292 OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUNGOLOGY. 



On pine-wood. Not common. East Bergliolt, Dr. Badham. 

 I have never been able to find asci in this plant, which I be- 

 lieve belongs to the Order Tremellini. 



Fam. II.— gasteromycetes. 



Hymenium more or less permanently concealed, consisting 

 in most cases of closely-packed cells, of which the fertile ones 

 bear naked spores on distinct spicules, exposed only by the 

 rupture or decay of the investing coat or peridium. 



Order 7. HYFOGJEL 



Hymenium permanent, not becoming dusty or deliquescent 

 except when decayed. Subterranean. 



53. OCTAVIANIA, Viti. 



Peridium continuous or cracked, cottony, running down 

 into the sterile base. Trama byssoid, easily divisible. Fruit- 

 bearing cavities or cells at first empty. Spores rough. 



1. O. asterosperma, Vitt. ; globose, dirty-white, then in 

 parts seruginous-blue and black ; sterile base rather thick ; 

 spores spherical, deep ferruginous, echinate. — Tul. t. 11. /. 1. 



Underground, adhering by the mycelium to twigs, etc. 

 Rare. West of England, C. E. B. 



2. O. Stephensii, Tul. ; irregular, oblong, externally ru- 

 fous, plicato-rugose at the base, cribrose, white within, milky, 

 at length, when exposed to the air, rufous; spores globose, 

 at length echinulate. — Hydnangium Stephensii, Berk. Ann. of 

 Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 352. 



Underground, or half-buried. Bristol, C. E. B. Smell 

 like that of Lactarius theiogalus. Adhering by branched 

 fibrous roots. 



