Hyiuenogastraceaj, Octaviania. 150 



res, rotiuulato-iri-ogulares cunctce prinuun vacuio, doin siibfarct.T ; 

 septa e Hbris byss.iccecis longitrorsurn laxeque intexta, hinc illinc 

 scissilia et cellulosa. Sporae sphairoideae, 3-4 in quoque basidio, 

 sterigraate filiformi suffulta?, maturitate obscura^ echinulatfr. — 

 Fungi globosi prinuun tnolles mutabiles, tandem gelatinosi humidi 

 fatiscentesque vel arescentes et perennantes, maturitate odori. 



I. Octaviania asterosperma Vittad. Monogr. Tuber. p. 17, t. III, ^^g 

 f. 7., Tul. Fungi Hyp. p. 78, t. XI, f. I, Corda Icon. VI, t. VII, 

 f. 64. — Regulariter globosa, subinde reniformis, basi absorbenti 

 longiuscule producta, rnycelio late in terra diffuso semner instru- 

 cta; peridio extus continuo vel interduin tessellato-rimoso, levi, 

 arachnoideo-fibrilloso, initio candido, dein albido partim ffirugino- 

 so-cyanescenti tandemque atro; septis inunersis, angustis, byssoi- 

 deis, facile scissilibus; cellulis inaequalibus, minutis, periphericis 

 sphaericis, centrum versus amplioribus; sporis sterigmatibus lon- 

 giusculis fulvis, sphcericis, creberrime echinatis 12-13 y-. diam., fer- 

 rugineis, floccis nonnullis vix inspersis. 



Uab. in silvis Italiae. Gallia?, Angliae occidenlalis et Germania?. 

 — Fungus avellan» magnit. metiens, odore grato, suadente Vitta- 

 dini, quasi Ocymi vel casei recentis donatus. — Var. depauperata 

 Tul. loc. cit. t. Xf, f. 2. A typo differt basi sterili subnulla, cel- 

 lulis humore copioso sporisque innatantibus paucis subovatis, quasi 

 striato-rugulosis, sterigraate brevissimo fultis. Sub foliis delapsis 

 Quercus suberis in Gallia. 



?. Octaviania Stepliensii (Berk.) Tul. Fungi Hypog. p. 78, t, XXI, 527 

 f. 6, Corda Icon. VI, t. VII. f. 67, Hydnangium Stephensii Berk. 

 in Ann. Nat. Hist. XIII, p. 352, n. 300. — Irregularis, oblonga, 

 extus rufa, basi plicato-rugosa, cribrosa, radicibus fibrosis insi- 

 dens, intus alba minute cellulosa, lactiflua, demum aeri exposita 

 rufa; cellulis non farctis; sporis primura globosis, irregularibus, 

 rugulosis, 10-12,8 [j.. diam., demum echinulatis. 



Hab. in terra prope Clifton Anglia; et in California Amer. bo- 

 realis. — Fungus circ. 2 cm. latus, odore Lactarii theiogali do- 

 natus, siccatus lac albura effundens. — Var. Raveneiii Kerk. : Major, 

 extus albida, obovata vel subglobosa. In terra arenosa Caroliua: 

 inferioris (Ravenel. Curtis) et Gainesville Floridse (Ravenel) Ame- 

 ricae borealis, 



;x Octaviania mutabilis Koum. in Rev. Uyc. 1885. p. 23. — Subglo- 52S 

 bulosa, alba, tactu vinosa, dein nigrescens, basi fibrillis albis in- 

 structa; peridio separabili, tomento fugaci obtecto; gleba priraum 



