Gasteromycetae, Lycoperdaceae, Aracliiiiopsis. 597 



spinulis rtciitis subhyalinis asperatis, saepius hypbis permauentibus 

 obvolutis. 



Hah. terra subimmersum, Asmara, Erythraea Africae. — Vege- 

 tum flavo-brunneum. 



GALLACEA Lloyd, The Lycoperd. of Australia, etc. p. 37 (1905), Pat. 

 in Bull. Soc. Mycol. Fr. 1911, p. 34 (Etyra. a galla ob habitum). — 

 Peridium simplex. Gleba ex cellulis non collabescentibus stratum 

 tenue peridio adnatum efiformantibus. Centro cavo. Capillitium nul- 

 lum. Sporae fusiformes. 



1. Gallacea avellana Patouill., Bull. Soc. Mycol. Fr. 1911, p. 38 f. 1-2.— 2202 

 Subglobosa, basi depressa, alba; peridio crassiusculo, rigido, mem- 

 brana tenuissima, tessellato-rimosa obtecto ; gleba fusca, coutinua 

 deiu (in sicco) irregulariter excavata ; loculis minutissimis, farctis, 

 creberrimis ; sporis ellipsoideis, hyalino-fuscis, 5-6 ^ 3. 



Rah. iu silvis Kovae Caledoniae, in ramulis ad terram (Le Eat). 



PHELLORINA Berk. — Syll. Vll p. 145, IX p. 279, XI p. 167, XIV 



p. 267, XVII p. 239, XXI p. 491. 

 1. Phellorina macropora Lloyd, Lett. 44, p. 9 (1913). — Affinis Phell. 2203 



Delastrei sed sporis majoribus, 16-18 (x, uec. 5-6 [x. 



Mah. iu locis desertis, California merid., Mecca iu Colorado, Amer. 



bor. (S. B. Parish). 



ARACHNION Schw. — Syll. VII p. 150, VI p. 168, XXI p. 493. 



1. Arachnion scleroderma Lloyd, Mycol. Notes, 39., p. 538, tig. 741 2204 

 (1915). — Globosum, 1-1,5 cm. diam., basi longa radicanti ; basi 

 sterili nulla; peridio tenui, verrucis majusculis irregularibus (Scle- 

 rodermatis aurautiaci ad iustar) ; gieba viridi-ochracea ; peridiolis 

 irregularibus e globoso elongatis v. obtuso triangularibus 60-300 [j, 

 diam.; sporis globosis v. ovoideis, plerumque pedicellatis, pedicello 

 16-20 [X longo. 

 Eab. ad terram in Africa australi (Miss A. V. Duthie). 



ARACHNIOPSIS Long, Mycologia 1917, p. 272. (Etym. Arachnion, cui 

 affine genus). — Peridium subglobosum, terrestre, duplex; exoperi- 

 dium fragile, plus minusve deciduum; endoperidium cartilagineum, 

 apice irregulariter dehiscens. Gleba ex sporis pulvereis et capil- 

 litio constans. Columella et peridiola nulla. Ab affiui Arachnio dif- 

 fert caiiillitio geuuino, endoperidio cartilagiueo etc. 



