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ashy grey. Capillitmm ocliraceous olive, threads frequently branched, 

 axils rounded, thicker than diameter of spores at thickest parts, tapering, 

 evanescent, sterile basal portion well developed, cellular, dense, free from 

 capillitium ; spores dirty olive, spherical, smooth, 5 /a diam., frequently 

 furnished with a hyaline pedicel 2-3 times as long as diameter of spore, — 

 L. cselatum, Fr. S. M., iii. 32. Yitt. Lye, 188. Berk. Outl., t. 20, f. 7. 

 Eng. Flor., 303. Krombh., t. 30, f. 7-10. Harzer, t. Ixxiv. Schaeff., 

 t. cxc. Nees, Pilze, t. 10, f. 1. Hussey, ii. pi. 23. Cke. Hdbk., 1084. 

 Barla, pi. 46, f. 4. L. gemmatum, Schaeff. Ic, t. 189, figs. 1-3. 

 L. hovista, Nees, Pilze, t. 11, f. 125. Bovista officinarum, Sturm, t. 1. 

 Utraria cselata. Quel. Champ. Jur. et Vosg., p. 360. 



Very variable in form, generally spherico-depressed and sessile or 

 with a short thick stem, or with a thin stem from 1-2 in. long. 

 Peridium from 1-4 in. in diameter. 



Common in fields, woods, roadsides, &c. Autumn. 



All Europe, North America, Behring's Straits, Falkland Islands, 

 Cuba, Neelgheries, Darjeeling, Kuram Valley, India, Tasmania, New 

 Zealand, Algeria, Australia. 



48. L.favosum (Eostk.), Bon. Bot. Ztg., 1857. — Broadly turbinate, 

 depressed, contracted into a more or less plicate short stem-like base, 

 upper part of peridium fragile, evanescent, leaving a wide opening with 

 torn edges, lower portion with polygonal depressions, presenting a honey- 

 comb-like appearance. Capillitium compact, threads branched, sterile 

 cellular base well developed ; spores smooth, globose, blackish olive. — 

 Bovista favosa, Eostk., in Sturm, t. 3. L. cdelatum, Barla, pi. 46, f. 5. 



2-3 in. across. On the ground. Europe. 



49. L. capense, Cke. & Mass., nov. sp. — Globose, sessile, minutely 

 furfuraceous becoming smooth, plicate below, with a long stout tapering 

 root. Capillitium dense, threads of uniform thickness, equal in diameter 

 to spores, simple, much interlaced and curled, continuous with the com- 

 pact basal stratum, spores bright ochre tinged citrin, smooth, globose, 

 4 fi, diam. Plate XII. figs. 4 and 5. 



About 2 in. diam. On the ground. Cape of Good Hope. 



60. L. depressum, Bon. Bot. Ztg., 1857, p. 611. — Obconic, obtuse or 

 lens-shaped passing into a thick stem, base often plicato-sulcate, covered 

 with small spinose warts, becoming granular or furfuraceous. Threads of 

 capillitium lax, collapsing, thickness about equal to diameter of spores, 

 sterile base well developed, cellular ; spores olivaceous umber, smooth, 

 globose, 3-4 //. diam. — Oudeman's Fungi Neerlandici Exs., No. 118. 



About 1 in. high. On the ground. Europe. 



51. L. ealvescens^B. & C, Grev., ii. p. 50. — Subglobose, spring- 

 ing from a short thick rooting base, peridium thin, at first with sub- 

 tomentose spinose warts which fall away above, leaving the surface 

 minutely velvety. Threads of capillitium variable in thickness, often 

 contorted, basal stratum cellular, spores dirty dark ochre, globose 

 smooth, 3-4 /* diam. 



Connecticut. 



52. L. Cooliei, Mass., in Herb, Kew. — Hemispherical or globose, 

 abruptly contracted into a short thick stem-like base, smoky brown above, 

 white below, minutely areolato-furfuraceous, dehiscing by a small irre- 



