Ilymenogastracefo, Phlyctospora. 170' 



gmatibus filiformibus; sporis ellipticis v. obovatis, apiculatis, longi-* 

 tudiiialiter vel oblique striatis, 10-12 ^; 7-8, pallide brunneis. 



Ilab. in humo in California. — Fungus 10 cm. latus, 3 cm. 

 crassus, odorem poponis putridi emittens. 



MACOWANITES Kalchbr. in Garden. Chron., 1876, p. 785 (Etym. a 

 Mac Owan, cui genus merito dicatum), Macowa^iia Kalchbr. — 

 Peridium Epigfeum, stipitatum, carnosum, in centro solidum sed 

 circuracirca cavernosum. Cellulae hymenio vestitae, subtus aperta), 

 elongatas, in stipitem decurrentes. Basidia bispora. Sporae globosse, 

 hyalina?, tuberculatrc, 



1. Macowanites agaricinus Kalch. loc. cit. — Hemisphaericus, sursum le- 588 

 vis impolitus, sordide brunneus, deorsura in processum stipitiformem, 

 glabrum, album productus; gleba solida, pallida, in arabitu fovens 

 cellulas hjmenii copiosas, subtus in longitudinem protractas, aper- 

 tas, aeri pervias, albas; odore gravi, alliaceo; sporis amplis, glo» 

 bosis, episporio crasso, tuberculoso. 



Ilab. in campis inter gramina ad pedem Acaciarum pr. Soraerset 

 East Africa) australis (Mac Owan). — Magnitudine Solani iuberosi 

 minoris. Procul dubio edulis. 



Genera minus nota. 



PHLYCTOSPORA Corda in Sturm D.C. Fl. p. 47, Anleit. p. 95 (Etyra. 

 a phlyctis vesicula et spora). — Peridiura siraplex, coriaceum, in- 

 tus carnosum., dein cellulosum; cellulae farctne, irregulares; sporte 

 aggregata?, composit;^, decolorantes, substautiae immersa}; episporio 

 celluloso-hyalino; nucleo globoso colorato; capillitium et basidia 

 nuUa (?). — Fungi subterranei. 



1. Phlyctospora fusca Corda Anleit. t. C, 37, f. 7-10. — Hypogaea, 589 

 tuberculiformis, nuda, levis, brunnea; gleba primo alba, dein nigre- 

 scente carnoso-firma; sporis coacervatis, globosis, brunneis, epispo- 

 rio celluloso-hyalino tectis. 



Hab. ad radices arborum in silvis Germaniae, Bohemiae et Lu- 

 sitaniae. 



2. Phlyctospora Magni-Ducis Sorok. Mater. p. 30, t. II, f. 21-34. 590 

 — Subemergens, tuberculiformis verrucoso-tuberculosa, fuscidula; 

 gleba carnoso-firmiuscula, fusca; sporis globosis, coacervatis, aspe- 

 rulis, 3-4 u.. diara., brunneolis. 



Ilab. ad terram in Sibiria asiatica. — Peridium circ. 2 cm. 

 altum, 3 cm. vix latum. 



