458 Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 



they are so puzzling that I seek in vain for any character by 

 which to distinguish or recognise them. 



The Helix splendida of the South of France presents six pretty 

 well-marked varieties. 1st. With broad black bands^ called the 

 variety of Proven9e. 2nd. With five narrow bands, which is ge- 

 nerally considered as the type. 3rd. With the two inferior (4th 

 and 5th) bands only perfect. 4th. With the fourth band only. 

 5th. With one white band only, — that which usually accom- 

 panies the 4th dark band, which in this variety is corneous 

 and translucid. 6th. Without bands, but slightly flammulated. 

 The third of these I found near the Pont du Gard, but all the 

 rest are common in the neighbourhood of Montpellier. 



The H. ne?noralis is no longer found living near Montpellier, 

 nor within fifty miles, but I discovered a considerable number 

 of them imbedded in the alluvium behind the fortress, which, 

 from their perfect condition, had evidently inhabited that place 

 at some former period. 



Nice, April 18th, 1854. 



XLIII. — Notices of British Fungi. By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 

 ' M.A., F.L.S., and C. E. Broome, Esq. 



[Continued from p. 407.] 



730. Lycoperdon atro'purpureum, Vitt. Mon. p. 42. On ex- 

 posed pastures. Leigh Down, near Bristol, C. E. Broome. 



Peridium perfectly sessile or strongly stipitate, depressed or 

 globose, greyish, when half-grown a little cracked in the centre 

 into polygonal warts, the margin sprinkled with small stellate 

 warts which give it a furfuraceous appearance ; when mature 

 dark brown with pale warts, opening irregularly; sometimes there 

 are a few strong warts at the very base. Spores globose, '00025- 

 •0003 inch in diameter, strongly echinulate, capillitium purplish- 

 brown, but sometimes the whole plant has a yellowish-olive 

 tinge and the capillitium is similarly coloured. 



In every stage of growth this is easily distinguished from the 

 common puff-balls which it greatly resembles by its large echi- 

 nulate spores. 



731. Badhamia 7iitens, Berk, in Tr. Linn. Soc. xxi. p. 153. 

 On decayed oak branches. Feb. 21, 1851, East Bergholt, 

 Suffolk, Rev. Dr. Badham; Twycross, Rev. A. Bloxam. 



732. B. pallida, Berk. I. c. On decayed oak branches. 

 March 1, 1851, East Bergholt, Rev. Dr. Badham. 



733. B. fulvella, Berk. /. c. p. 154. On dead wood. East 

 Bergholt, Rev. Dr. Badham. 



