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Tlie following species could not he arranged trnder Groups A or B, 

 Giving to inijjerfect descriptions, and absence of type specimens : — 



1. Spores purple, lilac, or various shades of umher or hroivn. 



117. L. asperrimum, Welw. & Curr.. Fung. Angol.. Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, xxvi. p. 289, t. 20, f. 14. — Subglobose, 1 iu. or more bigh, peridium 

 cinnamon, papyraceous, when young bristling with spines, becoming 

 smooth, capillitium reddish ; spores same colour, globose, minutely 

 echinulate, 4 fu, diam. 



Amongst bushes in sandy places. West Africa. 



118. L. Wekvitschii Mass. — Peridium globose or subturbinate, 

 horny, fragile, blackish purple, clothed with dense rufous tomentum. 

 Capillitium brown, spores brown, very minutely echinulate, about 3 /j, 

 diam. — L. tomentosum, Welw. & Curr., Fungi Angol., Linn, I'rans., 

 xxvi. p. 289, t. 19, f. 7-8 (1868). There is a L. tomentosum Vitt. of 

 prior date. 



On damp ground, amongst rotten leaves. Golungo, West Africa. 



119. L. Nov8e Zealandiee, Lev. Ann. Sci. Nat., 1846, p. 164. — 

 Peridium globose, sessile, papyraceous, evanescent above and opening by 

 a very large mouth, at first covered with minute white shining warts, 

 lacunoso-plicate below, flesh and smooth spores violet. 



From 5-7 cm. diam. On the ground. New Zealand. 



120. L. cmspitosum, Welw. & Curr., Fung. Angol., Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, xxvi. pp. 289-90, t. 20, f. 1-2.— Subglobose ; 1/4-1^ in. high, 

 1/4-1^ in. across, rooting, white when growing, yellowish when dry, 

 papyraceous, at first warted then almost naked ; capillitium argillaceous 

 lilac, yellowish under the Microscope; spores same colour, globose, 

 smooth, 5-6 ix diam. 



In grassy places. West Africa ; Somerset East, Africa. 



121. L. serotinum, Bon. Bot. Ztg., 1857, 631. — Globose, always 

 obtuse, contracted into a short rooting base, above with rufous-brown 

 spines, yellowish-white becoming ochraceous brown, dehiscing by an 

 entire mouth. Spores brownish ochre, minute, globose, smooth. 



Near trunks and roots. Europe. 



122. L.fuscum, Bon. Bot. Ztg., 1857, 626.— Small, pyriform or 

 obconic, at first with white spines of various sizes, becoming yellowish 

 and granuloso-floccose, umbonate, at length brown, mouth entire or 

 laciniate. Spores yellow-brown, minute, smooth. 



Europe. 



123. L. cretaceum, Berk. Linn. Journ., xvii. p. 15. — Sessile, globoso- 

 depressed, pale fulvous, scabroso-pulveraceous, above broken up into 

 rigid chalky pyramidal areolae ; mycelium creeping, white. Capillitium 

 brown, threads coarse, irregular, spores 0-005-0 "007 mm. 



Bellot Island (Arct. Exp.). 



124. L. gossypinum. Bull. Champ., p. 147, pi. 435, f. 1. — Minute, 

 subturbinate ; peridium flaccid, minutely woolly, spores brown. 



From 2-3 lines across. Peridium white, becoming brownish. 

 Gregarious on rotten wood. France. 



