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OF AUSTRALIAN FUNGI— co7itinued. 



Habitat. 



S.A. 



N.S.W. 



General Characters. 



Bed. Mag. VII. ii (1816). 



Ground 



Ground 



Ground, 



saud 

 Ground 



amons'st 



Underground 

 Sandy soil 

 Ground ... 



Somewhat globose. Outer peridium thin, persistent; inner per 



whitish, cartilaginous. 

 Globose, depressed, white. Outer peridium fibrous ; inner per 



pale, fragile. 

 Somewhat globose, greyish green. Outer peridium fragile, soon { 



away; inner peridium thin, yellowish. 

 Somewhat globose. Outer peridium thin, persistent, densely ve 



grey; inner peridium cinnanion. 

 Somewhat globose, .about 1 inch iu diameter. Outer peridium 



ashy; inner peridium pale. Sterile threads thick, fibrous. 

 Nearly globose, pale. Outer peridium thick, somewhat gelat 



collecting grains of sand; inner peridium membranous. 

 Somewhat globose. Outer peridium corky, ochrey; inner pe 



cartilaginous, turning black. 



idiuni 

 idium 

 illing 

 Ively, 

 thin, 

 uious, 

 idium 



Carn. II. -187 (1772). 



Ground ... 



Trunks ... 



Ground ... 



Ground ... 



Grassy places 



Ground ... 



Subterranean 



partly expo.sed 

 Ground ... 



Ground ... 

 Ground ... 



Ground ... 



Peridium thick, leathery, 

 globose, rough pointed. 



Somewhat globose, depressed, whitish, 



delicately velvety, dingy ochre. 

 Tufted. Peridium membranous, persistent, 



rooting. 

 Globose, about 1 inch across, with minute apiculate rooting base. 



Peridium brownish umber, smooth, shining. 

 Small, globose. Peridium membranous, pale, fawn-coloured, cortex 



rather rigid. 

 Peridium very thin, sessile, irregularly globose, root rather long, slender, 



bright yellow becoming brownish. 

 Somewhat globose. Cortex very thick and fibrous, forming persistent 



base like acorn cup. Peridiutu minutely rugged. 

 Globose and depressed. Outer cortex persistent, thin, white, silky ; inner 



layer thin, whitish, flexible. 

 Somewhat globose, with short stout rooting base. Cortex soon broken 



up into minute warts. Peridium firm, brown. 

 Peridium fluffy, becoming smooth, white, size of hazel-nut. 

 Globose, with short stout rooting )mse. Cortex very thin and 



evanescent. Peridium thick, soft, and pliant like leather, pale ochrey. 

 Among the sniiillest of puff-balls. Somewhat globose, slightly tapering 



below, with minute scurfy scales, becoming smooth, pale-olive ochre. 



Sp. PI. II. 1183 (17.53).— Bovista. 



Sand turfy meadows 



Ground ... 



Ground ... 



Among grass 



Ground ... 



Dung 

 Ground ... 



Ground ... 



Pastures ... 

 Ground ,,, 



Sessile, globose, and depressed, densely covered with sm.ill pointed 



warts. Root long tapering. 

 Peridium somewhat spherical, sessile, fragile above, greyish white to 



yellowish white, then olive grey. Edible. 

 Peridium nearly sessile, attached by a broad base, globose, tiien 



depressed, membranous, yellowish. 

 Solitary, sessile or stalked, large, somewhat globose or depressed. 



Cortex or bark p.ale-creamy ochre, broken into large angular patches. 

 Hemispherical or globose, abruptly contracted into short thick stem- 

 like base, smoky brown above, white below. 

 Globose, sessile, whitish, covered with delicate persistent spines. 

 Stalked, somewhat globose, depressed above, with prominent spiny 



warts, eventually falling off. Stem stout. 

 Nearly hemispherical, at first covered with slender spines becoming 



smooth. Stem short, stout. 

 Ses.5ile, somewhat globose, with very minute stellate warts. 

 Broadly obovate, contracted below into stout stem-like base. Peridium 



thin; cortex white, polished. 



