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12-16 jx. at thickest part, brown, much branched, tapering at the 

 tips; spores paler, subglobose, smooth, pedicellate, 5-6' p diam. 

 *r. Syst. Myc. iii. p. 24; Berk. Engl. Fl. v. p. 302; Berk. Outl. 

 p. 301, pi. 20, f. 6 ; Cke. Hdbk.p. 372 ; Karst. Myc. Fenn. (Basid.) 

 p. 360, Corda Ic. v. f. 47 ; Mich. t. 97, f. 6. Lycnperdon ardouacum 

 Bull. t. 192, A. B. ; With iv. p. 851. L. plumbeiun Vitt. Mon. 

 P- 174. Exs. :— Klotzsch Fung. Germ. 57 ; Oudemans Fung. 

 Neerl. 117; Kx. Rech. Fl. Crypt. Fland. 1261; Fuckel Fun . 

 Khen. 1262; Klotzsch Herb. Myc. 143. (Specimen in Herb. 

 Berk.) About 1 in. diam. Dry grassy or heathy places. Europe. 

 St. Michael's, Azores. California. The thin papery cortex and 

 absence of hyaline border to the spores separates this species from 

 B. ondispora Cke. & Mass., which it much resembles externally. 



17- B. olivacea Cke. & Mass. n. sp. — Globose; cortex very 

 thin, fugacious ; peridium thick, soft, becoming brittle and break- 

 nig away in patches, pale ochraceous, at length nearly white ; mass 

 oi spores and very dense capillitium citrin then olive; threads 

 tmn, pale, flaccid, simple ; spores globose, smooth, pale yellow, 

 sometimes pedicellate, 5 p. diam. (Type in Herb. Kew.) From 

 H-2 in. across. Allied to B. pannosa Cke. Wimmera, Australia. 

 (B. Reader). England. (Specimen in Herb. Broome, Brit. Mus.) 



18. B.brunnea Berk. Fl. N. Z.ii. p. 189. — Globose, with a minute 

 apiculate rooting base ; cortex thin, evanescent; peridium brownish 

 "mber, smooth, shining, dehiscing by a small irregular slit ; mass 

 of spores and capillitium brown ; threads thick-walled, brown, 

 branched, tapering ; spores smooth, globose, brown, 4-5 p diam., 

 usually furnished with a long slender pedicel. Handbk. Fl. N. Z. 

 018. (Type in Herb. Berk. Kew, no. 4587. About 1 inch across. 

 ^ew Zealand. 



19. B. velutina B. & Br., Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 78. — 

 Globose ; cortex thick, evanescent above, cupulate and persistent 

 at tbe base where it becomes effused and whitish ; peridium bright 

 brown, velvety ; mass of spores and capillitium umber ; threads 

 rarely branching, tapering, pale ; spores globose, smooth, pale, 

 a ~* P diam. (Type in Herb. Berk. no. 4603). From H iu - 



oa S* ™"^ on small branches. Ceylon. 



/0. B. ammophila Lev. Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, ix. p. 129, pi. 9, 



° — Broadly obovate, plicate below and passing into a long, 



st °ut, tapering root ; cortex whitish, broken up into tomentose 



Warts, peridium thin, pallid, dehiscing by a small irregularly torn 



JP* 1 mouth ; mass of spores and capillitium olive ; threads 



ranched, thick- walled, olive ; spores globose, smooth, pale, pedi- 

 cellate, 5-6 p. diam. B. and Br. Ann. Nat. Hist. no. 1088; 



Jj 00 , * Hdbk. p. 372. (Specimen determined by Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley, i n H erl)< Berk n0> 4594). On the ground in sandy 



Places. 1-1* in. high. France. Britain. 



f 1 - B. (?) PALunosALev. Ann. Sci. Nat. 3 ser., v. p. 168.— Ore- 



Mrious. Subglobose or depressed, plicate below and passing 



ruptly into a stout stem-like base becoming attenuated down- 



Jp a ; cortex white, tomentose, evanescent, peridium thin, firm, 



c uraceous, becoming dark brown ; mass of spores and capillitium 



