HTPOG^I. 



355 



Gen. 57. 



OCTAVIANIA, Yitt. 



Fig. 102. 



Peridium continuous or cracked, cottony, 

 running down into the sterile base. Trama 

 byssoid, easily divisible. Fruit-bearing cavi- 

 ties or cells at first empty. Spores rough. — 

 Vitt. Tub. p. 16. Tul.Hyp.p.ll. Berk. Outl. 

 p. 292. {Fig. 102.) 



1045. 



Octaviania astefosperma. 



Octaviania." 



Vitt, " Star-spored 



Globose, dirty white, then in parts, ceruginous-blue and black; 

 sterile base rather thick ; spores spherical, deep ferruginous, 

 echinate. — Berk. Outl. p. 292. Tul. Hyp. 1. 11, f. 1. Vitt. Tub. t. 

 3,f. 7. Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. xix. 1. 17,/. 21. Corda. Ic. vi. t. l^f. 

 64. Corda. Anl. t. D.f. 4:6, no. 6,6. 



Underground, adhering by the mycelium to twigs, &c. West 

 of England. 



The smell is just like the pungent odour of some Ichneumon or small bee. 

 Spores (-0004 in.) '0128 mm. (Fie/. 102, spores.) 



1046. Octaviania Stephensii. Tul. " Stephens's Octaviania." 



Irregular, oblong, externally rufous, plicato-rugose at the base, 

 cribrose, white within; milky, at length, when exposed to the air, 

 rufous; spores globose, at length echinulate. — Berk. Outl. p. 292. 

 Tul. Hyp. t. 21, f. 6. C or da. yi. f. 67. Hydnanyium Stephensii, 

 Berk. Ann. N.H. xiii. p. 352, no. 300. 



Underground, or half buried. 



Aug. 



Clifton. 



About I in. diameter, oblong, attached by a branched fibrous root, smooth, 

 not cracked, dark rufous, curiously plicate at the base, and cribrose ; within 

 white, yielding when cut a white milky fluid ; substance when cut and ex- 

 posed to the air soon acquiring a red tinge, which is not, however, perma- 

 nent, and in young specimens vanishes almost entirely in drying, in which 

 state the hymenium is cream-coloured ; cells minute ; spores at first irregu- 

 larly globose, with a broad rugulose border, somewhat after the fashion of the 

 young spores of Sderoderma, at length echinulate. This species is remark- 

 able for its milky juice, smooth dark peridium, and plicate base. The smell 

 was slight.- M. J. B. Spores -0096 X '0128 mm. (-00035 X '0004 in.) dia- 

 meter. 



