GEASTEB 43 



recurved, becoming incurved when dry, soft, flaccid, densely floccose 

 outside, becoming smooth; inside fleshy layer thin, adnate; endo- 

 peridium 1-1-5 cm., yellowish, globose, sessile, smooth. Mouth acute, 

 silky, surrounded by a broad, depressed zone. Spores minutely verru- 

 cose, globose, 3-4/A. Capillitium light brown, 45/i in diam. Sandy 

 ground in hedgerows. Aug. Rare. 



/3. Unexpanded plants ovate acuminate. 



63. G. lageniformis Vitt. Grevillea, n, t. 14, fig. 1. 



\dyrjvos, a flagon ; forma, shape. 



Exoperidium 4-8 cm., yellowish, ovate acuminate, splitting into 

 6-9, very long, pointed, nearly equal lobes, divided beyond the 

 middle, usually saccate but also recurved, with whitish mycelial 

 strands at the base, the mycelial layer closely adnate, often separating 

 and splitting into parallel lines; ochraceous inside, becoming brown, 

 fleshy layer soft, disappearing; endoperidium 1-2-5 cm., ochraceous, 

 or brownish, subglobose, sessile, soft, membranaceous. Mouth piano- 

 conic, silky, striate, surrounded by an orbicular silky zone. Spores 

 yellowish brown, minutely verrucose, globose, 3-4/i. Columella 

 small, clavate. Capillitium pale brownish, fusiform, simple, or slightly 

 branched towards the ends, 6-8/z in diam. Sandy soil. Woods 

 and hedgerows. April Nov. Rare, (v.v.) 



64. G. triplex Jungh. (= Geaster Michelianus W. G. Sm.) Lloyd, 



The Geastrae, figs. 47-49. Triplex, three-fold. 



Exoperidium 510 cm., brownish olivaceous, ovate-acuminate, split- 

 ting into 4-7, subequal, broad, acute lobes, divided to the middle, 

 often much cracked up into areolae on the outside', brownish inside, 

 fleshy layer very thick, cracking and peeling off with the exception 

 of a disc-like portion which forms a cup at the base of the endoperidium ; 

 endoperidium 1-5-3-5 cm., pale brownish, subglobose, compressed, 

 sessile, membranaceous. Mouth paler, broadly conical, fibrillose. 

 Spores brown, verrucose, globose, 4-5/x,. Columella pale brown, 

 clavate, long. Capillitium light brown, simple, fusiform, 6-7 //, in 

 diam. Woods and pastures. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



tttEndoperidium sessile, or substipitate. 



65. G. rufescens Pers. Fr. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 19. 



Rufescens, becoming reddish. 



Exoperidium 4-8 cm., yellowish, globose, splitting into 6-10, broad, 

 acute lobes, divided to the middle or beyond, expanded, then re- 

 curved, rigid, thick, firm; ochraceous inside, becoming rufescent, fleshy 

 layer thick, soon cracking, and often peeling off; endoperidium 

 1-5-3 cm., yellowish, or pale brownish, globose, or subovate, sessile 

 or substipitate. Mouth fibrillose, indefinite, frequently torn. Spores 



