DECADES OF FUNGI. 509 
Spores globose, coarsely echinulate, clay-coloured. 
Some parts of the flocci have at tolerably regular intervals 
little fascicles of bristles, the nature of which 1 cannot de- 
termine. I do not find them on every part of the capillitium, 
. nor after the veil is ruptured. 
This genus resembles externally Mitremyces, but not only 
is the covering of the peridium viscoso-cartilaginous and 
reflected in the form of a veil, instead of falling off like a 
calyptra, but the capillitium exactly fills the cavity, the outer 
portion consisting of a barren stratum of coloured flocci, and 
the spores, instead of being elliptic, are globose and coarsely 
echinulate.* The inner peridium is clearly represented by the 
barren flocci, which form a dense lining to the cavity. 
I have named the genus after my friend, Mrs. Hussey, 
whose talents well deserve such a distinction, 
À curious fungus is figured by Buxbaum, Cent. 5, tab. 29, 
fig. 1, under the name of ** Lycopodium vesicarium stellatum 
pediculo donatum," which has somewhat the character of the 
present genus, having the stem and peridium of a Tulostoma, 
with the volva of a Geaster. 
Tas. XVII, XVIII. Fig. 3. a. b. Husseia i is; nat. size. 
4. Mature plant with the veil reflected. 
b. Younger plant, still covered with the veil. 
c. orifice :—magnified. 
Tas. XIX. Fig. 1. a. Portion of outer barren i-fioedi; from © 
which proceed the fertile paler threads and spores : magni- 
fied. 
a’. Portion of capillitium where it joins the peridium. 
b. Texture of the veil :—magnified. 
€. Ditto from another part :—ditto. 
d. Texture of peridium :—ditto. | 
*Hexagona polygramma, Mont. Cuba, p. 379. Peziza lim- 
bosa, Houttuyn in Linn. Virement ien vol. mis vea 105. 
fig. 5. 
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those of Husseia and Schweinitz species, being broadly elliptic and - dE 
‘Tough, with transparent granules, but not echinulate.— Bot. Tet — ee 
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