408 MTXOGASTRES. 



1194. Licea fragiformis. Fr. " Strawberry Licea." 



Conglomerate ; peridia linear, subconnate ; spores umber. — 

 Fr. >S'.M.iii.;?. 196. Eng. Fl.Y. p. 321. Bull. t. 384.. Nees.f.l02, 

 Grev. t. 308. Chev. t. 9,/. 23. 



On rotten wood, &c. [United States.] 



Very beautiful just before maturity, and resembling a strawberry. — 

 I^ncf. Fl. {Fig. 140.) 



1195. Licea applanata. Berh. " Flattened Licea." 



Depressed, conglomerated ; peridia very short, densely 

 crowded, liver-brown ; spores large. — Berk. Hook, Land. Jour, 

 iv.p.67. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 3^3. 



On dead twigs of currant, &c. 



Forming little thin, flat, distinct, rounded, or elongated patches, which 

 are at first scarlet, and then liver brown. Peridia short, densely crowded, 

 invisible to the naked eye. Spores large, broadly elliptic, with one or more 

 nuclei, argillaceous, tinged with red, mixed with a few flexuous threads, very 

 much larger than in L.fragiformis or L. cylindrica. — M. J. B. 



1196. Licea perreptans. BerTi. " Creeping Licea." 



Effused, at length here anei there conglomerated ; peridia ob- 

 long, mostly distinct ; spores purplish-black. — Berk. Gard. 

 Cliron. (1848), p. 451. Ann. N.H. no. 392. Lycoperdon echini- 

 formis. Sow. t. 400,/. 1. 



In a cucumber frame heated with spent hops. Rolleston. 

 Staffordshire. 



Hypothallus white, creeping far and wide, and protruding here and there 

 masses of oblong peridia, which are mostly distinct, assuming gradually a 

 reddish-brown tint, and in cases of premature exsiccation becoming black. 

 Spores very abundant, purple brown, mixed with a few flocci. Of extremely 

 rapid growth, which is like that o? L.fragiformis ; the spores, however, are 

 quite different, and the mucilage never acquires the beautiful strawberry 

 tint of that species. — M. J. B. 



Gen. 95. FHELONITIS, Chev. 



Peridium papyraceous, persistent, com- 

 monly splitting horizontally in the centre ; 

 spores large, rough. — Berk. Outl.p. 311. 



(Fig. 141. j 



Fig. 141. 



