Lycoperdaceas, Diplodermeae, Mitremyces. 09 



cessibus raceinulosis torminatis; sporis ovatis, 10-11 y.. longis, gut- 

 tulatis, levibus. 



Hab. ad terrani in Carolina australi America^ (Ravenel). — 

 Totus fungus 12 mm. circ. altus, exoperidium 9-10 mm. latum. Al) 

 aliis speciebus endoperidio fere ex toto cavitatem exoperidii re- 

 plente distinctus. ■ — Var, minor Berk. Nortli Amer. Fungi n. 'XV,): 

 stipite brevi, exoperidio in areolas minutas rupto. Ad terram Crc- 

 sar's Ilead Carolina) inf. (Ravenel). Minutus 1-9 ram. alt. 



3. Mitremyces Junghuhnii Schl. et Miill. in Bot. Zeit. 1844, p. 401, 204 

 tab. 111 B. — Exoperidio subgloboso, livide flavido-ochraceo, verru- 

 culis sparsis, irregularibus, obscurioribus obsito, basi substipitato 

 vel fibroso-adnato ; osculo majusculo, dentibus 5-G subconcoloribus 

 margine rubro tinctis ; endoperidio oblongo, pallido ; sporis glo- 

 bulosis, verruculosis. 



Hab. in terram prope Tapoclang in insula Java (Junghum) et 

 prope Gunong Poe in ins. Borneo (Cesati). 



4. Mitremyces luridus Berk. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1845, p. 65, t. I, 2orj 

 f. 5, Decades of Fungi n. Gl. — Pusillus, subsessilis; exoperidio 

 globoso, sordide flavo-brunneo, rugoso, granulis sparsis minutis ni- 

 gris obsito, massa brevi, atra, anastomosante suffulto ; osculo ni- 

 gro, 4-5 dentibus instructo; endoperidio pallide flavo, rarius can- 

 dido; sporis ellipticis 1-2-guttulatis, filamentis paucis immixtis. 



Hab. ad terram arenosam in Australia occidentali (Drummond). 

 — Exoperidium 9 mm. latum. Mitremyceii fusco Berk. similis, 

 M. Junghuhnn S. et M. proximus. 



5. Mitremyces fuscus Berk. Fung. Flora Van Diem. p. 325. — Brun- -f*^"' 

 neus, simplex vel cajspitosus; caljptra hemisphfcrica intus pallido 

 rufo-brunnea, margine denticulato; exoperidio tenui, corneo, sursum 

 granulato-squamoso processibus mycelio stipitiformi pertine.ntibus, 

 anastomosantibus subcylindraceis, cartilagineis inserto, dentibus 4-G 

 rubro-lineatis marginatisque, subinde partim flavo maculatis en- 

 doperidio albo; sporis nucleum solidum formantibus, ovoideis, sor- 

 dide-albis. 



Hab. in silvis Van Diemen's Land (Lawrence) in Victoria ct 

 Tasmania. 

 G. Mitremyces viridis Berk. Fung. Hook. tab. DCCCLXIX B. llook. s^^t 

 Journ. Bot. 1S51, p. 201. — ■ Peridio amplo stipitoquo lacunoso 

 costalo cartilagineo viridibus, squamis osculi margine coccineo- 

 granulatis ; sporis globosis fortiter granulatis. 

 Ifah. ad terraiii Victoria et in llimalaja. 



