642 ONTGEI^EI. 



1903. Onygena equina. Pers. " Hoof Onygena." 



Head lenticular, furfuraceous, dirty white, at length more or 

 less regularly splitting all round ; stem abbreviated ; sporidia 

 oblong-ovate or ovate, simple ; epispore pale tawny ; nucleus 

 oblong, hyaline. — Pers. Syn.p. 203. Fdzl. Sym. Myc. t. 6,f. 19. 

 Movg. exs. no. lib. Grev. t. 343. Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1844, t. 17, 

 /. 12-17. Corda. vi. 1 10, f. 96. Fr. S.M. in. p. 207. Eng. Fl. v. 

 'p. 322. Chev. t. 8, /. 8. Lycop. equinum. Sow. t. 292. Lycop. 

 gossypinum. Bolt. 1. 178. Pay. Syn. {ed. 3), 1. 1,/. 3. Mich. t. 97, 

 /. 8. Pers. Ohs. ii. t. 6,f. 3, a. b. c. Fl. Dan. 1. 1309, /. 1. Nees.f. 

 121. 



On hoofs of horses, &c. [Mid. Carolina.] 



{Fig. 309.) 



1904. Onygena piligena. Fr. "Flannel Onygena." 



Head globose, somewhat umbilicate beneath, peridium rup- 

 turing at the base, deciduous, membranaceous ; stem elongated, 

 equal.— i^r. /S.J/. iii. /A 208. B. 4' Br. Ann. N.H. no. 219. Fl. 

 Dan. t. 1740, /. 2. 



On old flannel. Sherwood Forest. 



Gregarious ; stem half in. long, equal, even, fibroso- striate. According to 

 some the peridium is double, the outer being membranaceous, white, split- 

 ting to the base in unequal revolute lacinias, the inner very delicate and 

 translucent. 



1905. Onygena apus. B.diBr. " Bone Onygena." 



Peridium white, sessile, globose, seated on a delicate, white 

 mycelium, externally tomentose, mature mass red-brown. — B. ^ 

 Br. Ann. N.H. no. 582. 



On decaying bones. Nov. Bristol. 



Peridia globose, white, sessile, seated on a delicate white mycelium, about 

 the size of rape seeds, under a lens tomentose, but even, not rugose ; spo- 

 ridia ovate-elliptic, containing one or two granules, colouring the internal 

 mass of a dark chocolate. — B. d; Br. 



Closely allied to the Xorth American species 0. corcina. A. <k S» 



