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mouth ene sect plano-conie, eee oe columella rather 
long, clavat Mr. Parfitt adds to this:—‘Outer peridium white, 
with fatfareccans brown scales towards the base, at length expanding 
into six rigidly recurved lacinie; these sometimes again dividing so 
colour. Inner peridium about two shades darker in tint than the 
inner stratum, and appéaring under a lens to be finely felted together ; 
GEASTER LAGENZFORMIS. 
Half actual size ; section real size; spores X 700 diam. 
round the mouth a depressed ring, in which the felted appearance is 
more strongly developed, directed upwards and férming the mouth, 
which is conic, nearly smooth, and very finely fimbricated.’? The 
Exeter plants exactly accord with Vi ttadini’ s pee d figure 
“Tn infancy the p ntique jar with narrow 
mouth, hence the specific name. The spores are perfectly round cag 
smooth, thus differing from the majority of Geasters, and measu 
“00012” diameter, 
“Mr. Parfitt has kindly furnished sufficient dried materials for 
recognition 8 ae ce Herbarium at Kew and the herbarium at the 
British Muse 
“The 
f the eleven Bri pees 
of G. aint av P. (the Bloomsbury G. mammosus not being pica 8 
plant). Out of the nine British species at he and the at the 
Britis um, six each have been indire rectly fariahed Teccek 
cle. 
ritish Mu 
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