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RHIZOPOGON, TULASNE. 



Peridiuin thick and persistent or thin and disappearing 

 with strands of mycelium traversing; its surface. Cavities 

 distinct at first empty, spores smooth. 



ritbesceiis, red externally. 



Inteolus, v/hile, then Irownish-olive. 



Rhizopogoii Inteolus, Tulanuc. Irregularly globose, 2-6 

 cm. diameter; peridium ochre- yellow, very thin. Gleba 

 rather dense, at first pale, smoky, then dark ochre-brown, or 

 greenish. Tubes contorted up to 300m diameter. Spores 

 oblong, obtuse, smooth, pale olive. 8 x 2a* 



Sandy Bay, beneath Pines. Snug Falls track, wilh no 

 conifers near. Collected in Victoria. Common in Northern 

 Hemisphere. 



Rhizopofjon rufescens, Ti(l(i^-)ic. Subglobose, 2-4 cm. 



diameter, red-brown; peridium thin, marked with mycelial 

 strands. Gleba white, becoming yellowish with age, some- 

 times brown when very old, dense, canals minute. S)iores 

 narrow oblong, hyaline, or slightly tinted, 11 x 4"- 



Common under Pines. Cosmopolitan. 



HYSTERANGIUM, VITTADINI. 



Peridium distinct, separable; gleba at first mucilaginous, 

 becoming gelatinous, cavities at first empty: spores smooth. 



affinc, gleba greenish-blue. 



hiirbi(riannv>, gleba brownish-green. 



]»imUum, dwarf gleba ochraceous. 



rhcidum, surface red-brown, viscid. 



iifrattivi, surface pale purple, viscid. 



)n f/lcciiini, peridium thick, fleshy brown, not viscid 



nhtiixum, peridium thick, violet, not viscid. 



rldthroidefi, waxy consistency throughout. 



inflatio)!, exospore inflated. 



nipmhranuceum, delicate white to pale brown, turning 

 indigo where bruised. 



jiisiy])(>)}ii))i, white, drying ochre, spores fusifoini. shin- 

 ing. 



HyHterniifjiom tiffinc, Mctss rt Rod. Globose, seldom ex- 

 ceeding 1 cm. diameter. White to pale brown; peiidium 

 white, leathery, 1 mm. thick, readily scp; rating from the 



