Gasteromycetse, Lycoperdacese, Elasmomyces. 467 



Fam. 3. Lycopor(laco8P. 



SECOTIUM Kunze - Syll. VII p. 51, IX p. 266, XI p. 167, XIV 

 p. 257, XVII p. 217. 



1. Secotium tenuipes Setchell, Jouri]. of Mycol. XIII (1907; p. 239. 1826 

 tab. 107, fig. 4-8. — G-regarium; peridio subgloboso aut late ovoi- 

 deo, subumbonato, basi plus minusve truncato et velo horizontali 

 exiguo evanescente et arachnoideo instructo, 1-2 cm. lato et 1-1,5 

 cm. alto, e luteo-fusco fusco, glabro, carnoso; gleba a stipite fere 

 hbera sed ad apicem extremum lamelliformiter decurrente, lacunis 

 aut regulariter aut indefinite sinuosis labyrinthica, marginibus la- 

 melliformibus, luteo-fusca, sine venis propriis; stipite usque ad 2 

 cm. longo, gracili, evolvato, striato, per glebam libere percurrente 

 sed ad apicem in glebam expanso; basidiis 2-4-sporiferis, sterig- 

 matibus distinctis subintumescentibusque; sporis ellipsoideis v. ovoi- 

 deis, 12-16*8-12, luteo-fuscis, levibus. 



Ildb. ad terram argillaceam inter folia dejecta prope Berkeley 

 et S. Francisco CalifornisB. 



ELASMOMYCES Cav. - Syll. XIV p. 258, XVII p. 218. 



1. Elasmomyces russuloides Setchell, Journ. of Mycol. XII 1(1907) i827 

 p 240, tab. 107, fig. 1-3. — Solitarius v. subgregarius ; peridio 

 depresso-globoso, inferne umbilicato et pseudolamellas ostendente, 

 1-1,6 cm. diam., 1-1,25 cm. alto, albo plus minusve rubescente, 

 glabro; gleba alba, a stipite fere ad apicem libera, intus regula- 

 riter cellulosa, cellulis polygonato-sinuosis, extus plane lamellosis : 

 stipite brevi v. brevissimo, moderate robusto, tereti, nunc recto 

 nunc curvato, per glebam ad apicem percurrente etdistincto; ba- 

 sidiis 2-4-sporiferis, sterigmatibus gracilibus curvatisque, cystidiis 

 nunc frequentibus nunc sparsis, plus minusve clavatis gracilibus- 

 que; sporis globosis, albidis, lineis elevatis in rete irregulariter 

 contextis, 6-8 [x. diam. 



Hah. ad terram inter folia dojecta, Borkoloy Caliiorui:i' ^^N. L. 

 Gardener et W. A. Setchell). 



2. Elasmomyces krjukowensis (F. Bucholtzi Sacc. et D. Sacc. — Syll. i828 

 XVII, p. 218. — f. pleurotopsis Bucholtz, Bull. Soc Imp. Nat. 

 Moscou (1907) n. 4, p. 463. — A typo recedit peridio hrtc fia- 



