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Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, 1871. N:o 2. 



Stockholm. 



QUELETIA, novum Lycoperdaceorum genus, 

 Accedit nova Gyromitrw species. 



Scripsit E. Fries. 



Tan. IV. 

 [Meddeladt den 8 Februari 1871.] 



Nulla fungorum familia, ne dicam plantarum, tam insignia 

 et a se invicem distantia genera offert ac Lycoperdaceorum. Exem- 

 fplo sint Podaxinei omnes, Batarrea, Husseia, Bromeia, Mitre- 

 \myces, Geeister,' Diploderma, Lanopila, Sterrebechia (perperam 

 yjiyeenastrum dictum, cfr. Fung Natal.) Polysaccum, Favillea, 

 iCenococcum etc, quorurn singulum a reliquis tantum distat, ut 

 typum peculiaris tribus facile prrebeat. His addo novum Eu- 

 :ropseum : 



QUELETIA. 

 Char. Peridium simplex, membranaceum, laeve, fragile, 

 basi membranacea annulari marginatum' et a stipite discretum, 

 demum irregulariter dehiscens. Columella? rudimentum sistit sti- 

 pitis apex in peridium inträns (cfr. f. 3.) Capillitii flouci rari, 

 peridio undique affixi, continui, contorti, ramosi, pellucidi. Sporce 

 copiosissimas, coacervatse, brevi pedicellatse, globosse, verrucoso- 

 echinatse. Stipes validus, camoso-fibrosus, peculiari ratione externe 

 solvüur in ramenta fibrosa. Unica cognita species : 



Queletia mirahilis Fr. 



Char. Peridium sphsericum, album in dilute fuligineum trans- 

 iens; stipite valido lacerato, sporis ful vis. 



