TEICHOGASTEES. 



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1078. Geaster hygrometricus. P. " Hard-coated Geaster." 



Outer peridium multipartite, thick, rigidly inflexed when dry; 

 inner sessile, sub-reticulate, bursting irregularly. — Fr.S.M.\\\. 

 ;9. 19. 3//cA. ;^. 100,/. 4-6. Gled.t.6. Bull. 1. 138 (partli/), f. a-d. 

 Schmid. t. 27 , 28. Sow.t.AOl. Nees.f.121. Bolt.t.lld. Kl. 

 exs. no. 341. Eng. Fl. \.p. 302. Bisch. f. 3632. FcJd. exs, no. 

 1263. 



On the ground. Rare. Xear Halifax. [United States.] 



Variable in size, colour, and the surface of the inner peridium, which ia 

 sometimes reticulated, sometimes nearly smooth. — Eng. Fl. The hard, horny, 

 outer peridium, and scurfy or reticulate, irregularly bursting, inner peridium, 

 readily distinguish this species. — M. ./. B. 



1079. Geaster lageniformis. Vltt. '• Flask-like Geaster." 



Outer peridium splitting to the middle, in nearly equal acu- 

 minate lacini^e, inner stratum very thick, evanescent. Inner 

 peridium sessile, flaccid, mouth determinate, piano-conic, ciliato- 

 fimbriate, columella rather long, clavate. — Vitt. Monog.Lycop. 

 t.lj.2. Pa?/6r./. 519, 520. 



On the ground. 



Specimens were exhibited at one of the meetings of the Horticultural 

 Society of London. (Fig. 113, redvxed.) 



Gen. 69. 



BOVISTA, Dill. 



Peridium papyraceous (or some- 

 times corky), persistent ; bark dis- 

 tinct, continuous, at length shelling 

 off. Capillitium sub-compact, equal, 

 adnateto the peridium on all sides ; 

 spores pedicellate. — Fr. S.M. iii.j?. 



21. BerJc. Outlp. 301. (Fij. 114.) 

 Fig. 114. 



1080. Bovista nigrescens. P. •' Blackish Bovista." 



Subglobose, peridium papyraceous, tough, at length blackish- 

 umber; bark even, entirely evanescent; capillitium dense, 

 purple brown, as well as the spores. — Fr. S.M. iii. p. 23. Berk. 

 Outl.t. 20, f. 5. Bocc.t. 306,/. 2. Bolt. t. 118. Batsch. f. 116. 

 Sow. t. 331. Eng. Fl. v. p. 302. Fckl. exs. no. 1884. A7. exs. no. 

 1410. 



In pastures. Common. [United States.] 



About IJ in. broad. 



