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1. Sphaerosoma fuscescens Klotszch 1. c. Corda Ic. fung. VI, t. XI, n? 

 f. 100, Tul. F. hypog. 84. — Solidum, sphsericum, nudum, gibbo- 

 sum interdum depressum, sessile, basi fibrillosum, primo extus in- 

 tusque sordide album vel pallide gilvum, dein fuscum; ascis cla- 

 vatis, liyalinis; sporidiis spha^ricis, reticulato-echinatis, pallidis, 19- 



25 a. diam. 



Hah. in silvaticis pr. Berolinum Germanipe (Klotzsch, Bouche). 



2. Sphaerosonia ostiolatum Tul. Fungi hypog. p. 184, t. XIX, f. 1. — ng 

 Globosum, gibboso-sinuatum, supra osculo subrotundo pervium, in- 

 tus plus minus excavatum, glabrum, molliusculum, brunneum; ascis 

 lineari-elougatis, parallele appositis, paraphysibus multo longioribus 

 clavulatis septatis obvallatis; sporidiis perfecte sphGericis, 19-23 a, 

 diam., maturis fuscidulis, verrucis elongatis, crassis, obtusis, pellu- 

 cidis exasperatis. 



Hab. solitarie sub foliis Castaneae coacervatis pr. Paris Galliae 

 (Tulasxe) et pr. Bristol Britanniae (Broome). — 10-15 mm. cir- 

 citer diam. 



3. Sphaerosoma fragile Hesse 1. c. t. VI, fig. 1-6. — Subglobosum, 179 

 gyrosum, sessile, fragile, fibrillosum, subcarnosum, fusco-fibrillo- 

 sum, intus plurilocellatum, l-l^/o ^■^* diam.; ascis cylindraceis, bre- 

 vissime stipitatis, octosporis ; paraphysibus longioribus, septatis, 

 apice clavatis, obvallatis, sporidiis monostichis, perfecte sphaericis 



20 a, diam., initio hyalinis, dein aequaliter verrucosis, brunneis, 

 verrucis truncatis. 



Hab. in silvis fagineis pr. Marburg Germanice. 



RHIZINA Fr. Obs. Mycol. I, p. 161 (1815), S. M. II, p. 32 (Etym. 

 rliiza radix). — Ascoma carnosura, crustaceo-Iaminare, sessile sub- 

 tus bullatum, hymenio supero levi persistente, radiculisque copio- 

 sis longis typice instructum, margine deflexum. Asci cylindracei, 

 octospori, paraphysati. Sporidia ovoideo-oblonga, ampla, continua, 

 hyalina. 



1. Rhizlna inflata (SchaefF.) Quel. Ench. p. 272, Elc. in/fala Schaeff. iso 

 fung. t. 153 (1774), Ehrh. Beytr. 1. c, Phallus acaulis Batsch El. 

 p. 129, Helo. acaulis Pers. syn. p. 614, Obs. Myc 2, p. 20, A. 

 S. p. 298, Rliizina undulala Fries Obs. I, p. 161 (1815), Pers, 

 Myc. Eur. p. 210, Fuck. Symb. App. II, f. 25, Phill. Disc. II, f. 10, 

 Gill. Disc. c. ic. Pat. Tab. an. f, 479, — Effusa, undulata, spadicea, 

 margine inflexo, subtus flocculosa fibrisquepallidis ; ascis cylindra- 



