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North Carolina. Salem. Schwcinitz, coll. (Curtis Herb., as C. pectinatus) . Spore sac practically 



sessile. 

 Virginia. Warrenton. In upland frondose woods, Sept. 6, 1926. Coker, coll. (U. N. C. Herb.). 



Spores minutely warted, 3.4— Ip. 

 New Jersey. Newfield. Ellis, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Card. Herb.). 

 Nebraska. Bates, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Card. Herb., from Lloyd Herb, and Path, and Myc. Herb., 



Washington, as Bartholomew, Fungi Columb., No. 5020). 

 Texas. Denton. Long, coll. (Path, and Myc. Herb., Washington; Ellis and Everhart, Fungi 



Columb., No. 1620, as C. pectinatus). Mixed with these is a plant with strongly granular 



spore sac like C. asper except that the outer peridium is not hygroscopic but like the others. 

 Cuba. Wright, No. 694. (Curtis Herb., as G. tenuipes Berk.). Spore sac apparently sessile, slate 



color with a dusting of grayish powder. 



Geaster Hariotii Lloyd 



Plates 68 and 115 



Rays about S, spreading about 3 cm., pliable, not hygroscopic, revolute or in part 

 expanded, the center concave below and elevating the spore sac; outer surface entirely 

 covered with earth or trash held on by flocculent mycelium which may in time be 

 partially shed in flakes. Fleshy layer dark brown, cracking and seceding in places. 

 Spore sac 1.5 cm. broad, subglobose, sessile, dark brown to black, distinctly pitted and 

 rough to asperate with small points, but not truly warted or tomentose. Peristome 

 truly sulcate, mouth elevated and becoming fimbriate. 



Spores (of plant from Porto Rico) spherical, dark, faintly rough under very high 

 power, 3.5-4m thick. 



As Lloyd does not mention a rough surface to the peridium (Myc. Notes, p. 311), 

 we had referred our plant to this species with some doubt until the recent receipt from 

 Patouillard of a specimen from Brazil that had been seen by Lloyd and which Patouillard 

 designates as an "original specimen." This is exactly like our plant except that the 

 surface is somewhat less conspicuously rough; rays not rigid; spores spherical, nearly 

 smooth, 3-3.6ju thick, often with a visible oil drop. Capillitium threads straight, 

 encrusted, up to 6.5/u thick. Under G. Archeri Lloyd has two collections, one from 

 Ceylon (Petch, coll.) and one from Victoria (Winkler, coll.). They are not that 

 species, but pale forms of G. Hariotii. The mouth in each case is darker than the 

 granular or spongy peridium; peridium clay-brown to brown; mouth truly sulcate; 

 outer surface densely flocculent and with trash as in G. Hariolii. 



Illustrations: Cunningham. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 51: pi. 4, fig. 12. 

 Lloyd. Myc. Works, pi. 99, figs. 7-9. 



Porto Rico. March 1923. Seaver, coll. (Seaver Herb., No. 840, and TJ. N. C. Herb.). 

 British Honduras. M. E. Peck, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). Spores smooth, 3-3.7/1 thick. 

 Brazil. (U. N. C. Herb, from Patouillard.) 



Rio. In leaf mold, March 1894. Murrill, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 

 Dutch Guiana. Samuels, coll. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Geaster asper (Mich.) Lloyd 

 G. pseudomammosus Henn. 

 G. campesiris Morgan 



Plates 68 and 115 



Plants submerged until mature, the mycelium universal; rays with a spread of 

 2.5-3.5 cm. (up to 5 cm., Morgan), hygroscopic, rigid, 8-10, rarely more, involute or 



