278 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. [Proc. ^d Ser. 



from the herbarium of Vittadini is in possession of the 

 writer. A spore from this specimen is represented in fig. 

 25, and agrees in outHne with that figured by Tul. in Fungi 

 Hypo., Plate XV, fig, 3. 



100. Terfezia Zeynebiae, sp. no v. 



Plate XLV, Fig. 26. 



Large, globose, 4 cm. in diam., color white, turning brown; gleba citrine 

 when dried; asci subspherical, 8-spored, 36 x 40 /z (briefly pedicellate) ; spores 

 with spine-like projections, 15 to 18 /^ in diam. 



Type, No. 212, Harkness Coll. 



The valley of the Tigris, Arabia. This fungus was sent 

 to me some years ago by the American Consul at Bagdad. 



Named in honor of Zeyneb of the Arabian Nights. 



T. ZeynehicR is found in clusters in the alluvial soil of the 

 valley and is readily discovered owing to the fact that slight 

 fissures are to be seen in the overlying earth. The fungus 

 is greatly esteemed as an article of food and is sold in large 

 quantities in the markets of Bagdad. 



The spine-like projections are short and blunt, generally 

 some little distance apart, about 16 projections appearing 

 on the circumference. 



Chatin in La Truffe, page 78, describes two species from 

 Mesopotamia, T. Hafizi and T. Metaxasi. The first, T. 

 Hafizi, is figured by the author (Plate XV, fig. i) as being 

 rugose and destitute of spines. Paoletti in Saccardo's 

 Sylloge Fungorum, Vol. XI, p. 445, refers to the same as 

 possessing a reticulate spore, 18 x 20 /i. 



T. Metaxasi, shown in plate XIII, fig. 2, Ibid., has a 

 much larger spore with a very large increase in the number 

 of its spines. 



Terfeziopsis, gen. nov. 



Ascomata smooth, globose or pyriform; gleba veinless, firm; asci globose 

 or ellipsoidal, 2-4-spored; spores globose or ovoid, echinate; spines recurved 

 or hooked. 



This fungus is nearly allied to Terfezia, but is separated 

 from Terfezia because of the form of its spore. 



