298 FUNGI. [Batairea . 



charging a white jelly from the base, just as the perithecium was 

 separating, consisting of very minute oblong sporidia. There is a very 

 curious form in the Appin collection, apparently on the stem of some 

 Aspidiian, with very minute stellate perithecia, or elongated with 

 stellate apices, like some Opegraphcc. 



3. L. SpirecB, Kunz. {Meadow-sweet Leptostroma) ; conglo- 

 merato- conn ate irregular rugose shining grey within, at length 

 separating entirely at the base. 



On deatl stems of Spircea Ulmaria. Extremely common.— After 

 Leptostroma follow, in the Si/stema Mi/cologicum, the doubtful genus 

 Ectostroma, which is characterized as " Epiphytous, effused spots^^^ 

 without any proper (distinct from the matrix) substance or vegetation." 

 Of the forms enumerated, Dr. Greville has found that on Iris Pseuda- 

 corus about Edinburgh, which consists of oblong jet-black opaque spots 

 with the habit of a JRliytisma. 



Tribe 3. Trichospermi. (^^/J, ?ihair, and 6-rsoixa, a seed.) — 

 Peridium simple or double, bursting when full grown and pouring 

 forth abundant naked dust-like sporidia, Sporidia rather large, 

 subglobose, collected more or less in tJie centre of the peridium, loose, 

 or interwoven more or less withjiocci. Texture vesiculose. 



* Trichogastres. (^^/g, a hair, and ya(^rri^.) At first fleshy. 

 72. Batarrea. Pers* Batarrea. 



Beceptacle bursting forth from a volva, stipitate, pileate, the 

 upper surface villoso-pulverulent. — Named in honour of the 



IVIycologist Batarra, 



1. B. Phalloides, Woo^w. {Phallus-like Batarrea) ; stem 



equal, sporidia brown. Pers. Sgn.p. 129. t. S.f 1. N'ees, Sgst. 



f. 257. Fr. Si/st. Myc. v. 3. p. 7. — Lycoperdon Phalloides, 



Woodw. Phil. Tr. V. 74. p. 423. t. 16, 1784. Dicks. 1. p. 24. 



Smith. Spic. Bot. t. \'2. Sow. t. 390. 



On sand hills. Aug. — March. Very rare. Norwich, Mr. W. 

 Humphrey. Stoke, Norfolk, W. J. Hooker. Bungay, Thomas Jenkin- 

 son Woodward, Esq. Suffolk, D. E. Davy, Esq. — " Whole plant 

 more or less of a brown hue. Exterior volva ovate, fleshy, dirty-white 

 inclining to brown, buried 6—8 inches in the sand, with a few dirty- 

 white, fioccose, rooting hairs at the base ; middle volva much thinner 

 and almost membranaceous connected with the outer by mucilage, 

 smooth within ; inner volva internally villous covered with \evy abun- 

 dant, yellow-brown dust-like seed; externally concave and smooth. 

 Stem formed within the cavity of the interior volva, cylindric, straight, 

 short, fleshy, filled with mucilage, but afterwards elongated upwards 

 with wonderful force and quickness and protruded through the soil, 

 carrying with it almost the whole inner volva, adnate with its apex and 

 covered with a portion of the outer coat torn off in the same manner. 

 Immediately after maturity it becomes dry, as also the volva, tubular 

 within, and externally fibrous ; and remains a long time bleached and 

 tossed about by wind and rain." Sin. I. c. To the above description, 

 which, though scarcely sufficiently exact, is the best and fullest hitherto 



