712 Trarisactions of the Society. 



mouth conical, plicate bolow, at first covered with slender floccose spines, 

 becoming glabrous ; stem short, stout, tinged violet inside. Capillitium 

 dense, continuous with the cellular sterile base, threads firm, about as 

 thick as diameter of spores, often nodulose, branching, axils rounded, 

 tapering; spores dark cinnamon, tinged olive, smooth, globose, often 

 pedicellate, 5-6 /x^diam. 



Peridium 1^ in. diam. Tasmania, Australia. 



38. L. liiemale, Bull. Champ., t. 72, figs. B, D, E, and t. 475, 

 fig. E. — Subglobose or broadly turbinate passing into the narrowed base- 

 like stem, flaccid, collapsing, at first covered with prominent pointed 

 warts, becoming smooth, dehiscing by an irregular apical pore, often 

 rooting. Capillitium distinct from the well-developed cellular sterile 

 base, threads firm, variable in thickness, branched, axils rounded ; spores 

 olivaceous umber, globose, smooth, 3-4 fju diam. — Yitt. Lycop., 190, 

 t. 2, f. 5 ; Sacc. Mycotheca Yen., 1103 ; Sacc. Mycol. Yen., 71 ; L. eclii- 

 natum Schaeff., t. 186, f. 2 ; L. gemmatum, Schaefi"., t. 189, f. 4-5. 



In dry grassy places. Summer and autumn. Europe, Algeria. 



39. L. molle, Pers. Syn., 150. — Turbinate, base broad, abrupt, 

 peridium papyraceous, collapsing, furfuraceous, becoming smooth, de- 

 hiscing by a small irregular mouth. Threads of capillitium thicker than 

 diameter of spores, collapsing, sterile base well developed, slightly 

 cellular, marginate, almost distinct from the capillitium ; spores 

 ochraceous-olive, globose, smooth, 4 /* diam. 



Size of L. ])yriforme, colour much darker, almost dilute olive, very 

 soft to the touch, root none. Pers. 



On the ground in oak woods. Autumn. Germany, France, United 

 States. 



40. L. Curtisii, Berk. Grev., ii. p. 50. — Subglobose, contracted 

 into a short rooting base, pallid, with dense stout spinose warts, which 

 become smaller downwards. Threads of capillitium twice as thick as 

 diameter of spores, flaccid, sterile stratum large, cellular ; spores dirty 

 ochraceous, smooth, globose, 3-4 //- diam. 



About 1/3 in. diam. 



Connecticut, Upper and Lower Carolina, Somerset East, Africa. 



41. L. leucotrichum, D. E. & M., Fl. Alg., 383. — Subglobose, base 

 abruptly narrowed, peridium membranaceous, thin, fragile, everywhere 

 covered at first with soft spinose warts, becoming partly smooth, de- 

 hiscing by a laciniate orifice. Capillitium white, at length separating 

 from the cellular base, spores smooth, yellowish olive. 



Peridium about 1 in. across. In grassy places. Algeria, France. 



42. L. pedicellatum, Peck, N.Y. Nat. Hist. Mus. Bot. Keport (26th), 

 p, 73. — Peridium globose or depressed-globose, sessile or narrowed 

 below into a stem-like base, whitish or cinereous, becoming dingy or 

 smoky brown with age, echinate with rather dense spines, which are 

 either straight or curved or stellately united, and which at length fall 

 off and leave impressions or obscure reticulations on the surface ; capilli- 

 tium and spores greenish yellow, then dingy olive, columella present ; 

 spores smooth, pedicellate, • 00(Jl6-0 -00018 in. in diameter, the pedicel 

 three to five times as long (= about 4 yu,). — U.S. Sp. Lycop., p. 22. 

 " The pedicellate spores constitute the pecuHar feature of this species," 



