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2. Diploderma glaucum Cooke ot Mass. in Grevillea 1.^^87, p. DO. — -69 

 Subi^Mobqsum, glauco-cinereum ; exoperidio fragili, niox secedente; 

 ondoperidio tenui, flavescente, sicco fragili, levi, ab exoperidio oinni- 



no discreto; capillitio siinplici, contorto, intertexto; sporis glau- 

 cis, ellipticis, glabris, 10:^5 a. 



Hab. ad terram Scamander River Australiao (Wintle). — Pe- 

 ridium 2,5 cm. latum, siccitate fragillimum; flocci sporis tenuio- 

 res, radiantes. 



3. Diploderma suberosum Cooke et Mass. in Grevillea 1887, p. 100. 270 

 — Depresso-globosum deorsum in stipitem brevem attenuatum ; ex- 

 operidio suberoso, persistenti, ocliraceo; endoperidio cartilagineo, 

 nigrescenti; capillitio simplici, recto, radiato, liyalino; sporis ochra- 

 ceis, globosis, glabris, 3-4 a. diam. 



Hab. ad terram Brisbane Queensland. — Peridium 3,5-4 cm. 

 diam., nucleus centralis solidus minor ac in Diplodermate (jlauco 

 C. et M. 



TRICHASTER Czern. in BuU. Soc. Nat. Moscou 1815, p. 149 (Ktym. 

 a tJirix capillus et a^ter astrum). — Peridium duplex, utrum- 

 que stellatim dehiscens ; exoperidium coriaceum, squamosum; stipes 

 nullus; endoperidium crassum, fragile, fuligineo-villosum, conna- 

 tum, demum secedeus, extus sporis conspersum ; capillitium glo- 

 bosum, compactum sporis conspersum, post exoperidii dehiscentiam 

 denudatum; spora) faliginea?. — Fungi ad terraj superficiem evo- 

 luti. Generi Battarrea quodammodo analogus. 



1. Trlchaster melanocephalus Czern. in BuU. Soc. Nat. do Moscou 271 

 1845, pag. 150. — Obpiriformis, glaber, squamulis irregularibus 

 subindistinctis obsitus, extus brunneus, intus ater, prima a^tate car- 

 nosus, albidus. 



Hab. ad terram in umbrosis Rossise. — Fungus ca?spitosus vel 

 solitarius, 5-8 cm. altus, 3,5-5 cm. latus. 



BROOMEJA Berk. in Lond. Journ. 1841, p. 193 (Etym. a cl. myco- 

 logo britannico Broome, cui dicatum fuit genus). — Peridium du- 

 plex, utrumque persistens; exoperidium incompletum, coDthiendo 

 stromatiforme individuorum plurimorum commune, suberosum, ab 

 endoperidio, cujus basim tantum induit, discretum; endoperiJium 

 papyraceum, apice fimbriato-dehiscens; capillitium laxum, endope- 

 ridio undique adnatum; sporfe floccis nodosis immixta^, globosa), 

 echinulat:e, colorata;. — Fungi gregarii, odori, raassam confer- 



