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DR. F. WELW1TSCH AND MR. F. CURREY'S FUNGI ANGOLENSES. 287 



Obs. A single specimen, gathered in fine weather. This species is manifestly nearlj 

 allied to Laternea columnata, Bosc, bnt differs in the colour, and apparently also in tin 

 form of the ramifications of the receptacle, as well as in the smell (not fetid) of the stratum 



mucosum. 



Lysttrtts corallocephalus, "Welw. & Curr. JJtero ovoideo, basi fibris albicantibu- 



stipitato ; strato gelatinoso crasso, distento, stipite increscente irregulariter deliis- 

 cente, cxtus ex albido cinerascente, intns albido laevigato; stipite cylindrico, eavo, 

 albo, spongioso, poroso-reticulato, fragili, apice membrana carnoso-spon -iosa coccinoa 

 rngnlosa oblique clauso, duabus tribusve foraminibus parvis subcircularibus excen- 

 tricis relictis. Hac ex membrana ramenta crebra complanata transverse rugulosa 

 divaricatim dichotoma ramosa undique surgunt, ex basi ad medium usque circa- 

 circum strato mucoso viscido foetido tecta, apicibus belle coccineis, varie ilexis, 

 emersis, nudis, coralliformibus, cito collabentibus. 



Hab. Inter Zees Maydis plantation es, solo arenoso-argillaceo humidiusculo, tempore sereno, 3 dies post 

 p]uvias frequentes, itaque nee coelo tonante, nascens, in Prasidio, Pungo Andongo, unicum spe- 

 cimen, Dec. 10, 1856. No. 119. 



Tab. 17. fig. 8, plant, of the natural size, after a sketch taken on the spot. 



Obs. The coral-like ramifications become much contracted in drying. This plant is 

 more nearly allied to Lysurus than Aseroe, although it differs from the species of Lyswru* 

 hitherto described in having a perforated membrane. It may be doubtful whether there 

 is any substantial difference between the genera Lysurus and Aseroe. It would seen 

 from this specimen, that in Lysurus the apex of the receptacle is not always entirely 

 closed. The perforations of the membrane do not afford a sufficiently marked character 

 for the formation of a new genus. 



NIDULABIACEI, Fr. 



Cyathus striatus, Hoffm 



Hab 



to 



putrescent in silvis primit.vis hnmidis prope Pr. idiom Pungo And™,,,. 



Ad ramulos dejeetos inter folia pntreseenna m apne.s eulfs neglect, 



Pebruario 1857 : No. 113. Ad ramulos dejeetos inter iona F»»~~~- .~ ' 

 prope Sansamanda ad ripas numinis Cuansa, Pnngo Andongo, Mart.o l»o7 : »»• • 



LYCOPERDACEI, Fr. 



Geaster fimbriatus, Fr 



No. 108. 



Hi 



G 



4 a oir* TsTfit <;rr iv. voL iii- P* 139 



mtABiLis, Mont. Sylloge, p. 286; Ann. d. Sc. Bat. Ber. ^ , 



t. 6. f. 8. Spori. minutissimis, vix 0-0001 nnc. supcnmtibus, sub mtcroscop.o pel 

 lucidis. 



• -i :. ^mitivis de Quisucnla et prope Cascngue, Golnngo 

 Hab. Earissimns, ad tnmcos pntrescentes in silvis primu Le ,,ricur ad Cavcnnam 



alto. MK at An.usto 1850. No. 107. Primum in Guyana Galhca . L I 



alto, Aprili ct Augus 

 observatus. 



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