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diaphragm. Gleba white, then yellowish, and finally olivaceous, com- 

 pact. Sterile base, thick, persistent, forming nearly half the peridium, 

 separated from the fertile portion by a distinct, membranaceous dia- 

 phragm. Spores dark olivaceous, globose, rarely very shortly pedi- 

 cellate, 4 5/A. Capillitium yellowish, very long, flexuose, branched, 

 brittle, 6-7 /z in diam. Edible. Woods, heaths and pastures. May 

 Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



32. L. saccatum (Vahl.) Fr. Krombh. Icon. t. 30, figs. 11-12. 



<ra#/eo<?, a bag. 



Pe. 7-18 cm. high, 3-12 cm. wide, whitish, or greyish, becoming 

 tinged brownish with age, clavate, or pestle-like, rounded above, 

 obtuse, plicato-lacunose below and continued into a long stem-like 

 base, 2-5-6 cm. wide, cylindrical, or subventricose, often scrobiculate, 

 exoperidium consisting of small fugacious, spinulose warts, and 

 granules which soon disappear from the upper portion the warts 

 split at the base and coalesce in a fine point at the apex; endo- 

 peridium concolorous, very thin, fragile, falling away in patches. 

 Gleba white, then yellow, and finally olivaceous, compact. Sterile base 

 reaching to the apex of the stem-like portion of the peridium, convex, 

 cellular, firm. Spores olivaceous, verrucose, globose, 4-5fi. Capil- 

 litium pale yellowish, very long, branched, 3-5/x. in diam. Edible. 

 Woods, heaths and pastures. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



33. L. excipuliforme (Scop.) Pers. Fr. Sverig. Svamp. t. 73. 



Excipula, a vessel ; forma, shape. 



Pe. 5-13 cm. high, 411 cm. wide, greyish, becoming tinged with 

 yellow or brown, globose, often compressed, plicate on the underside 

 and continued into a short, or fairly long, stout, broad, stem-like 

 base; exoperidium consisting of long, delicate, floccose spines, 

 separate at their base but confluent at their apices, becoming smaller 

 downwards, wearing away with age and weathering; endoperidium 

 floccose, thick, firm, only gradually wearing away and disappearing 

 in the upper portion. Gleba white, then yellowish, and finally brown- 

 ish olivaceous. Sterile base whitish, becoming yellowish or greenish, 

 cellular, concave, extending to the apex of the stem-like base of the 

 peridium. Spores fuscous olivaceous, echinulate, globose, 3-5jU,. 

 Capillitium olivaceous, becoming hyaline, flexuose, rarely branched, 

 3-5/u, in diam. Edible. Woods and pastures. April Nov. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. flavescens Quel. Flavescens, becoming yellowish. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size, its club-shaped peridium 

 and its brighter yellow colour. Heaths and pastures. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



