SPECIMENS IN OUR COLLECTION. 



Grantvitte, Australia, J. T. Paul. 

 Andovcr, Nav Zealand, Robert Brown. 



BOVISTELLA SCABRA (Plate 70). Plant with a well de- 

 veloped sterile base of large cells. Cortex of well developed short, 

 scabrous, connivent spines. Gleba olive umber. Capillitium of the 

 Lycoperdon type of long, branched, intertwined, attached threads. 

 Spores globose, 4-5 mic., smooth, with slender pedicels. This plant is 

 known only from Australia. It has the general size, appearance and 

 structure of Bovistella australiana, and differs only in the cortex. 



SPECIMENS IN OUR COLLECTION. 

 Australia, J. G. O. Teppcr. F. M. Reader. J. T. Paul. 



BOVISTELLA GLABESCEXS. Plant with a well developed 

 sterile base of small cells. Smooth now, but probably had a prominent 

 cortex. Gleba olive umber. Capillitium long, intertwined threads. 

 Spores globose, 5 mic., smooth, with slender pedicels. 



There is one collection at Kew from Tasmania. We have not re- 

 ceived the plant from any of our correspondents. 



The previous species of this section have relatively short spore pedicels, 

 10-12 mic. long, the usual length of Bovistella pedicels. The three following 

 species have pedicels excessively long, 16-24 mic. and are easily known from 

 this character. 



BOVISTELLA MIYABEI (Plate 88). Peridium oval-glob. ^-. 

 Cortex of short spines somewhat gemmate in its nature, falling away 

 and leaving the denuded surface reticulate, pitted. Sterile basr of larsj:? 

 cells, occupying about one third the interior. Gleba olive. Capillitium 

 deeply colored, long, intertwined threads. Spores globose, smooth, 4 

 mic. with very long, hyaline pedicels (20 mic.). 



This species is very close to Bovistella pedicellata, but differs inj 

 its cortex and pitted surface of the peridium. We received the speci- 

 men from Mr. K. Miyabe, Japan, for whom we have the pleasure of 

 naming it. 



SPECIMENS IN OUR COLLECTION. 

 Japan, K. Miyabe. 



BOVISTELLA PEDICELLATA (Plate 88). Peridium globoscl 

 or piriform. Cortex of long, rather stiff spines, resembling in nature 

 the cortex of Lycoperdon echinatum, but not so long. Falling away 

 and leaving the peridium smooth. Gleba olive or brown. Sterile base 

 of large cells, filling one quarter to one third of the interior, sometime 

 almost absent. Capillitium deeply colored, long, intertwined threads. 

 Spores globose or slightly oval, smooth, 4-5 mic. with very long, hva- 

 Ime pedicels (20-24 mic.). 



This species is rather a rare plant ip the United States and of a 



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