BY LEONARD RoDWAY, GOVERNMENT BOTANIST. 81 



above. Gleba pale brown, the tramal plates thin, radiate 

 ing, and very distorted. Basidia clavate, tetrasporous. 

 iS pores brown, smooth, elliptic apiculate at one end, 7x4 

 micron. 



SECOTIUM RODWAYI, .Mass. 



('•Kew Bulletin,' Sept., 1901.) 



Subglobose, fleshy, cream-coloured, smooth or tomen- 

 tose deeply excavated below. Stem vei'y short, usually 

 piercing the gleba to the apex, where it is continuous with 

 the thin peridium, in some specimens much reduced above. 

 Gleba rather dense, pale cream-coloured. Cystidia and 

 Basidia pyrifcrm about the same size. Spores globose, 

 colourless, verruculcse, 7-8 micron. 



SECOTIUM SESSILE, Mass. et Eod. 



("Kew Bulletin.") 



Subglobose, 2-3 cm. diameter, pure white, and delicate. 

 Peridium very thin. Stem short, usvially vanishing in the 

 gleba. Cystidia fusiform, much exceeding the basidia. 

 Spores globose, colourless, minutely verrviculose, 7-8 micron. 



