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falling away; endoperidium 1-2-5 cm., brown, or lead colour, sub- 

 globose, mealy, attenuated into the stem and striate at the base. 

 Peristome prominent, long, conical, deeply sulcate, apex fimbriate. 

 Stem 6-8 x 2-3 mm., whitish, or concolorous, cylindrical. Spores 

 blackish umber, verrucose, globose, 4-6/u,. Columella thick, half as 

 high as the endoperidium. Capillitium brown, fusiform, simple, 47 p, 

 in diam. Pine woods and under conifers. Rare. 



57. G. Berkeley! Massee. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 18, as Geaster 



asper Lloyd. 



Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley, the father of British mycology. 

 Exoperidium 6-9 cm., ochraceous, then brownish, globose, splitting 

 up into 7-9, unequal, acute lobes, divided to the middle, expanded, 

 then slightly recurved, hard, firm, brown inside, becoming slightly 

 cracked, even; endoperidium 2-3 cm., brown, becoming paler, broadly 

 ovate, coarsely papillose, or granular, pedicellate. Peristome long, 

 prominent, conical, sulcato-striate, surrounded by a smooth, depressed, 

 silky zone. Stem 3-5 x 6-8 mm., pale, compressed. Spores umber, 

 acutely warted, globose, 5-6 /A. Columella globose, short. Capillitium 

 brown, cylindrical, 9-lOju, in diam. Under trees and amongst fir 

 leaves. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



ffEndoperidium sessile. 



58. G. umbilicatus Fr. (= Geaster striatus DC. ex W. G. Smith, 



Grevillea, n, t. 16, fig. 1, sec. Hollos, Geaster Smithii Lloyd.) 



Umbilicatus, having a navel. 



Exoperidium 2-4 cm., whitish, or tan colour, then brown, globose, 

 splitting into 412, unequal lobes, divided almost to the middle, con- 

 vex at the base and reflexed, the tips incurved when dry, the outer 

 mycelial layer thin, usually adnate with adhering sand, the inner fleshy 

 layer brownish, adnate, thin when dry; endoperidium 5-15 mm., 

 whitish grey, opaque, roundish, or oval, sessile, appearing slightly 

 pedicellate when dried. Peristome flattened (or when old conical), 

 seated on a depressed area, regularly sulcato-striate. Spores blackish 

 fuscous, slightly verrucose, apiculate, globose, 4-6/z. Capillitium 

 4-6/x in diam. Sandy places and coniferous woods. Nov. Rare. 



**Peristome not sulcate. 

 fEndoperidium stipitate. 



59. G. limbatus Fr. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 18. 



Limbatus, fringed. 



Exoperidium 3-5-9 cm., blackish, or dark brown, globose, splitting 

 into 7-10, unequal, acute lobes, divided nearly to the middle, ex- 

 panded, or recurved, leathery, flexible, fibrillose, dark brown, or grey 



