LYCOPERDACEAE 123 



Ohio. Dayton. Foeerstc, coll. Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, No. 130°, as G. limbatus. (N. Y. Bot. Card. 

 Herb, and Path and Myo. Herb.) 



Norwood. Lloyd, coll. l.loyd Herb.). 



Chillicothc. Hani, coll. (Lloyd Serb.). 



Preston. Morhan, coll. (Lloyd Herb., labelled G. limbatus by Morgan). 

 Missouri. Saint Louis. I ledgecock, coll. (Lloyd Herb.). 

 Wisconsin. Milwaukee. Brown, coll. (Lloyd Herb.). Buttons. 



Cedarburg. Panly, coll. (Lloyd Herb.). 

 Ontario. Regina. Willing, coll. (Lloyd Herb.). 

 Mexico. Ross and Painter, coll. (U. S. Nat'l. Herb.). 

 Japan. Sapporo. Miyabe, coll. (Lloyd Herb.). 



Geaster Hieronymi Hennings 



Plate 116 



Buttons embedded in the substratum, apparently slightly pointed; outer surface 

 covered at first with sandy earth or trash which may later strip off in part as a layer. 

 Rays expanded or the tips incurved, pliable, about 5-8 in number, center concave below; 

 fleshy layer adnate, thin and brown. Spore sac 1.5-2 cm. broad, subsessile or with a 

 short stalk, dark brown, harshly asperate with short, setose hairs. Peristome rather 

 indefinite (not sulcate), silky, mouth fimbriate. 



Spores (of plant from Jalapa, Mexico), small and minutely warted, 2.6-3.6^ thick, 

 often seeming slightly angular. 



Except for the asperate spore sac the plant is very like G. rufescens or G. fimbriates 

 and seems certainly to belong to their group. 



\Ye have seen the type collection of G. Hieronymi in the Lloyd Herbarium, and 

 find that it agrees closely with the Mexican plants. There are also two other lots in 

 the Lloyd Herbarium labelled G. Hieronymi from Brazil (Rick, coll.). One of these is as 

 described above and like the type ; the other is something different, with a sulcate mouth. 



Illustration: Lloyd. Myc. Works, pi. 229, fig. 2347. 



Mexico. Jalapa. Moist forest, alt. 5000 ft., Dec. 1909. Murrill, No. 244. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.) 



Brazil. Rick, coll. (Lloyd Herb.). 



Argentine. Hieronymus, coll. (Lloyd Herb.; type). 



South Africa. Miss Duthie, coll. (Lloyd Herb. J. 



Geaster Lloydii Bresadola 



Plate 117 



Buttons evidently subterranean or nearly so (submerged in humus), about 1.5 cm. 

 thick when dry, spherical, not pointed, woolly felted all over or with spots where the 

 softer wool has collapsed between the stiff er groups of hairs ; largely covered with bits 

 of leaves and trash, in some places nearly clean; the central point below attached to 

 obvious mycelial strands. Rays six or more, thin but rather rigid ; center concave below 

 usually; the thin tomentose outer layer with a strong tendency to peel off except at 

 tips, as in G. limbatus (sense of Bresadola) ; fleshy layer deep reddish brown to nearly 

 black, rimose, adherent. Spore sac sessile, thin, collapsing, dark brown with paler 

 areas at times or rarely pale all over, surface dull, minutely granular velvety, almost 

 exactly the color and surface of our G.fornicatas; mouth large, fimbriate; peristome not 

 defined, concolorous. The peeled off outer layer is delicate and pliable, and is usually 

 torn into strips. As it pulls away from the fibrous layer it leaves a narrow, root-like 



