258 (Tasteromycetse, Lycopprdaceae, Tylostoma. 



vinosove, chartaceo, squamis adpressis vestito, intus albido; stipite 

 lignoso, longitudinaliter striato-costato albido-rufe.scente, aequali, 

 cyJindraceo, 8-12 cm. longo, 8-10 mm. crasso, farcto, contextu 

 brunneo, inferne bulboso; gleba lanosa, inferne violaceo-vinosa 

 superne olivaceo-nigrescente, columella percursa; capiUitio bene 

 evoluto, floccoso, pallide rufo, non spiraliter diffracto, 5-8 u. crasso; 

 basidiis glomerulatis, rufulis, sporas quaternas gerentibus; sporis 

 eliipticis apice poro impressis, olivaceis, dein rubris, 14-15 >=' 10-12 

 Hah. in sabulosis in Tunisia — P. indico Fr. affinis. 



ELASMOMYCES Cavara, Malpighia 1897, p. 426 (Eiym. elasmos larai- 

 na). Peridium semiepigaeum, stipitatum, globulare, primo clausum, 

 dein inferne apertum, subtus lameilis spuriis crassis, radiautibus, 

 donatum ; stipes brevis, farctus, evolvatus, in colujnellam usque ad 

 peridium desinens; gleba celluloso-spongiosa ; hymenium e basidiis 

 2-4-sterigmaticis, cystidiis paraphysibusque efformatum ; sporae 

 sphsericie, difformes, aculeatse. 



1. Elasmomyces Mattiroiianus Cav. 1. c. tab. YII. — Peridio glo- 397 

 boso, globoso-depresso v. anguloso, levi, albo-flavescente, margine 

 tenui, interdum fracto ; lamellis obtusis, albis, parum evolutis ; gleba 

 e flavo ochracea, lacunis minutis irregularibusque ; stipite solido, 

 cylindraceo-gibboso, plerumque oblique inserto; basidiis clavato- 

 truncatis ; paraphysibus cylindraceis brevioribus ; cystidiis oblongo- 

 ellipticis, prselongis ; sporis sphseroideis, aculeolatis, luteo-brunneis, 

 aliis 14-15 a., aliis 8-9 u. diam. 



Hab. ad terram sub acubus deciduis Abietis pectinatae 

 pr. S. Griovanni Gualberto Vallisumbrosse in Italia. 



TYLOSTOMA Pers. — Syll. VII, p. 60, IX, p. 268, XI, p. 159. - • 

 Sec. Massee Grev. XTX, p. 97, genus Sphcericdps "W. et C, Sacc. 

 Syll. VII, p. 60, est Tiattarrea. 



1. Tyiostoma montanum Pat. Cat. rais. pl. cell. Tunisie, 1807, p. 70; 898 

 Explor. Tun. Illustr. bot. tab. III, fig. 2. — Peridio subgloboso, 

 papyraceo, sursum glabro, deorsum zona scruposo-tomentosa cincto, 

 pallide brunneo, 2 cm. lato, ore scarioso, integro, 1 mm. alto, 2 

 mm. lato; stipite a peridio discreto et in acetaDiiIuui peridii immerso, 

 rufo-bruuneo, in squamas latas, glabras diffracto, 5-7 cm. longo, 

 5-8 mm. crasso, intus albo, basi marginato-bulboso ; gleba argillacea; 

 oapillitii floccis cylindraceis, hyalinis, 5-8 p. latis; sporis globosis, 

 5-6 ix. diam., asperulis, ochraceis. 



