18 Pli.iUoidea.', Clathreie, Chitlirus. 



Hab. ad lerram pr. urbem Peradeiiya Ceyion, — Ex. icoiie nou 

 certc elucet, utrum receptaculi pars superior pileo ovato margine 

 libero instructa sit, an, ut in Siiablo, clibrmata sit e stipitis apice 

 dihitato, cancellato. Quamobrem, dubium est ati liEec species profecto 

 ff. Simblo sit iiiserenda. 



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CLATHRUS Micheli Nova plantarum genera, 1729, p, 211 (Etym. a 

 cleilhron claustrum); incl. Lalernca Turpin (= (^olonnaria Ra- 

 tinesque), Clethria Corda, lleodiciyon Tuiasue. — Receptaculuui 

 stipite carens, cavo-clathratum v. e paucis ramis verticalibus apice 

 junctis {Laternea) consistens, pulpam sporiferam includens. 



1. Clathrus triscapus (Turpin) Fries Syst. myc. II, p. 287, Latcmea "^i 

 Iriacapa Turp. Dict, des sciences nat. t. 25, 1822, p. 248, Atlas 

 Veg. acotyl. t. 49. — Receptaculo e tribus ramis verticalibus, gra- 

 cilibus, tenuibus, teretibus, superne attenuatis, a basi divergenti- 

 bus, apice junctis, infra albis, apiccm versus cinnabarinis consi- 

 stente, 6.2 cm. alto, 5 cm. diametro metieute; gleba ante liquefa- 

 ctionem in reccptaculi apice suspensa, cinnabarina; sporis sphre- 

 ricis {%). 



Ilab. (dle de la Tortue » Insula^ St. Domingo vicina. — Non- 

 nulhe formfc ab auctoribus nomine Cl. friscapi appellatse sunt, sed 

 dubiura, an omnes eidem speciei attribuonda? : Rerk. iu Intell. Obs. 

 IX, 18GG, p. 401 ; receptaculi ramis extus costa instructis, plane 

 rubris; totius fructificatione alt. 8 cm., diam. 4 cm. Hab. iii ins. 

 Java, IJerk. et Curt. Cuban Fungi 493: ramis i^, quorum uno 

 furcato, vel 4, pallide cinnabarinis. Hab. Chili. Ellis, sec. Hull. of 

 Torrey bot, Club. VII, 1880, p. oO: Texas. 



2. Clathrus Berkeleyi Gerard in litt. Latcrnca pusilla Herk. et Curt. 52 

 in Journ. of Liiiii. society Botany X, I8G9, p. 343. — Fructifica- 

 tione minima (^Yo cm. alta); receptaculo e 2 ramis sursutn crispis 

 coccineis, deorsum candidis consistente. 



Jfab. a<l terram in insula Cuba. 



3. Clathrus COlumnatus Bosc Magaz. der (iGsellsch. nalurforsciiender r.:^ 

 Freunde Berlin V, 1811, p. 85, tab. V, f. 5, Colonnaria {nrceo- 

 lala et /rjmca/a .^) Rafinesque in Medical repositoi'y for 1808, Cla- 

 Ihrus cotonnarias Leman in Dict. sc. naturelles IX, 1817, p. 360, 

 J.aternea cotamnata Nees (Nees und llenry System der Pilze, 2te 

 Aijth. bearb. voii Bail 1858, p. 90, tab. 2;)), Clathrus brasiliensis 

 Fd. I"'ischer, Jalirb. des botan. Gartens und des botan. Museums 

 /.u-Borlin IV, 1886, p. G8, tab. I, f. 3-7. — Usque ad 12 cm. al- 



