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the base in a cruciate manner, breaking away in patches and leaving a 

 brown minutely velvety surface. Threads of capillitium thicker than 

 diameter of spores, flaccid, often contorted, tapering, barren basal 

 stratum almost obsolete; spores ochraceous-cinnamon, smooth, globose, 



4 fj, diam. — Utraria cruciata, Quel. Jur. et Vosg., 359. 



From 2/3 to I in. high. Sometimes rooting, Europe. Khode Island. 



90. L. grwnosum, B. & C, Herb. Berk. — Globose, sessile, plicate 

 below and passing abruptly into a slender root, peridium thin, tough, 

 almost smooth. Capillitium very dense, continuous with the compact 

 scanty sterile base, threads about equal in thickness to diameter of spores, 

 much interlaced ; spores ochraceous-olive, globose, smooth, 4 /x diam. 



About 1 g in. across. On the ground. Cuba. 



91. L. muricatum, Bon. Bot. Ztg., 1857, 612. — Obconic or lenti- 

 form contracted into a very short furrowed base, at first white and above 

 covered with triangulose spinose warts, then umbonate, becoming smooth 

 and brown. Threads of capillitium about thickness of diameter of spores, 

 flexuous, tapering, sterile base almost obsolete; spores umber, tinged 

 olive, smooth, globose, often with a long pedicel, 5 fi diam. — Fuckel, 

 Fungi Rhenani, Exs., No. 1257. 



From 1-2 in. broad. In pine woods and sandy pastures. Germany. 



92. L. turhinatum, B. & C, Cuban Fungi, No. 510, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc, X. 315. — Turbinate, passing into a long tapering root, glabrous, 

 reddish umber. Capillitium dense, threads about equal in thickness to 

 diameter of spores, flexuous ; scanty sterile base compact ; spores dirty 

 cinnamon, globose, smooth, 4 /u, diam. 



Peridium about 1^ in. diam. On rotten wood in dense forests. 

 Cuba. 



93. L. microspennum, Berk. Hook. Journ., vi. p. 172 (1854). — 

 Subglobose, flaccid, persistent, at first with small acute warts, becoming 

 smooth, dehiscing by a small round mouth, root usually elongated. 

 Threads of capillitium much wider than diameter of spores, firm, branched, 

 axils rounded, tapering flexuous towards the tips ; sterile base obsolete ; 

 spores brownish olive, globose, smooth, 2-3 /x diam. 



Peridium 1/2-1 m. across. On the ground. Darjeeling, India, 

 New Zealand. 



94. L. citrinum, B. & Br., Ceylon Fungi, No. 724, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc, xiv. 80. — Broadly elliptic, sessile, pale citrin minutely warted, 

 dehiscing by a small apical opening, root long cord-like. Threads of 

 capillitium of varying thickness, tapering, frequently branched, sterile 

 base cellular, scanty ; spores pale olive, globose, smooth, often pedicellate, 



5 fjb diam. 



From 1/2-2/3 in. diam. On the ground. Ceylon. 



95. jL. Jlavum, Mass., nov. sp. — Globose, yellowish olive, fibrillose 

 or minutely furfuraceous, dehiscing by a small apical mouth. Threads 

 of capillitium very variable in thickness with slender scattered spines, 

 rarely branched, sterile base obsolete, spores dirty lemon yellow, o-lobose 

 smooth, 5 /x diam. Plate XIII. figs. 27-29. 



About 1 in. across. On the ground. Cape of Good Hope. 



96. L. dermoxanthum, Vitt. Mon., p. 177. — Peridium very thin 

 and flaccid, persistent, sessile, irregularly globose, base more or less 



