*34 A REVISION OF THE GENUS BOV1STA. 



olive; threads rufous-olive, thick- walled, branched, tips tapering; 

 spores same colour, globose, smooth, pedicellate, 4-5 p. (Specimen 

 from Leveille in Herb. Berk. no. 4595). Agrees with Lycopenhn 

 in having a sterile base, but is a true Jjori«ta in other respects. 

 Peridium about U in. diam., 1 in. high ; stem 1 in. long, f in. 



thick at apex. Amongst sphagnum. Malesherbes. 



22. B. Abyssinica Mont. BylL Crypt, p. 287.— Obovate, taper- 

 ing into a stout rooting base ; cortex broken up into minute white 

 persistent warts; peridium papery, smoky-brown, or lead-colour, 

 mouth small, determinate ; mass of spores and capillitium dingy 

 Oliver threads thick- walled, much branched, tapering, pale 

 brownish olive ; spores same colour, globose, smooth, sometimes 

 with a long slender pedical, 5-6 /x. diam. (Specimen from 

 Montague in Herb. Berk. no. 4596\ Abyssinia. (11,000 ft.). 

 About li in. high by 1 in. broad. 



28. B. radicata Mass. n. sp. — Globose or broadly obovate, 

 slightly plicate below, and contracted into a stout rooting base ; 

 coi-tex breaking up into minute whitish persistent warts ; peridium 

 thin, tough, silvery, becoming ferruginous towards the base ; 

 mouth small, subrotund; capillitium dense and with mass of spores 

 mnber-brown, tinged olive; threads thick- walled, brown, much 

 branched and tapering, often flexuous towards the tips ; spores 

 globose, smooth, pale brown, sometimes shortly pedicellate, 4-5 //-. 

 cham. (Type in Herb. Kei . From §-H in. across. Cameroon 

 Mountains, 8-10,000 ft. (Mann). 



24. B. cervina Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist., ix. p. 447 (1842).— 

 bubglobose, with an abrupt stout rooting base; cortex rigid, 

 evanescent above or remaining as scale-like patches, usually 

 persistent below ; peridium thin, pale cinnamon ; mouth small, 

 apical, subrotund ; mass of capillitium and spores brown ; threads 

 flaccid, unbranched, pale ; spores globose, smooth, very pale brown, 

 minutely pedicellate, 5-6 /*. diam. (Type in Herb. Berk. KeW, 

 no. 4586). Bovhta atpera Lev. Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, v. p. 162, as 

 proved by examination of tvpe-specimen in Herb. Mus. Paris. 

 ''Driest part of plains, Rio Negro, Patogonia, Darwin." Chili. 

 Ceylon. New Zealand. Prom i-1 in. across. 



25. B. Uruguayhnsis Speg. Fung. Argent. Pug. iv. p. 102.— 

 Woboso- depressed ; cortex rather thick, persistent and cnpulate at 

 the base, dirty brown, fragile ; peridium thickish, grey or brownish 

 grey, coriaceous, rigid, smooth above, tomentose below, dehiscing 



by a small, regular, subfimbriate mouth; mass of spores and 



(10-15"' wide by 8-10''''hi'di)7~ Sandy places near Concordia 

 Uruguay. ° 



26. B. obovata Mass. n. sp.— Broadly obovate, plicate below, 

 with a short, thick, rooting base ; cortex whitish, evanescent; 

 peridium fragile, papery, silvery ; capillitium dense and with mass 

 of spores umber; threads thick-walled, branched, pale umber; 

 spores same colour, globose, smooth, 4 //.. diam. (Type in Herb. 



