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89. S. terrestris (A. & S. non Tode) W. G-. Sm. Brit. Basidiomyc. 



fig. 139. Terrestris, pertaining to the earth. 



Pe. -5-2 mm., saffron yellow, or sienna, at first hemispherical, 

 urceolato-ventricose, seated on a dense tomentose subiculum of buff 

 white, here and there brownish, mycelium. Gleba concolorous, solitary, 

 spherical. Spores white, elliptic-oblong, 10-12 x 5-6/A. Crowded, in 

 troops. Eotten wood, and running over leaves. March Nov. Rare. 

 (v.v.) 

 Thekbolus Tode = A genus of the Ascobolaceae. 



AGARICALES. 



Hymenium strictly defined from the first, covering the exterior of 

 gills, or lining the interior of fleshy tubes, or pores, or spreading over 

 a smooth surface; at first protected by the universal, or partial veil 

 (the volva, or ring), then finally, at maturity, fully exposed. 



AGARICINEAE. 



Hymenium inseparable from the pileus and spread over the surface 

 of gills radiating from a stem, or central point. Receptacle fleshy, 

 membranaceous, or coriaceous, fragile, firm, or tough, putrescent, or 

 not putrescent, reviving with moisture or not, and sometimes con- 

 taining lacticiferous vessels; consisting of a pileus with, or without, 

 a central or lateral stem, and sometimes with a volva or a ring, and 

 broad gills acute at the margin. Growing on the ground, or on wood. 



AGARIC ACE AE. 

 Same characters as the suborder. 



I. Receptacle fleshy, trama not vesiculose, nor traversed by lacti- 

 ciferous vessels, not membranaceous, not rapidly putrescent, nor 

 tough and woody. 



A. Pileus distinct, and easily separable from the fleshy stem. 

 * Without a ring, or a volva. 

 Spores white. 



Schulzeria Bres. 



(Stephan Schulzer.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular; margin at first incurved. Stem central. 

 Gills free from the stem. Spores white, oval, or clavate, wall con- 

 tinuous. Growing on the ground. 



90. S. lycoperdoides Cke. & Massee. 



Lycoperdon eISo9, resembling a Lycoperdon. 



P. 3-4 cm., tan coloured, beset with darker pyramidal warts re- 

 sembling those of some species of Lycoperdon, and often splitting at the 



