95 



OF AUSTRALIAN FUNQI—coiiUmieJ. 



W.A. 



Habitat. 



General Characters. 



Sp. ri. II. 1183 (1753). — Bovista — continued. 



Ground ... 



On stumps or soil, 

 .attached to branches, 

 &c. 

 Ground ... 



Ground ... 



Rotten wood, &c. 



Ground 



Globose, sessile, passing abruptly into sliort tapering root. Pcridiura 



thick, minutely warted, becoming smooth. 

 Denselj* tufted, pear shaped, membranous, covered with minute-pointed 



warts, brownish, rooting. 



Globose, tapering downward, with slightly-raised reticulalioas, 



eventually disappe.aring and leaving polished surface. 

 Sessile, nearly globose. Peridium thin, covered at first with stout 



stellate spiny warts, falling awiiy in patches and leaving smooth 



surface. 

 Globose, sessile, whitish, covered with delicate spines, which become 



smaller downwards. 

 Globose, sessile, thick and rigid, brown, minutely velvety. 



Globose, sessile, terminating in short slender root. Peridium papery, 

 covered at first with minute warts, becoming smooth and shining. 



Exot. 155 (1886). — Scleroderma, Pliellorina. 



14081 



Or 



Ground 



Globose and depressed, with stout angular scales above. Stem solid, 

 rather woody. 



Grev. XV. 100 (1887). 



14091 ... I ... 1 T. I ... 1 



Ground 



Tufted, nearly globose, confluent below in tough rooting stem. Outer 

 peridium tawny, leathery ; inner peridium at length horny. 



Ann. Sci. Nat. 3 Ser. IV. 36-1 (1845), 



Ground, trunk of 

 Kucalyptus hemi- 

 phloia 

 Ground ... 



Peridium volvate when young. Stem rooting, broken into scales. 



Stalked. Peridium globose, with large warts. Stem erect, thick, solid, 

 with overlapping scales. 



Fung. Nat. 32 (1848). 



1412 ... 



Ground 



Peridium club shaped, simple, without special cortex, membnanous 

 above. 



