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India, Tihri-Garhwal, N.W. India, Somerset East, South Africa, Algeria, 

 Swan Kivcr, Illawarra, Solomon Islands, Tasmania, New Zealand. 



33. L. Berkeley i Mass. — Peridium subglobose or slightly depressed, 

 delicate, prunioso-furfuraceous, stem stout, cellular. Threads of capil- 

 litium about equal in thickness to diameter of spores, branched, angles 

 acute, free from the cellular base ; spores ochraceous with a tinge of 

 pink, smooth, globose, 3 /j, diam. — L. delicatmn, Berk. & Curt., Grrev., ii. 

 p. 51. There is a L. delicatum Berk, of prior date. Plate XII. 

 figs. 6 and 7. 



Peridium about 2^ in. across, cellular stem-like base, 1-1^ in. long 

 and of equal thickness. Pennsylvania. 



34. L. Colensoi Cke. and Mass., nov. sp. — Subcylindrical, peridium 

 thin collapsing, dehiscing by a small apical torn mouth, above with 

 scattered spinose warts which become smaller, shorter, and more 

 crowded downwards, ochraceous when dry. Capillitium dense, threads 

 thicker than diameter of spores, flaccid, basal sterile stratum well de- 

 veloped, very cellular; spores olivaceous-brown, smooth, globose, 4 fx 

 diam. Sometimes subclavate and plicate at the base, Plate XII. 

 figs. 1-3. 



From li-2^ in. high, | in. across. On the ground. New Zealand. 



33. L. echinulatum, B. & Br., Fungi Ceylon, No. 722, Linn. 

 Journ., xiv. p. 80. — Turbinate, passing into a short obconic stem, 

 bristling with rather stout spinose warts, which are largest above. 

 Capillitium continuous with the dense indistinctly cellular sterile base ; 

 spores citrin, globose, smooth, 3 //. diam. {= L. echinellum, B. & Br., 

 in Herb. Berk.). 



From 1-1^ in, diam. On the ground. Ceylon. 



36, L. pyriforme, Schaeff, Icon., t. 185. — Pyriform, membranaceous, 

 rather umbonate, dehiscing by a small torn mouth, covered with minute 

 pointed warts, becoming smooth ; root of numerous white, long, branching 

 fibres. Threads of capillitium thicker than diameter of spores, branched, 

 continuous with the slightly cellular sterile base forming a columella ; 

 spores olive, smooth, globose, 4 [i, diam. — L. pyriforme, Price, pi. 15. 

 Schaeff., 185. Sci. Gossip, Dec. 1 866. Fr. S. M., 3, 38. Hussey, i. 

 pi Ixx. Cooke, Exs,, No. 215. Fuckel, Exs., No. 1260. Grev., t. o04. 

 Cke, Hdbk,, 1089. Eng. Flor., 304. Karst. Myc. Fenn.,iii. 362. Barla, 

 t. 46, f. 10-11. TJtraria pyriformis, Quel. Jur. et Vosg., 360. L. 

 ovoideum, Bull., t. 435, f. 3. L. pyriforme, Vitt. Mon,, t. 2, f, 9, 

 p. 196. 



Generally in clusters. Variable in form and size, from 1-3 in. high. 

 On decaying trunks or on the ground. 



Europe, North America, Venezuela, Cuba, Arctic America, Gala- 

 pagos, Sikkim Himalayas (4-7000 ft.), Bombay, New Guinea, Japan, 

 Tasmania, New Zealand, Australia, 



Var. excipuliforme Desm. — Caespitose, subglobose, rufous -umber, 

 rough with very slender warts, with a distinct elongated stem ; root of 

 long fibres, — Desmazieres, Crypt, France, ser. i.. No. 1152. 



Difi'ers from type in having a slender stem of equal thickness. 



Autumn, France. 



37. L. ylabrescens, Berk, Fl, Tasm,, ii, 226. — Subhemispherical, 



