592 Gaateromycetse, Lycoperdacese, Geasteroides. 



(licellato, fuscopluinbeo, i^ruiiiula rtetersili cinereo-glauca toto ve- 

 >stito, ostiolo (letevminato, conico, exiniie pectinato penicillato; gleba 

 atro-fuliginea ; sporis minutis, globosis, 3-4,5 (saepius 4) |jl diaui., 

 prinio sublevibus dein laxe obsoleteque asperulis, grosse 1-guttulatis. 



Hah. in locis siccioribus jirope La Plata, nec non prope Poman- 

 cillo, Catamarca, Argentina. 

 li. Geaster pulveruleiltus Wakefield, Kew BulL Misc. Inf. 1916, n. 3, 2183 

 p. 73. — Exoperidio fere ad basim in segmenta 6-7 partito, 4-5,5 

 cm. diam. ; segmeutis patentibus v. revolutis; externo albido, floc- 

 coso mox secedente e rliizomorphis albidis oriundo; strato interno 

 carnoso, griseo et siccitate rimoso; endoperidio subgloboso, substi- 

 pitato, umbrino, griseopruinoso ; peristomio vix prominente, obscu- 

 riore, sericeo-striato, non sulcato ; hyphis capillitii olivaceo-brun- 

 neis, crasse tunicatis, ad 6 [i cr., levibus, v. granulis minutis in- 

 crustatis ; sporis fusco-brunneis, levibus^ 3-3,5 |ji diam. 



Hab. ad terram, Southern Provinces Nigeriae, Africa trop. — G. sac- 

 cato^ G. minimo et G. Schmidelii proximus, sed notis variis distinctus. 



3. Geaster juniperlnus Mac Bride, Mycologia, 1912, p. 8o, t. 62. — Exo- 2184 

 peridio multifido vario 5-9-lobato, endoperidio ovato elongato pe- 

 dicellato albo v. cyaneo-albo, stomate conico, ciliato, ex areola de- 

 finita sed leviter depressa elevato; columella obtusa ; cai)illitii fila- 

 mentis levibus luce transmissa pallidis 3 p cr. ; sporis globosis ver- 

 rucosis atro-brunneis coacervatis fere nigris 3 \i. diam. 



Hab. ad terram inter J u u i p e r o s , Jowa Amer. bor. — Ge. mi- 

 nimo et Ge. marginato affiuis. 



4. Geaster comptus Sydow, Ann. Mycol. 1917, p. 171.— Pedicellatum, 2185 

 stipite ca. 4-8 mm. longo, uuo ut videtur pluripedicellatum; my- 

 celium filamentosum, album, exoperidium 2-3 cm. diani., globulo- 

 suni, usque ad medium 4 9-fidum, lacinis membrauaceis cuneiformi- 

 bus, intus leve, glabrum, nigresceus extus fere lateritium et dense 

 aequaliterque tomentoso verrucosum ; endoperidum globusum, leve 

 glabrum, papyraceum, sessiJe, umbrinum, peristomio breviter conico 

 atro deuse distincteque pectinato-sulcato, rima circulari circum- 

 scripto ; gleba atro brunuea; capillitium ex hyphis simplicibus fla- 

 vidulis 3-5 \\ crassis compositum ; sporae giobosae, flavo-bruuneae 

 dense verrucosae, 3,5-5 |ji diam. 



Hab. ad terram (?), prov. Sorogon, Luzon Ins. Philipp. (M. Ea- 

 MOS). — Proximus Geasteri JJybowskii. 



GEASTEROIDES Long, MycoL, 1917, p. 271 (Etym. a Geaster ob af 



