LYCOPERDACEAE 107 



Smith. C.rrvilloa 2: pi. 20 (as G. saccatus). 

 Vittadini. Monog. Lycopcrd.. pi. 1. tig. 2. 



682. Chapel Hill. December 1908. Old collection with no other data. 

 5886. On mossy oak stump, October 17, 1922. 

 7483. Under cedars, Aug. 7, 1924. 



Asheville. Beardslee. 



South Carolina. Ravenel. (Curtis Herb., as G. fimbriates, No. 3025, and as G. saccatus, No. 1600; 

 Tath. and Myc. Herb., as G. saccalus, Fung. Car., No. 77.) Another folder of this No. 77 

 is a smaller plant with softer felted outside and tapering lobes and looks like our G. saccalus 

 from Asheville. 

 Florida. Alachua Co. Weber, coll. Spring of 192-1. (U. N. C. Herb., No. 7445). Also collection by 

 Walker. 

 Gainesville. Weber, coll. (U. X. C. Herb, and Univ. Florida Herb.). Lageniformis form. 

 Spores distinctly warted, 4-5. 5m thick, often with hyaline material. Also another collection 

 which is remarkable in its thin, soft, papery peridium. 

 Alabama. Spring Hill. Bertolet, coll. (Lloyd Herb.). Some of these have clean surfaces, while in 



others the surface is as dirty and trashy as in G. rufescens. Mouth very definite. 

 Maryland. Smith, coll. (U. S. Nat'l. Herb., as G. saccatus). 



New Jersey. Pennsville. Sept. 1891. Ellis and Everhart, N. Am. Fungi, No. 2736. (N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. Herb., as G.fimbriatus.) This is good G. triplex. (Path, and Myc. Herb., Washington, 

 as G. striatus.) 

 Pennsylvania. New Garden. (Michener Herb., as G. rufescens.) 



Ohio. Loveland. James, coll. 1880. (Path, and Myc. Herb., as G. saccatus.) Outer surface mottled 

 as in Rick, No. 261. 

 Cincinnati. Spurlock, coll. (Path, and Myc. Herb., as G. lageniformis). Also collection by 

 James in the same herbarium. 

 Illinois. Urbana. McDougall, coll. (U. N. C. Herb.). 

 Missouri. St. Louis. Trelease, coll. (Farlow Herb.). Lageniformis form. 

 Wisconsin. Algonia. Dodge, coll. (Unix-. Wis. Herb, and U. N. C. Herb.). 



Madison. Trelease. coll. (Farlow Herb.). A small, papery form. 

 Washington. Seattle. Morrill, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., No. 208). With a long single root 



2-3 mm. thick, attached to center of base and branched below. 

 Canada. London. Deamess, coll. (Path, and Myc. Herb., U. N. C. Herb., also Ellis and Everhart, 



X. Am. Fungi, No. 2735 in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 

 Mexico. Colima. Murrill. January 1910. Several buttons show a small point with top collapsed 

 around it; surface hard and glabrous, in some cases with flat, more or less inherent scales like 

 Scleroderma vulgaris, nearly clean; peristome distinct. Such a form is shown by Lloyd, Myc. 

 Notes, p. 339, fig. 166. 

 South America. Paraguay. Balansa, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., unnamed). Spores 3.7-4.2 M . 

 Brazil. Rick, coll. Fungi Austro-Americani, No. 261. (Path, and Myc. Herb., Washington.) 

 Exactly like G. triplex except that the outer surface is cracked and mottled to remind one of a 

 giraffe, a form closely approached by the plant from Ohio cited above. Spores 3.5^1. 1m 

 thick, surface as in G. triplex. Also 4 plants from Rick. (U. N. C. Herb.) 

 Venezuela. Fendler, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., asG. saccatus). Looks exactly like G. triplex. 

 A large plant with spore sac 2.5 cm. thick; rays long and taper-pointed. Spores distinctly 

 warted, 3.7— 1.4m thick. 

 England. Surrey and Ascot. (N, Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, from Massee Herb., as G. Michelianus.) 

 New Zealand. Cunningham, coll. (U. N. C. Herb.). Spores distinctly warted, 4.2-5.5 M thick. 



Geaster limbatus Fr. Sense of Bresadola. 



Plates 64, 115 and 116 



Plants large and resembling G. triplex in most important characters. The follow- 

 ing description refers to the dried plants: Outer peridial surface firm, glabrous, nearly 



