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98. Choiromyces gangliformis Vilt. 



Choirouiyces gangliformis Vitt., Monog. Tub., p. 51, Tal>. II, Fig. 2. 



Globosus, levis, fuscus; gleba albida, exiccatione vix mutata, gruinoso- 

 compacta, venis numerosissimis, interrupts, decolorantibus, mirabiliter anas- 

 tomosantibus et areolas hinc illinc albas filisque minimis concoloribusque 

 varie junctas, gangliformes, inter se relinquentibus; sporidiis sphaericis, verru- 

 cis conicis elongatis asperatis. (Paoletti in Sacc. Sylloge Fung., Vol. VIII, 

 1889, p. 901.) 



No. 151, Harkness Coll. 



Under Arctostaphylos, Calistoga, Napa County, Calif., 

 April. 



Terfezia Tul. 



Terfezia Tul., Fungi Hypo., p. 172, Tab. VI, Fig. 4; Tab. VII, Fig. 5; 

 Tab. XV, Figs. 3-5; et Tab. XXI, Fig. 15. 



Integumentum crassum v. tenue, carnosum, clausum continuum v. hinc et 

 illinc parce rimosum, leve, nonnunquam fibrillosum, in cuticula; sorte qua 

 tegitur primo albidum deinque plus minus et insequaliter fucatum. Moles 

 interior carnosa solida, sell, lacunis destituta, initio pallida et quasi similaris, 

 matura uvida, molliuscula, in massulas s. glebulas rotundatas, rarius diversi- 

 formes, carnoso-humidas v. pulposas, fertiles et varie coloratas divisa, paren- 

 chymate sterili interposito laxiori serifero pallido maculas que irregulares 

 (areolas) s. venarum species in fungo secto fingente. Sporangia late elliptica 

 V. globosa, utriculis genitivis imposita et in glebulis veluti inordinate creber- 

 rima nidulantia, octospora. Sporte sphserica; initio conglobatce et leves, 

 maturae libera; echinatie (aliquando insuper reticulatje) diluteque coloratce; 

 nucleo tandem oleoso. 



99. Terfezia spinosa, sp. no v. 



Plate XLV, Figs. 2i^a-2\b. 



Terfezia leonis Langlois in Ellis' Centuries, No. I7«2. 



Globose, white or citron, smooth; gleba variegated; asci subrotund or 

 briefly elongate, 6-8-spored; spores globose, seldom ellipsoidal, 15-20 /z in 

 diam. 



Type, No. io8a, Harkness Coll. 



Red River Valley, Louisiana. 



The spores are furnished with large projections (onlv 

 about twenty being found upon the periphera of each), 

 which are slightly curved, somewhat blunt at the point, 

 and confluent at the base. 



As will be observed, there is a marked dissimilarity be- 

 tween this species and T. leonis, a specimen of which 



