 

 Cionimn stellare, Spr. Sys., iv., 529 (1827). 

 Cionium umbilicatum, Spr. Sys., iv.. 529 (1827). 

 Leangium umbilicatum, Rabh. Fl. Crypt., 285 (1844), 

 Didymium complanatum, Fckl. Sym. Myc., 341 (1869). 



45. Choiidrioderma floriforme. (L'//H.) 



Sporangia globose, stipitate, with an elongated stem, very much 

 crowded on a strongly -developed hypothallus, bright-brown, split- 

 ting when mature in a stellate manner in irregular divisions cut to 

 the base; columella at the first ovate, stipitate, bright-brown; 

 capillitium of violet threads combined into a net, provided with 

 numerous irregular thickenings ; spores dull-violet, rarely spinu- 

 lose, '01--0125 mm.Rtfki. Hon., 184. 



On decaying trunks, &c. 



Splicer ocarpus floriformis, Bull., t. 371 (1791). 

 Stemonitis floriformiS) Gmel. Sys., 1469 (1791). 

 Ly coper don floriforme, With. AIT., iv., 379 (1792). 

 Reticularia floriformis, Poir. Ency. 

 Didymium floriforme, Schrad., N. G., 25 (1797). 

 Diderma floriforme, Pers. Syn., 164(1801), Fr. S. M., iii., p. 99 j 

 Berk. Eng. Fl., v., 310; Cooke Hdbk., No. 1105. 

 Diderma spurium, Schum. Saell., 1422, (1803 J. 

 Leangium floriforme, Link. Diss., t. iii. (1809). 

 Leangium lepidotnm, Ditm., t. 21 (1817). 

 Cionium lepidotum, Spr. Sys. iv., 529 (1827). 

 Cionium floriforme, Spr. Sys. iv., 529 (1827). 

 Diderma lepidotum, Fr. S. M., iii., 100 (1829). 



46. Chondriodezma (Erstedtii. Etfki. 



Sporangia, together with the stern pyriform, brownish-white, 

 wholly without columella ; when mature splitting stellately into 

 lour or six irregular lacinia?, cut to the base ; decorated with glis- 

 tening glassy warts ; capillitium of violet threads combined into 

 a close net ; spores bright-violet, delicate, rarely spinulose, -0116- 

 0132 mm.Rtfki. Mon., 184. (Figs. 154, 157.) 



Chondrioderma (Erstedtii, Rtfki. ~Mon,, p. 184 ; Berk. & Br. Ann. 

 Nat. Hist., 1593 ; Grevillea, v., p. 12. 



