22 LYSTJRUS. ASEROE 



Lysurus Fr. 

 (\vrt9, loosing; ovpd, tail.) 



Peridium globose, becoming torn at the apex into irregular lobes. 

 Receptacle stipitate, dividing at the apex into free arms, or lobes, 

 distinct from the stem, bearing the mucilaginous gleba. Basidia 

 with 4-6, sessile, or subsessile, cylindrical, or oblong, coloured spores. 

 Growing on the ground. 



2. L. australiensis Cke. & Mass. (= Lysurus borealis (Burt) P. Henn. 1 ) 



Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 3. 



Australiensis, belonging to Australia. 



Volva 4-5 cm., white, globose, becoming torn above into irregular 

 lobes, attached to the soil around the base by numerous white, cord- 

 like mycelial strands. Receptacle 6x2 cm., whitish, cylindrical, 

 attenuated at the base, hollow, cellular, dividing at the apex into 

 six arms. Arms deep reddish brown, mucilaginous on the inside, 

 15-20 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide at the base, attenuated at the apex, 

 with a longitudinal groove down the centre and transversely ribbed, 

 not cellular, differing in texture from the receptacle, erect, slightly 

 incurved at the apex. Spores reddish brown, oblong elliptical, 

 3 x 1-5 fj,. Pasture where refuse of sacks had been emptied out, and 

 amongst stable refuse. Sept. Nov. Rare, (v.v.) 



Aseroe La Billard. 

 (acrr/pos, disgusting.) 



Peridium globose, becoming torn at the apex into irregular lobes. 

 Receptacle stipitate, crowned at the apex by a disc, from which the 

 arms radiate; arms covered with the gleba. Growing on the ground. 



3. A. rubra La Billard. Engl. & Prantl. Nat. Pflanz. Fam. i**, t. 137, 



figs. A C. Rubra, red. 



Receptacle stipitate, red, or pale rose, sheathed by the volva at the 

 base, pervious at the apex, which is expanded into a bright red disc, 

 furnished at the margin with from five to eight bifid rays. Spores 

 "hyaline, oblong, 6-10 x l'5-2ju." Petch. On soil brought from 

 Australia. Rare. 



PHALLACEAE. 



Receptacle hollow, cylindrical, or fusiform, with, or without, a 

 campanulate pileus at the apex. Gleba external. 



1 Recorded as a distinct British species by Wakefield in Kew Bulletin of 

 Miscel. Inf. no. 7 (1918), 231. 



