Lycoperdacese, Scleroclernieoe, Scoleciocarpu.?. 151 



gulariter dehiscente, intus sporangiola rainuta, graDiformia, gyrosa, 

 levia, ardosiaca foveute. 



llab. ad terram, in collis montosis circa Quillota Ohili Amer. 

 austr. (Bertero). 



2. Arachnion album Schwein. Syn. Fung. n. XIV, t. I, f. 2, Aracli- ^»''' 

 nion Bovista Speg. Dec. Myc. Arg. n. 43 non Mont. — Peridio 

 subgloboso, superficiali, levi, minute adnato-radicato, primo albo, 

 tenacello, molli, carnoso-succoso, pulpa concolori homogenea, com- 

 pactiuscula farcto, dein sordide fuscescenti, fragilissimo, sub tactu 

 mox IVustulatim evanescenti; sporangiolis minutis , subglobosis, 

 ellipticis vel ovoideis, 160-250 s 100-200 y.., in juventute albis, 

 dein flavesceutibus, postremo griseis vel griseo-subolivaceis, opacis, 

 deuse constipatis, levibus; sporis globosis, 3-4,5 [j.. diam., 1 grosse 

 guttulatis, plus minusve appendiculatis, rarius ecaudatis, dilute chlo- 

 riuo-fumosis. 



Hab. ad terram aridam prajcipue sabulosam iu planitie pam- 

 parum, Buenos Aires, Tuyu, Montes Largos et in Carolina supe- 

 riori. — Peridium 5-15 mm. diam. Exemplaria Americfe septen- 

 trionalis (Ravenel, North-Amer. Fung. n. 15) sporis ssepius sub- 

 ovoideis, rarius appeudiculatis, submajoribus (4-5,5 ;/. diam.) vix 

 differre videntur. 



3. Arachnion? aurantiacum (Rafin.) De Ton., ^lcmop^om aitran/mcrt m\ 

 Rafin. Prec. semiol. p. 51. — Aurantiacum ; peridio 6-fido, glo- 

 buloso; stipite cylindraceo, leniter reticulato; sporangiolis globulo- 

 sis, rufis. 



Hab. in silvis Pennsylvauise in America boreali. 



4. Arachnion Drummondii Berk. in Linu. Journ. XVIII, p. 389. — ^^o? 

 Peridio . . . . ; sporis globosis, 5-7,5 y.. diam. 



Hab. ad Locellinam cycnopotamiam Berk. prope Swan River 

 Australiae. 



SCOLECIOCARPUS Berk. Fung. Zeyh. p. 13. (Etym. a scolecion ver- 

 miculus et carpos fructus). — Peridium commune, simplex, tenuo 

 membrauaceum, apice iudeterminate dehiscens. Sporangiola minuta 

 irregulariter subcylindrica, gyrosa, tomeutosa, sporas longe pedi- 

 cellatas, minutas, globosas iucludentia. — Fuugus subglobosus, sti- 

 pite brevi radiato suberoso suffultus. Genus Ciliciocarpo Corda 

 proximum, differt peridio communi non evanescenti, sporangiolis 

 flexuosis, elongatis sporisque globosis, stipitatis aliisquo uotis. 



1. Scoleciocarpus tener Berk. Fung. Zeyh. p. 14, t. XXI, f. 3. — oos 



