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Orton Wood, Leicester ! Castle Howard, Yorks ! Carlisle ! Appin, 

 N.B. !) ! France ! Germany ! Sweden ! Bohemia ! Belgium ! Italy ! 

 Finland ! Denmark ! United States ! Canada ! Chili ! Ceylon ! S. 

 Africa ! S.W. Australia ! Tasmania ! New Zealand ! 



In the form and colour of the sporangia, and in the colour of the 

 capillitium and spores, the present species varies considerably, the 

 constant characters are the fusiform elaters with flat bands and smooth 

 taperings tips, and the delicately warted spores. The plants vary 

 from 2-4 mm. in height, and the sporangia may be solitary on the 

 stem, or in fascicles of irom 2-7, in which case the common stem is 

 obviously composed of several stems more or less confluent, or entirely 

 welded together and often twisted. The elaters are in rare instances 

 branched towards the tips. I have had an opportunity of examining the 

 type specimen of Trichia lateritia, Lev., in the Herbarium of the 

 Paris Museum, and find that it agrees exactly in the elaters and 

 spores with Trichia fragilis ; the spores are certainly warted, quite 

 as much so as in T. fragilis, although under a quarter-inch objective 

 they would probably be described as smooth. Kostafinski does not 

 appear to have been acquainted with T. lateritia, or at all events, not 

 with the type specimen, as his description of the species is copied 

 from Leveille. The British specimen from Orton Wood, described by 

 Professor Balfour, has warted spores. 



The size of the warts on the spores varies in specimens from 

 diff'erent localities, and in some instances they are very minute, as in 

 No. 2097 of EUis and Everhart's N. American Funsi. 



(Kostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Lycoperdon homhacinum, Batsch, EL, p. 153 (1783). 



Stemoniiis hotrytis, Pers , in Gmel., Syst., 1468 (1791). 



Trichia hotrytis, Pers. Disp., t3. 9 (1797); Ic. Pict., t. 12, 

 f. 1, 2. 



Trichia hotrytis, jB minor, Pers. Disp., 54 (1797). 



Trichia serotina, Schrad., Journ., t, 3, f. 1 (1799); Eng. FL, v. 

 p. 310 ; Cooke, Hdbk., No. 1181. 



Sphserocarpus fragilis. Sow., t. 279 (1803). 



Trichia notata, Fl. Dan., 1680 (1823). 



Trichia hadia, Fr., Stirp. Femsj., 83 (1823). 



Trichia pyriformis, Fr., S. M., iii. 184 (1829); Curr. Mic. 

 Journ , iii. t. 2, f. 9, 10 ; Cooke, Hdbk., No. 1178. 



Trichia Lorinseriana, Corda, Ic, f. 228 D (1837) ; Curr., Micr. 

 Journ., V. p. 129 ; Cooke, Hdbk., No. 1180. 



Trichia pyriformis, (3 serotina, Ktfki., in Fckl., Symb. 2, N. 75 

 (1873). 



Craterium fioriforme, Schw., Am., No., 2307. 



Alwisia bombarda, B. and Br., Ceylon Fungi, No. 784, t. ii. f. 6, 

 (1873). 



