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110. L. iMcatum, B. & C, Proc. Amer. Acad., 1859, 125.— Sub- 

 rotund or depressed, white becoming pale brown, cortex with minute 

 warts, splitting away above, plicate below and produced into a very short 

 stem. Capillitium continuous with the scanty sterile base ; spores 

 broadly elliptic, smooth, often shortly pedicellate. 



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



111. L. gauterioides, B. & Br., Fungi Ceylon, No. 718, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc, xiv. p. 79. — Irregular, suborbicular, leathery, citrin. minutely fur- 

 furaceous, rugoso-lacunose especially below, stem very short. Threads 

 of capillitium much branched, axils rounded, sterile base scanty ; spores 

 olive, smooth, broadly elliptic. 5 x 4 /a diam. 



A little over 1 in. diam. On scorched ground. Ceylon. 



112. L. coloratum, Peck, N.Y. Nat. Hist. Mus. Bot. Eeport (29th) 

 — Peridium globose or obovate, subsessile, radicating, yellow or reddish- 

 yellow, brownish when old, shghtly roughened with minute granular or 

 furfuraceous persistent warts ; capillitium and spores at first pale, in- 

 clining to sulphur colour, then dingy olive; spores subglobose, smooth, 

 about 0-00016 in. diam. (= about 4 /x).— U.S. Sp. Lycop., pp. 2.4-30. 



" There is a slight depression in one side of the spore, so that when 

 viewed in a particular direction, it appears flattened or depressed on one 

 side, although if viewed in a different direction it may appear globose." 



Less than 1 in. across. Grround in thin woods and bushy places. 

 Bare. July and August. United States. 



113. L. xanthospermum, Berk. Hook. Journ., vi. p. 172 (1854). — 

 Globose or broadly obovate, peridium thin, persistent, yellowish with 

 minute brown specks of outer peridium remaining. Threads of capillitium 

 firm, simple, about equal in thickness to diameter of spores, continuous 

 with the scanty cellular base ; spores dark yellow tinged olive, smooth, 

 subglobose, generally pedicellate, about 5 jm diam. 



About 1 in. diam. Not furfuraceou-^. On the ground. Khasia, 

 India. 



Species belonging to group B, htt owing to absence of type specimens 

 and information as to surface of spores, could not he arranged under 

 the sections. 



114. L. tomentosum, Yitt. Mon. Lye, p. 179. — Peridium veryjthin, 

 persistent, chestnut brown, covered with evanescent tomentum, dehiscing 

 by a minute mouth. Sterile base none, spores olive-brown. — Vitt., t. 1, 

 f. 10. 



In dry pastures, semi-immersed. Aug. -Sept. Italy. 



115. L. purpurascens, B. & C, Proc. Amer. Acad., 1859, 124. — 

 Small, subglobose, contracted into a sub-aculeate base, purplish then 

 brown, innato-squamulose above. Sterile stratum obsolete, spores 

 yellowish olive. 



On decayed trunks. Benin Islands. 



116. L. mundula, Kalch, Grev., ix. p. 3 (1880). — Peridium floccose, 

 becoming smooth, white, size of a hazel-nut. Spores and capillitium 

 carneo-rufous, • 004 mm. diam. 



Similar to L. pusillum, but colour of spores different. Australia. 



