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Genus 73. Sph-erobolus.* Tode. 

 Peridium double ; the inner at length inverted elastically, and 

 ejecting a solitary globose sporangium. 



1. Sphferobolus stellatus, Tode. B., p. 21, f. 2. Sow., t. 22. 

 Grev., iii., 158. Not uncommon on decaying wood, &c. A 

 good account of this plant will be found in " Greville'a Scotch 

 Cryptogamic Flora," vol. iii., p. 158. 

 The only British species. 



Genus 74. PoLTANGiUM.t Lk. 

 Peridium sub-hemispherical, hyaline ; sporangiola large in pro- 

 portion, grumous within. 



1. Polyangium vitellinum, Ditmar in Sturm., t. 27. It has not 

 occui-red in the Bath district. This production has been retained 

 amongst the fungi in the " Outlines," but Corda supposes it to be 

 merely the eggs of some insect, and Ditmar's figure gives the same" 

 impression. 



In concluding this portion of the Notices of Fungi occurring in 

 the Bath District, it will only be necessary to give the following 

 summary of the results. Out of 22 genera which constitute the 

 family of British Gasteromycetes (rejecting the order of Myxo- 

 gasters which it is proposed to treat of separately), we can lay claim 

 to 16, represented by 37 species; the number of British species 

 being 55. We therefore stand in the proportion of 16 to 22 in the 

 former, and 37 to 55 in the latter. From the paucity of species, 

 and the striking nature of their character, combined with the great 

 rarity of some among them, it is not probable that so much remains 

 to be done in the family in question as in Hymenomycetes and in 

 the subsequent families. There is, nevertheless, room left for the 

 exertions of local botanists, as several blanks remain to be filled up. 



• Sphjerobolus, from sphaira, a sphere, and ballo, to project, 

 t Polyangium, from polus, many, and aggeion, a receptacle. 



