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OF AUSTEALIAN FUl^GI— continued. 



FEIES, S.M. III. 5 (1829). 



Fung. 150 (ISOl). — Lycoperdou, Mycenastrum. 



Soil 



Sandy ground 



Sandy ground 



Sandy ground 

 Ground ... 



Ground ... 

 Ground ... 



Ground ... 



Sandy ground 



Ground under trees, 

 &c. 



Nearly globose, sessile. Peridium thick, externally minutely felty, 



dirty ochre, with rooting base. 

 Obovoid to spherical, somewhat stalked or possibly with rooting base, 



warty, turning yellow. 

 Nearly globose, whitish, then greyish brown, leathery, splitting above 



in stellate manner. 

 Sessile, nearly globose, opening at top in stellate fringes. 

 Nearly globose, sessile, lead colour above, whitish below ; sterile threads 



and mass of spores olive. 

 Globose, sessile, yellow, tesselate above. 



Nearly globose ; sterile threads and mass of spores dark purple brown. 

 I'eridium globose, opaque, umber beneath, concave, size of hazel-nut, 



with slender stem. 

 Peridium globose, coarsely wrinkled below, dirty pale ochre. Stem 



coiirsely furrowed, diirk brown, passing into dense bulbous mass. 

 Peridium rounded, at first hard, then fragile, covered with rather 



warted cortex, dingy yellowish. 

 Almost sessile, deformed. Peridium corky, citron then reddish brown, 



growing pale with age. 



Lycoperdon, Lycoperdoides. 



Ground ... 



Ground ... 



Ground ... 



Immersed in sand , 



River banks 

 Ground ... 



Ground ... 



Sandy ground 



Sandy ground 

 Ground ... 



Sandy soil 



Peridium globose, white, polished and shining, tapering below into very 



short stout irregular stem-like base. 

 Stem rooting, almost cylindrical, shining, blackish brown, dilated into 



like-coloured nearly globose peridium. 

 Peridium nearly globose, slightly narrowed below into short thick 



stem, or pear shaped, olivaceous umber with polygonal cavities. 

 Peridium from spherical to clavate, pale ochre becoming darker ; stem- 

 like base stout, minute cavities. 

 Club shaped with rooting stem. Peridium simple, ochrey-tan colour. 

 Peridium somewhat globose, tapering to stem-like base, dirty ochre, 



m.arbled with darker patches. 

 Peridium nearly globose, coarsely tubercled, ochrey brown, stout, with 



stem-like base, bright citrine. 

 Peridium nearly globose, passing down into short stem-like base, 



reddish brown, tinged olive. 

 Without distinct stem. 

 Peridium nearly globose or deformed, with short stem-like base, ochrey; 



cavities large, angular. 

 Peridium cyliudric to club shaped, covered .at first with fine spider-like 



web, dark umber, passing into stem-like base. 



Syn. Car. 14 (1822). 



14341 W.A. I ... I ... I ... 



Mtachedto Locellinia I Globose, depressed a little, pale. 

 cycnopotamia \ 



Fl. N. Zeal. II. 188 (185.J). 



14351 ... I ... ^ ... i V. ! 



Trunks 



(ilobose, depressed, tawny flesh colour, spores spiny. 



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