5g Lycoperdaceffi, Podaxinejo, Mesophellia. 



presso, 2-4 cm. lato; hymenio rublginoso-atro, mox pulveraceo; 

 sporis obscure rufo-brunneis, globulosis, G-8 a. diam, 



JTnh. in arenosis S. Francisco Californioe. — A Polyplocio in- 

 quinanle Herk. prajcipue statura minori, stipite graciliori differt. 



CYCLODERMA Klotzsch in Linnrea VII, p. 203 (Etjm. a cyclos cir- 

 culus et derma cutis), — Peridium duplex, exterius coriaceum, 

 molle, interius discretum papyraceum tenuissimum; columella scy- 

 phiformis, centro peridii interioris adnata; capillitium radiatum, 

 columellam et peridium interius jungens; sporis minutis, nudis 

 insporsum. — ■ Fungi radiculosi, stipite nuUo. 



1. Cycloderma indicum Klotzsch in Linnsea 1832, p. 203, t. IX, f. />. io9 



— Impresse globosum; exoperidio coriaceo molli, squamoso areo- 

 lato, ochraceo; columella scyphiphormi, spongiosa, alba; capillitio 

 radiato. npquali, ferrugineo-olivaceo; sporis minutis, globosis, con- 

 coloribus. 



Jlah. ad terram in India occidentali, — Nucis juglandis ma- 

 gnitudine, medio impressum, habitu externo Sclerodermati vul- 

 gari subsimile, radice spongiosa instructum. 



2. Cycloderma Weddellll Mont. in Ann. des Sc. Nat. IS56, p. 373. m 



— Subternatum ; peridio exteriori subgloboso, pallido, verrucoso, 

 basi in stipitem attenuato, irregulariter apice rupto, interiori pa- 

 pyraceo, separabili, fusco, fragili, glebiie maturfc filamentis in la- 

 mellulas a columella centrali peripheriam versus radiantes consti- 

 patas contextis atris; sporis sphrericis, levibus, fuHginosis, ses- 

 silibus. 



llah. ad terram in Brasilia, A Cyclodermale indico Klolzsch 

 peridio subternato, columella sphrerica coloreque laraeliularum atro 

 distinctum. 



3. Cycloderma ohiense Cooke et Morg, in Grevillea XI, p. 95. — Sub i^i 

 globosum, album, love: peridio glabro, coriaceo, superne umbonato, 

 inferne radicoso-fibroso; columella subcylindrica, a^^quali, capillitio- 

 que radiante alba; sporis globosis, minutissimis, hyalinis. 



llah. ad lerram Oliio Americrr borealis, — Circiter 2,5 cm. d. 



MESOPHELLIA Berk. Fl, Tasm. p, 260 (Etym. a mesos medius et 

 phellos suber). Inoderma Bork, Austr. Fungi p, 386, poster, non 

 Kiitz. — Peridium crassum, coriacoum, suberosum v, fragile, fibris 

 repentibus ramosis omnino percursum; capiilitium fascicuhato-ana- 

 .slnmosans a<l rolinnollam contralem suberosam radians: flocci fle- 



