162 HUNGAEIAN GEASTERS. 



This fungus was found by Schulzer in the neighbourhood of Vin 

 Kovire in the southern parts of the country, by Lojka, on Mount 

 Kralovo Hola, by Kalchbrenner, near Olaszi, by myself on the 

 meadows of the forest near Kesmark. 



G. fimbriatus CFr.j very much like the preceding, but its 

 mouth being but little raised, the lobes are rolled up semiglobu- 

 larly ; the inner peridium is also in this species sometimes pedicel- 

 late ; the pedicel, however, is very short, hardly perceptible. I 

 collected this fungus in the neighbourhood of Kesmark, in the 

 forest under the Tatna, and in the meadows therein. Lojka 

 found it on the Kralova Hola. 



G. Tufescens. fi^nj.— Outer peridium is rigid, pandiment- 

 shaped, and so on bursting the soily lobes spread horizontally. 

 The teeth of the peristome are twisted cylindrically. Spores 

 small, warty .0,004 millim. in diameter. Coloiir is variable. 

 In the pine forest of the Tatra I found quite white s]iecimens ; on 

 the mountains in the neighbourhood of Hertnek, County Saros, 

 one with a rose-coloured inner peridium ; by Kalchbrenner it was 

 found in the southern parts of the County Zips. 



G. cryptorhynchus. CSzs, Elclihr.j. — This remarkable Geaster 

 was found by Kalchbrenner in the neighbourhood of K. Olaszi, 

 and placed among the fungi as G. mammosus in Rbh. fung. eur. 

 n. 814. But G. mammosus, according to " Grevillea," vol. ii., p. 

 77, Plate xix., fig. 1, as well as Fuckl. symb., p. 36, being an 

 entirely different plant, I proposed the name above. G. 

 cryptorhynchus is the greatest of our species of Geaster ; its ex- 

 panded outer peridium measuring .10-14 centimeters. The exterior 

 peridium split into .4-6 ovate long acuminate lacinise. The most 

 remarkable chnracteristic is the long thin beak of the peristome, 

 which breaks off when the outer peridium bursts, leaving behind a 

 short conical mouth on a radial-fibrous, impressed and strictly 

 confined orbicular basis (disc.) ; Plate 47, fig. 2, exhibits, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Kalchbrenner's communication, the vertical section of 

 the closed fungus ; fig. 3, the peristome with its beak ; fig. 4, the 

 breaking off of the beak ; fig. 6, the conical mouth, with its circular 

 radial-striate basis ; fig. 6, the developed fungus, with its starlike 

 expanded peridium ; fig. 7, rough spores x 400 ; fig. 8, spores still 

 further magnified. Fig. 1 represents the fungus natural size. 



Besides this form, where the interior fleshy layer sits on the 

 surface of the outer peridium in the shape of rags, there occur also 

 smaller forms of it, which to illusion resemble G. lageniformis, 

 *' Cooke's Handbook," fig. 113, and from this almost only by the 

 circular disc is distinguishable. In this last form the exterior 

 peridium is smooth on both sides, parchment-shaped ; outside of a 

 dirty yellow ; the upper part brown, spores finely aculeate, whilst 

 in its normal state they appear only to be verrucose ; diameter of 

 both, .0,004-0,006 millim. 



