306 FUNGI. [ElapJiomyces. 



variety h. The larger form is generally of a yellowish hue, with the 

 surface w arty, or covered with squarrose scales : the smaller quite sessile, 

 minutely warty and of a bright-brown. Though the extremes are very 

 different, there appear to be all intermediate states. The sjwridia are 

 collected into little heaps separated by a few greyish j?occi, but not 

 contained in dhimci peridiola as in the following genus. 



2. S. Bovista, Fr. {Bovista-like Scleroderma) ; snbsessile 

 irregular, peridiiim thin soft bursting- irregularly, bark sub- 

 deciduous, flocci yellow, sporidia olivaceous dingy-brown. Fr. 

 Syst. Myc. V. 3. p. 48 — Lye. defossum, Batsch, Cont. 2.f. 229. — 

 Ijycoperdastrum cmtiimnale Jlavescens, &)C, Mich. t. 99.^1 2. — b. 

 cepceforme ; smaller. 



In open and, especially, sandy plains. — b. Scotland. Klotzsch, in 

 Hook. Herb. — There appears to me some difficulty about this species, 

 as the Lye. aurantiaeum. Sow., now before me, though scaly and fur- 

 nished with a thick rigid peridiuyn, has abundant yeWowJioeci, and, as 

 far as I can judge from very old specimens, subolivaceous sporidia. 

 Klotzsch's specimens exactly resemble the smaller form of the foregoing 

 species, except in the colour of the sporidia and flocci. 



3. S. verrueoswn, Bull, (luarty Scleroderma) ; substipitate, 

 peridium rounded subverrucose thin and brittle above, pulp 

 black-purple, flocci and sporidia brown. Pers. Syn. p. 154. 

 Grev. Sc. Crypt. FL t. 48. Fl. Ed. p. Ahl , Fr. Syst. Myc. 

 v. 3. p. 49. — L. verrucosum, Bull. t. 24. With. v. 4. p. 348. 

 — Z. defossum, Sow. t.QU. With. v. 4. p. 350. Purt. v. 2 4- 3. 

 n. 1071.^. 19./. 2. 



Woods and hedgebanks on a loose soil. Common. — Stem thick, 

 lacunose, 



78. PoLYsAccuM. Desportes. Polysaccum. 



Common peridium naked, cellular within. Heaps of sporidia 

 surrounded by generally amorphous peridiola. — Name, 'TroAvg, 

 9ncmy, and (fc/y.y(c;, a sack. 



1. P. olivdceu?n, Fr. {olive Polysaccum') ; peridium subrotund 

 olive as well as the minute regular peridiola ; stem attenuated 

 downwards prsemorse nearly rootless. Fr. Syst. 3Iyc, v. 3. 

 p. 54. — Lye. capsuliferumy Sow. t. 424. 



On the ground. Highgate Hill. Mr. Jackson.— Ov\y one specimen 

 appears to have been met with, and this I cannot find in Sowerby's 

 Herbarium, and am therefore unable to add any thing to the account 

 ^iven by Fries. 



79. Elapkomyces. Necs. Elaphomyces. 



Peridium furnished with a warty bark, not bursting spon- 

 taneously, divided Avithin by intersecting veins into little 

 chambers. — Name, O.a^po^y a stag, and (roy^r^;, 2i fungus. 



1. E. granuldtus. Alb. & Schw. {grayudated Elaphomyces) ; 

 . rounded unequal papilloso-verrucose, sporidia black. Fr. Syst. 



