LYCOPERDACEAE 127 



Hollos. 1. c. pi. 10, figs. 17 and 18. 



Lloyd. ThcGoastraclig. 74. 



Muhaol. l'ulmr f. l'il/.freunde 2: No. 202, figs, a and b. 1918 (2nd ed). 



Morgan. North American Gcastcrs, fig. 8. 



Petri. 1- c., tig. ■!-■ 



Rea. 1. c, pi. 19. 



Rolland. Champ. France, pi. 1 10, fig. 252. 



Schmidel. Icon, riant., pi. 50, figs. 1-4. 1747. 



Smith. Grevillea 2: pi. 17, fig. 2. 



Soweiby. Engl. Fungi, pi. 80. 



1291. In cedar twigs and oak leaves mixed at the base of a cedar tree, September 30, 1914. Spores 

 minutely asperulate, up to 3.7m thick. 



7092. Under cedar tree, August 24, 1923. Spores 2.8-3. 7/i. Capillitium threads thick-walled, nearly 



hyaline, up to 6.6m thick. 



7093. In rotting frondose leaves, August 24, 1923. Spores dark under the microscope, surface as 



usual, 2. 2-3. 4^ thick. 

 Also Nos. 4096, 7097, 7135, 7439, 7476, 7480. 



Statesville. Beardslee, coll. (Lloyd Herb., as G. saccatus). 



South Carolina. Society Hill. (Curtis Herb., asG. fimbriates, No. 3833.) 



Tennessee. Unaka Springs. Murrill, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



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



New Hampshire. Shelburne. Farlow, coll. (Farlow Herb.). 



Wisconsin. Eagle Heights, near Madison, August 26, 1903. No distinct peristome. Spores very 



faintly spiny, 3-3. 7 M thick. (U. N. C. Herb.) 

 Ohio. Miami Valley. Morgan, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Colorado. Minnehaha. Clements, Crypt. Form. Colo., No. 194, as G. limbatus (in part). (Farlow 

 Herb.) 



Denver. Bethel, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 

 Ontario. Sarina. Bertolet, coll. (Lloyd Herb., as G. saccatus). Also collection from Canada by 

 Deamess. (U. N. C. Herb.) 



Geaster florifonnis Vitt. 

 G. delicatus Morg. 



Plates 68, 115 and 116 



Plants (typically) small, with a spread when expanded of 2-2.5 cm., submerged 

 until mature ;"rays about 8-10, unequal, hygroscopic and expanding quickly when put 

 into water, covered at first with sandy earth held on by mycelium, this flaking off by 

 degrees to leave the surface smooth and pale after exposure; fleshy layer dark brown, 

 adnate, continuous then rimose; inner peridium about 6-8 mm. thick, subglobose or 

 depressed, sessile, pale, covered at first with fine granules or furfuraceous particles which 

 soon wear away in large part; mouth only a puncture or slit with short radiating fissures 

 with no defined or silky area around it as a rule, after a time the margin becoming 

 fimbriate. 



Spores (of Clements, No. 613) distinctly warted, spherical, 5-7^ thick, or slightly 

 elongated and about 6.5 x 7 An. Capillitium threads straight, thick-walled, up to 7^ 

 thick. 



The American plants are like those of a good collection from Hollos (Hungary) 

 sent us through the kindness of Patouillard. In these plants the peristome is indefinite, 

 rays strongly hygroscopic, spores spherical or somewhat irregular, distinctly warted, 

 5-7 x 6-8/i. Similar plants from Hollos have been seen by us in the Lloyd Herbarium. 



