54 GLISCHRODEEMA. SPHAEROBOLUS 



Glischroderma (Fuck.) Rea. 

 (7X10-^/309, clammy; Sep/j.a, skin.) 

 With the same characters as the family. 



86. G. cinctum (Fuck.) Eea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. iv, t. 2. 



Cinctum, girdled. 



Pe. 5-15 mm., pale grey, becoming darker with age, globose, slightly 

 sticky, then scurfy, dehiscing by a well-defined apical pore which 

 becomes larger, seated on a ring-like mass of white mycelium -5-2 mm. 

 wide at the base. Spores pale pink, minutely warted, showing 4-5 

 warts in a row across the hemisphere, globose, 4/z.. Capillitium 

 hyaline, thick walled, septate, 5-10//, in diam., attached to the inner 

 wall of the peridium. Charcoal heaps in woods. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



SPHAEROBOLACEAE. 



Peridium subglobose, sessile ; exoperidium consisting of three layers, 

 an outer gelatinous layer, a middle pseudo-parenchymatous layer, and 

 an inner fibrous layer, splitting in a star-like manner into pointed 

 lobes when mature. Gleba consisting of a peripheral layer of upright 

 palisade cells and a central fertile portion, finally becoming slimy and 

 ejecting the whole mass. Basidia pear-shaped bearing 5-8, sessile 

 spores. Spores white, elhptical, or oblong elliptical, smooth. Growing 

 on wood and leaves. 



Sphaerobolus (Tode) Pers. 



(o-(j>aipa, a ball ; ySdXo?, a throw.) 

 With the same characters as the family. 



87. S. stellatus (Tode) Pers. Berk. Outl. Brit. Fung. t. 21, fig. 2. 



Stellatus, set with stars. 



Pe. 2 mm, high and broad, whitish, or pale yellow, globose, then oval, 

 seated on an arachnoid mycelium, splitting above in a stellate manner 

 into 6-8, acute teeth, tomentose, then smooth. Gleba at first whitish 

 and transparent, then brown, broadly elliptical. Spores white, broadly 

 elliptical, 10-11 x 5-6 ft. Crowded. On wood, twigs, sawdust, and 

 leaves. Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



88. S. dentatus (With.) W. G. Sm. (= Sphaerobolus stellatus (Tode) 



Pers. sec. Lloyd.) Dentatus, toothed. 



Pe. 1-5 mm., pale livid buff, to vinous brownish, pale brown, or brown, 

 springing from scanty brownish mycelium, finely pilose with erect 

 hairs, opening above in a 4 7-stellate manner, the rays clad with long, 

 white hairs, which at first converge over the opening, white, ivory, 

 white-greysih, or faint olive ivory inside, ejecting a reddish brown gleba. 

 Scattered. Dead elder. Aug. Rare. 



