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manner; exoperidium thin, brittle, breaking up into fugacious 

 granules; endoperidium yellowish, becoming brownish, firm, hard, and 

 finally breaking away from the stem-like base, dehiscing by the 

 falling away of portions from the base upwards. Stem-like base 

 4-15 x 1-5-5 cm., whitish, then concolorous, torn up into revolute, 

 squarrose fibrils, and finally breaking away from the peridium at 

 maturity and exposing the rusty brown gleba. Spores rusty brown, 

 coarsely warted, globose, often shortly pedicellate, 6-8 /A; basidia 

 1-3-spored. Capillitium almost colourless, rarely branched or sep- 

 tate, 8-lOfj, in diam. Amongst rotten leaves, and spent tan. Sept. 

 Eare. (v.v.) 



Battarrea Pers. 

 (J. A. Battarra, author of Fungorum Agri Ariminensis Historia.) 



Peridium globose, exoperidium becoming irregularly torn at the 

 apex, leaving a volva-like basal portion; stem elongated, hollow, be- 

 coming torn into fibrous scales; endoperidium hemispherical, plane, 

 or concave underneath, dehiscent by a circular fissure beneath the 

 margin, the upper part coming off like a lid. Capillitium of simple, 

 or branched threads, with spiral, or annular thickenings. Spores 

 coloured, globose, verrucose. Subterranean, then superficial. 



85. B. phalloides (Dicks.) Pers. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 390, as Lyco- 

 perdon phalloides Dicks. <f)a\\ds, penis; elSo?, like. 



Volva 2-4 cm., white outside, parchment-like, pitted, filled when 

 young with colourless mucus, globose, splitting above into four or 

 five more or less pointed lobes, rust colour inside, fibrous, woody, 

 often fringed. Stem 10-30 x -5-2 cm., rusty brown, attenuated at 

 both ends, slightly ventricose in the middle, woody, firm, covered 

 with long, twisted fibres, whitish inside, and stuffed with long, trans- 

 parent threads. Inner peridium rusty brown, campanulate, some- 

 what flattened, fibrous, splitting horizontally and filled with the 

 yellowish brown Capillitium and spores. Spores rust colour, obtusely 

 verrucose, globose, often with a hyaline apiculus, Q/JL. Capillitium 

 threads pale rust colour, 63-80 x 8/1,, with spiral thickenings. Sandy 

 places, and in hollow trees. Sept. Dec. Rare, (v.v.) 



GrLISCHRODERMATACEAE. 



Peridium globose, consisting of a single layer, seated on a ring-like 

 of mycelium surrounding the sessile base, dehiscing by a weli- 

 lefined apical aperture. Capillitium attached to the inner wall of 

 peridium. Spores coloured, globose, minutely warted. Super- 

 3ial. 



