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gills, the shorter, oval spores etc. The stem is peronate, densely 

 clad with recurved, coarse, dark brown scales from base to ring. 

 The figure in Fries: »Icones sei.« does not show the acute, 

 erect, pyramidal scales on the cap (and the bud is shown quite 

 smooth); nor are they mentioned in his description. Quélet 

 mentions the scales, but his description is in other respects 

 defective. The best description is that of Peck (L. fusco-sqiiamea, 

 Sacc. Syll. V); but as I think there can be little doubt of its 

 identity with L. hisp., I retain the older name. — The fungus 

 described by Ricken (1. cit.) as L. hispida seems to me more 

 like a form of L. acutesquamosa. 



22. L. echinella Quel. (Plate 1, fig. f.). 



Spores broadly oval, 4— 5 x 2 1 /,— 2 3 / 4 u. Cystidia 0. Basidia 

 4-spored. 



Fig. specim.: I. Vormark, in wood of Picea and Sambucus, on 

 the ground among sticks and foliage, Sept. 1902. II. Hunderup, 

 moist ground in foliaceous wood, Sept. 1903. — Rare and 

 solitary. 



This plant is very closely related to the preceding species, 

 the darker form (II) being in fact altogether a miniature of it. 

 The spores are somewhat shorter, the cap rarely exceeds 2 cm 

 in diameter. 



When in bud the 3 last species with their brown, mucronate 

 scales somewhat resemble Lycoperdon echinatum. 



[3. GRANULATÆ. 



23. L. cinnabarina Fr. 



Spores oval, 4*/ 2 x 2 1 /«— 2 3 / 4 u. Basidia 4-spored. Cystidia hair- 

 shaped, acute (1910). 



Fig. specim.: Grib Skov (foliaceous-coniferous wood), Sept. 1896. 

 (Also found at Frederikshaab, near Naarup, in wood of Fagus, 

 Aug. 1910). 



My plants come very near to Cooke's figure of L. Terrei; but 

 I do not see any notable difference between this one and L. 

 cinnabarina proper. 



24. L. granulosa (Batsch.). 



Spores oval, 4— 5 x 27 2 — 3 u (fig.). 1914: Spores 4 x 2 3 / 4 u. 



Cystidia hair-shaped, acute, small, 2—3 u broad. Cells on surface 

 of cap subglobular, mixed with others which are almost cylindric, 

 irregularly bent or wavy. 



Fig. specim.: Trolleborg, mossy roadside in coniferous plan- 

 tation, Oct. 1899. — Not common, chiefly in open spaces on 

 sandy soil, in or outside plantations of coniferous trees. — Very 

 closely related to no: 23. It is often considerably smaller than 

 the specimens figured. 



