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will be wise to consider Eostafinski as the author of the species in 

 question. 



Agreeing more especially in spore sculpture with T7: dictyosjjora 

 and Tr. Archeri, for distinctive features, see under these species. 



The specimen in Eabenh., Fung. Eur., n. 567, has the spirals of 

 the elaters furnished with scattered minute spinules. 



(Hostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Lycoperdon gregarium, Eetz., Obs. 1, 33 (1769). 



Lycoperdon favogineum, Batsch., f. 173 (1786). 



StemonUis pyriformis, Eoth., Fl. Germ., 1, 548 (1788). 



Sphserocarpus ckrynospermus, Bull., t. 417, f. 4 (1791). 



Stemonitis favoginea, Gmel., Syst., 1470 (1791). 



Trichia nitens, Pers., Obs. 1, 62 (1796). 



Trichia favoginea, Pers., Disp., 10 (1797). 



Trichia cJirysospenna, D. C, Fl. Fr., 673 (1805) ; Eng. FL, 

 V. 820 ; Cooke, Hdbk., No. 1187 ; Fungi Britt., ii. 524, 527. 



Trichia turhinata, Purt., Brit., ii. 1115 (1817). 



Clathroides favescens, Hall, t 1, f. 7 (1742). 



Trichia, Hall, 2168, t. 48, f. 7 (1768). 



Lycoperdon aggregatum, Eetz., Fl. Scan., 1627 (1769). 



Lycoperdon epiphyllum, Light, Fl. Sc, 1069 (1777). 



CUtlirus turbinatus, Huds., Fl. Angl., 632 (1778) ; Bolt., t. 94, f. 3. 



Trichia pyr if or mis, Vill., Fl. Dauph., 1060 (1789). 



Stemonitis pyriformis, Pers., in Gmel., Syst., 1468 (1791). 



Trichia turhhiata. With., Arr., iv. 480 (1792) ; Sow., t. 85 ; 

 Eng. FL, V. 320 ; Cke., Hdbk, n. 1186. 



Trichia pyriformis, Pers., Disp. 19 (1797). 



Trichia olivacea, Pers., Obs. I., 62 (1796) in part. 



Trichia ovata, Pers., Obs. II., 35 (1796); Schum., SaelL, 1454; 

 Fl.Dan., t. 1313, f. 1. 



Trichia vulgaris, Pers., Obs. II., 32 (1799). 



Fhysarum contextum, Spr., Syst., ix. 20 (1817). 



Trichia verrucosa, Berk., fig. 9. 



Sporangia pyriform, brown or chestnut, shining, passing down- 

 wards into a long slender stem, simple or botryoid, scattered, springing 

 from a thick, broadly effused hypothallus ; mass of capillitium and 

 spores oehraceous ; threads of capillitium simple, cylindrical, 8-10 //- 

 thick, with smooth tapering ends of variable length and straight or 

 curved, spirals close, thin, not prominent ; spores globose, with narrow, 

 raised fat hands combined into a few large irregular polygonal 

 meshes, 14-16 yu, diam. 



Berkeley, in Flora Tasm., p. 269. 



(Type in Herb. Berk., n. 10,906.) 



On wood. Tasmania ! (Archer). Differs from Trichia chryso- 

 sperma and T. dietyospora in the scattered stipitate sporangia springing 



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