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III. Spores globose, smooth, purple, lilac, or various shades of brown. 



24. L. marginatum, Vitt. Lye, 185. — Turbinate or broadly 

 obconic, obtuse, bristling with various sized pyramidal spines becoming 

 smaller downwards and eventually disappearing above, permanent below 

 and defined by a marginate line ; dehiscing by a small apical aperture ; 

 root elongated tapering. Capillitium continuous with the prominent 

 convex cellular sterile base, and forming an imperfect columella, threads 

 firm, rarely branched, mostly thicker than diameter of spores, tapering ; 

 spores purple-brown, smooth, globose, sometimes pedicellate, 5 /j. diam. 

 — Vitt. Lycop., t. 1, f. xi. L. echini, &c., Batt., t. 31, f. 0. L. 

 papiillatuni? iSchaeff., t. 184. 



An inch or more across. In sterile sandy places. Europe, Algeria. 



25. L. Natalense Cke. & Mass., nov. sp. — Globose, sessile, passing 

 abruptly into a short tapering root ; peridium thick, minutely warted 

 becoming smooth, mouth small, irregularly torn. Capillitium dense, 

 free from the well-developed, convex, cellular sterile base, threads very 

 thick, firm, flesuous, simple ; spores olive with a tinge of purple, 

 globose, smooth, 3 yu, diam. Plate XIII. figs. 18-20. 



From 1/2-2/3 in. diam. Ochraceous. On the ground. Quanda, Natal. 



26. L. hicolor, Welw, & Curr., Fung. Angol., Trans. Linn. Soc, 

 xxvi. p. 290, t. 20, f. 12.' — Stipitate 1^-2 in. high, stem white, sub- 

 cylindrical, attenuated towards the base ; peridium brownish lead 

 colour, papyraceous ; capillitium brown ; spores brown, globose, smooth, 

 5-6 fi diam. 



In moist open places in woods. West Africa. 



27. L. sestivale, Bon. Bot. Ztg., 1857, p.' 630. — Peridium globose, 

 granuloso-floccose, papyraceous, dehiscing by an irregularly toothed 

 orifice, white, then brownish or greyish ochre ; stem very short, stout, 

 passing into the fusiform root. Capillitium fugacious, threads about 

 equal to diameter of spores ; sterile basal portion cellular, well developed ; 

 spores dark umber, globose, smooth, 6 fx diam. 



Pileus 1/2 in. or more diam. Grassy places. August. Europe. 



28. L. ruhecula, B. & Br., Fungi Ceylon, No. 72U, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc, xiv. p. 80. — Peridium whitish, glabrous downwards, above with 

 very minute rufous warts, conico-turbinate passing into the thick stem, 

 which is more or less rugose at the base. Capillitium ochraceous, sterile 

 portion well developed, spores ochraceous brown, globose, smooth, 3-4 ^ 

 diam. 



On the ground. Ceylon. 



Peridium with stem 2/3-1 in. high. When dry altogether dirty 

 ochraceous red, paler below. Mycelium fibrillose, white. In one of the 

 types in Herb, Berk, the spores have a lilac tinge, and possibly they 

 may be purplish when old. 



29. L. sericellum, Berk., in Hook. Journ., 171. — Subglobose, obtuse, 

 passing into a stout stem, silky or velvety, dehiscing by an apical 

 aperture. Capillitium very dense, continuous with the compact silky 

 sterile stratum, threads about equal in thickness to diameter of spores, 

 branched, often nodulose ; spores cinnamon, smooth, globose, 4 fi diam. 



Peridium from 2 to 3 in. diam. On the ground. Darjeeling, India. 



