TUBEEACEI. 



745 



Gen. 313, 



STEPHENSIA, Tul. 



2251. 



Fig. 348. 



Stephensia bom'byciiia. 



Stephensia." 



Common integu- 

 ment fleshy, cottony; 

 base distinct ; hjme- 

 ninm intricate ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 

 globose. — Tul. Hyp. 

 ^?;129. Berh. Outl.p. 

 377. (Fig. 348.) 



Tul. " Strong- scented 



Subglobose, depressed ; peridium rather soft, floccose, irregu- 

 larly intruded into the cavity, destitute of rooting fibres ; flesh 

 gyroso-venose ; sporidia pellucid, spherical. — Tal. Hyp. t.l2,f. 

 4. Genea homhycina, Vitt. Tab. t. 3,/. 13, t. 4,/. 8. B. c^- Br. Ann. 

 N.H. xiii. p. 357. 



Oct. Castle Combe, Chudleigh. 



Peridium floccose, rather soft, dirty white, and so much intruded as some- 

 times to leave no cavity. The sporidia are globose, at first smooth, at length 

 verrucose. With age they lose their transparency. The_ smell is very strong 

 and disagreeable, resembling that of Melajwgaster amhiguus. A small slice 

 of it placed in a drop of water on the field of the microscope produced when 

 dry a quantity of fine radiating crystals. Spores •iU9-"022 m.m. diameter.— 

 M. J. B. {Fig. 348 sect, and s])oridiuiii.) 



Gen, 314. HYDNOTRYA, B. & Br. 



Common integument minutely pa- 

 pillose, not distinct ; hymenium com- 

 plicated with gyrose lacunge, leading 

 to the surface ; asci oblong ; spori- 

 dia globose, tuberculate. — B. ^- Br. 

 Fig. 349. Jnn. N.H. xviii. ;;. 78. Tul. Hyp. p. 



127. (i^/^.349.) 



2252. Hydnotrya Tulasnii. B. ^^ Br. " Tulasne's Hydnotrya." 



Globose-depressed, base plicate, cribroso-porose, velvety rufous ; 

 cells large, ^valls pubescent, white; trama rufous; asci long ; 

 sporidia globose, at length reticulated, not echinulate. — B. 4' Br. 

 Ann. N.H.xYiii.p. 78. Tul Hyp.t.8,f.2,t. U,f. 3,i.21. Hyd- 

 noholites Tulasnei, Berk. Ann. N. H. xiii./*. 357, no. 317. BerJc. exs. 

 no. 302. 



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