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gular mouth. Capillitium continuous with the well-developed cellular 

 sterile base, threads varying in thickness, simple, firm ; spores bright 

 citrin, then olivaceous-umber, globose, smooth, sometimes stipitate, 4 yu, 

 diam. — L. imsillum, Cooke, in Science Gossip, Dec. 1886- Plate XIII. 

 figs. 2^2(3. 



From 1/2-2/3 in. across. Gregarious. On the ground. England 

 (Kew Gardens, Norfolk), Albany, U.S., Port Jackson, Austraha. 



53. L. rugosum, B. & C, Cuban Fungi, No. 504, Journ. Linn. Soc, 

 X. p. 345. — Irregularly subglobose or turbinate, peridium thick tomen- 

 tose, rugoso-pHcate below, stem very short, thick, ending in a knob- 

 like root. Capillitium continuous with the ample, convex, compact, sterile 

 stratum, threads equal, width about same as diameter of spores, rarely 

 branched, much curled and intricately woven into a dense felted mass ; 

 spores ochraceous, globose, smooth, 4 /j, diam. 



2-3 in. in diam. Hard and woody when dry. Sometimes two or 

 three spring from the same root. On the ground. Ceylon, Cuba, Niger 

 Expedition. 



54. L. polymorphum, Yitt. Mon., 183. — Peridium flaccid, persistent, 

 subglobose or depressed, sessile, or passing into a short stout stem, often 

 more or less plicate below, dehiscing by a small orifice, minutely warted, 

 cinereous. Capillitium continuous with the more or less developed 

 floccose compact sterile basal portion, and forming a slightly elevated 

 columella ; spores dark dirty olive, globose, smooth, pedicellate, 3-4 fx, 

 diam. — Vitt. Mon., t. 2, f. 8. L. furfuraceum, Schaeff., t. 294. L. eepse- 

 forme, Bull., t. 435, f. 2 (bottom row). 



Very variable in size and form ; never cup-shaped and open when old. 

 In sterile places. Summer and autumn. Europe, Algeria. 



55. L. eric^um, Bon. Bot. Ztg., 1857, 628. — Peridium subrotund 

 contracted into a very short plicate base, granulose, always obtuse, de- 

 hiscing by an apical laciniate mouth, yellowish brown when mature; 

 spores minute, globose, smooth, oHvaceous. Europe. 



V. Spores ellipitical or suhglohose. 



56. L. radicatum, D. E. & Mont., Fl. Alg., p. 383. — Globose or 

 obovate, outer coat smooth, breaking away in patches, upper portion 

 eventually evanescent, leaving an nregular large opening, root stout, 

 elongated. Threads of capillitium much and irregularly branched, 

 variable in thickness, tapering, continuous with the well-developed, 

 cellular base ; spores umber, broadly elliptical, smooth, often pedicellate, 

 6x4//. diam. 



In sandy places. Algeria. Size variable, up to about 1^ in. diam. 



57. L. phlebopliorum, B. & Br,, Fungi of Ceylon, No. 719, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, xiv. 79. — Irregularly reniform or subglobose, ochraceous, 

 with raised reticulations, between which are minute mealy warts ; stem 

 short, attenuated downwards, and terminating in a few branched white 

 fibres. Threads of capillitium thinner than diameter of spores, equal, 

 sterile base cellular; spores broadly elliptical, smooth, ochraceous, 

 5 X 3-4 fjb diam. 



Amongst leaves. Ceylon. 



