Octavlania 



HYMENOGASTRACE^E 



487 



twigs and leaves. Oct. Diam. \\ in. Changing to turquoise-blue and 

 black where bruised. Commonly attacked by a bright orange mould, 

 Sepedoniwm chrysosperiiium. 



Fig 140. A, B, Octaviania astcrospcrma Vitt., entire at different ages, and in section. 

 Natural size, c, basidium and spores. X 500. 



2100. 0. Stephens!! Tul. (after H. O. Stephens) a b c. 



Irregularly globose or nodular-oblong, usually irregular in shape, 

 base rugoso-plicate, cribrose, furnished with branched fibrous 

 root-like growths. Pe. continuous, pale red to rufous, clouded 

 darker. Gl. white then pale salmon, cells small, pale sienna. 



Odour disagreeable like 1280. About one-quarter of the plant is usually seen 

 above ground, but often wholly superficial, covered with dead leaves, etc. 

 Woods under lime-trees vntHa.Nostoc. Aug. -Dec. Diam. i Jin. Exuding 

 a white aromatic milky juice. 



2101. 0. eompaeta Tul. (from the compact substance) a b c. 

 Irregularly subglobose, minutely cottony. Pe. continuous or 



slightly granular, white to ochreous-white. GL salmon-white, 

 cells pale salmon-buff. 



Gregarious. Wholly or half-buried, involved in rooting masses of white Myc. 

 Amongst roots, grass, earth and mycelium. Oct. -Nov. Diam. f in. 



CXXIV. MELANOGASTER Corda. 

 (From the black interior ; Gr. melas, black, gasfer, the belly.) 



Pcr'uiium without a distinct base, branched fibres springing from 

 every part of its surface. Cells of gleba more or less rounded, large 

 in the centre, smaller towards the periphery, walls of cells .thick, 



