every way larger plant, with very erect, broom-like ramification 

 and branchlets, a longer and more basally tapering fruit-recep- 

 tacle, coarser and more persistent pencils of filaments, and a 

 larger root-bulb. The lower part of the stem, for a considerable 

 distance above the base, is, in old specimens particularly, clothed 

 with short pubescence. On the whole, the general aspect and 

 these particular differences serve to distinguish our plant from 

 S. radiciformis. To none other of the genus is it particularly 

 near. Its appearance and rigid substance rather recall Carpo- 

 mitra inermis than any Spo?'oc/mus. 



Fig. 1. Sporochnus scoparius, — the natural size. 2. Fragment of a branch. 

 3. lleceptacles, of different ages : — magnijied. 



