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BRITISH FUNGI. 

 By M. C. Cooke. 



G aster omycetes. 



Lycoperdon Hoylei. B. % Br. " Hoyle's Lycoperdon." 

 Peridiuni stipitate, subglobose, bristling with elongated rigid 

 brown warts, sterile base small, confluent with the capillitium, spores 

 globose, echinulate, lilac. — B. § Br., Ann. N. H., No. 1307. 

 On the ground.— Reading (Mr. Hoyle). Oct. 

 Stem 1 in. high, | in. thick, lacunose, olivaceous within ; peri- 

 dium 2 in. across ; warts 1^-2 lines high ; capillitium and spores 

 lilac ; spores -00015 in ; mycelium threadlike, white. 



Scleroderma geaster. Fr. " Stellate Scleroderma." 

 Sessile, sub-globose, growing pallid, peridium dehiscing at the 

 apex in stellate lacinire ; inner mass dirty purplish black ; spores 

 globose, verrucose. Fr. S. M., Hi., p. 46. B. 4' Br. Ann. N.H., 

 No. 1308. Seem. Joum.Bot. ix. t. 116, Trans. Woolh. Club, 187U, 

 p. 252, plate. Ly coper, rotunclum, $-c. Mich. t. 99,/. 1. 

 On the ground. Near Hereford (Dr. Bull). Oct. 



Geastex tunicatus. V'ttt. " Tunicated Geaster." 

 Outer peridium splitting to the middle in rather large lacinia?, 

 internal stratum thick, evanescent. Capitulum sessile ; peridium 

 flaccid, mouth minute, conico-fimbriate, circumscribed by a paler, 

 scarcely determinate zone ; columella with a long pedicel. — Vitt. 

 Hon. p. 18, t. 3, /. 3. B. 4' Br. Ann., N. H., No. 1306. Geaster 

 lageniformis, Cooke, Hclbk. No. 1079. 



Amongst Rhododendrons. 



Messrs. Berkeley and Broome seem to regard this as the correct 

 determination of the species described in Cooke's Handbook, No. 

 1079, under the name of Geaster lageniformis. Not having seen 

 specimens we accept their decision. 



Badhamia capsulifer. B. " Capsular Badhamia." 

 Peridium sessile or very shortly pedicellate, spherical, or ovoid, 

 bluish-black, or blue-grey, dehiscing irregularly, seated on a 

 whitish membrane ; spores globose, pale brown, endochrome 

 granular. Berk. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi., p. 154. SphcBrocarpus 

 capsulifer. Bull: t. 470, /. 2. Trichia capsulifera. D.C. Fl. Fr. 

 ii., 254. Physarum capsuliferum Chev. Par. i., p. 339. 



On living leaves of Tussilago petasites. Cheshire (T. Brittain.) 



Perichaena quercina. Fr. "Oak Perichaena." 

 Peridia globose, yellow ; somewhat lacerated, flocci and spores 



yellow.— Fr. S.M., in., 192. 



On oak trunks. Autumn. Rare. 



Detected by Mr. T. Brittain near Manchester, and determined by 



C. E. Broome, Esq., on whose authority it is inserted, as we have 



never seen specimens. 



