ttymeiiogastraceaB, Melanogaster. 1(37 



flavescente vel rubescente, in exoleto fiisco-rura; cellulis prinio op- 

 pletis, dein subvacuis, subrotundis; sporis nunierosissimis oblongo- 

 fusiformibus, !)-]0 :i 5-6,5, levibus, 4-8 in quoque basidio subses- 

 silibus, e luteo pellucidis. 



Ilab. in silvis arenosis Italiae borealis, GalliaD. — Fungus avel- 

 lanse vel juglandis niagnitudinem et ultra metiens, odore debili 

 Octaoianicv aslerospermw siniili donatus. 

 0. Melanogaster aureus (Vittad.) Tul. Fungi Hypog. p. 97, Octav/a- s^o 

 nia awea Vitt. Monogr. Tuber. p. 20, t. III, f. 14, llyperrhiza 

 aurea Rabenh. Krypt. FI. I, p. 293. — Oblongus, uniformis, basi 

 appendicem radiciformem gerens; peridio tenui, levi, subalbido, tactu 

 rufescente vel fuscescente; gleba primum dura, aurea, albido-ve- 

 nata, demum raolli nigrescenteque; cellulis parum numerosis, ro- 

 tundatis vel elongatis, subcavis; sporis . . . . 



Hab. in silva quadam prope la Stradella agri Mediolanensis in 

 Italia boreali. — Fungus magnitudinem nucis avellana^ metiens, 

 odore gratissimo donatus. uAn species satis distincta? ». 



7. Melanogaster sarcomelas (Vittad.) Tul. Pungi Hypog. p. 97, Ocla- ^si 

 ciania sarcomelas Vitt. Monogr. Tuber. p. 16, t. III, f. 3. Hi/- 

 perrhijza sarcomelas Rabenh. Krypt. Fl. I, pag. 293. — Minor, 

 difformis, basi vix distincta ; peridio levi, nigro, tenui : gleba ni- 

 gerrima, unicolore; cellulis rhomboideis vel pentagonis, regulari- 

 bus oppletis, parietibus cinereis pellucidis, centro vero opacis ; spo- 

 ris ovatis, majusculis, levibus. 



Ilab. in collibus transpadanis Longobardise in Italia boreali, ra- 

 rissime. — Fungus magnit. fabae exsiccatus contractus, odor fortis 

 atramenti. 



8. Melanogaster durissimus Cooke in Grevillea VIII, p. 394. — Sub- 55? 

 globosus, compressus, difformis aut sulcatus, levis, durissimus, atro- 

 fuscus, demum nigrescens; peridio crasso, subnitido; gleba mire 

 lacunosa ochraceo-alba; cellulis majusculis, creberrimis, atris ; spo. 



ris oblongo-ellipticis, ioaequalibus, brunneis, 5-8^5. 



Ilab. in terra prope Chakrata Indostania? (B. Powell). — M. 

 variegaio major, plus irregularis, etiam ab illo colore cellulisque 

 niajoribus distinctus, Odor fortissimus. Peridium 4 cm. circ. diam. 



9. Melanogaster? caroliniensis (Bosc) De Ton. Upcrhiza carolinien- r.53 

 sis Bosc in Mag. Berl. Gesellsch. V, II, p. 88 t. VI, f. 62, A, B. 

 Ilyperrhiza caroliniensis Spr. Syst. Veg. IV, p. 416. Fr. Syst. Myc. 

 III, p. 56. — Subglobosus v. deorsura leviter productus repandus, 

 ater ; sporis nigris, fcetidis. 



