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Kew.) Wingate to Zuni, S.E. New Mexico; 6-8000 ft. (Prof. 

 Moseley). About H in. high by 1 in. across. 



27. B. stuppba Berk., Grev. h. 2, p. 50.— Subglobose, or ellipsoid, 

 sessile; cortex whitish, thin, evanescent ; peridium bright brown 

 becoming silvery, shining ; mass of spores and dense capillitium 

 brown; threads branched, thick-walled, brown; spores globose, 

 smooth, pale umber, sometimes with a short pedicel, 5 /x. diam. 

 (Type in Herb. Berk. 4602). About 2 in. by 1J in. On the 

 ground. Texas. 



28. B. cinerea Ellis, Bull. Washburn Coll. i., no. 2, p. 40 

 (1885). — Globose, 5-6 cm. in diameter with a short, sub fusiform 

 root-like base ; peridium coriaceous, about 1 mm. thick, smooth or 

 nearly so, entire ; capillitium cinereous-grey, abundant, the 

 threads 3-4 p. diam., more or less branched, and attached on all 

 sides to the inner surface of the peridium ; spores globose, clay- 

 coloured or cinereous, echiimlate, 4-5 /x. in diameter. Prairie 

 Ford, Co. Kansas, August. 



29. B. amethystina Cke. & Mass., Grev. (March, 1888). 

 Globose, or rather attenuated and plicate below ; cortex evanescent, 

 peridium shining, papery, fragile, breaking away in patches ; mass 

 of spores and capillitium bright amethyst ; threads about as thick 

 as diameter of spores, branched, equal, almost colourless ; spores 

 pale lilac, globose, smooth, very copious, 5-6 /a. diam. (Type in 

 Herb. Berk. Kew). Niger Expedition. (Barter.) About 1£ in. 



diam. 



30. B. castanea, Lev. Ann. Sci. Nat., ser 3, v. p. 162.— 



Globose; cortex ; peridium parchment-like, black, byssoid 



below; mass of spores and dense capillitium bright olive; spores 

 globose, smooth, with long pedicels. Size of a chestnut. Cape of 

 Uood Hope. 



31. B. Cisneori- Speg. Fung. Argent. Pug. 4, p. 100.— Globoso- 

 depressed or globoso-turbinate ; cortex absent ; peridium very 

 smooth, membranaceo-cartilaginous, above brownish orange, 

 bnghter below ; threads of capillitium fulvous slender (3-5 fi. 

 Muck) simple, smooth, sparingly septate ; spores globose, (3-5 /*. 

 diam.) smooth (or very minutely rugulose) tawny orange. In dry 

 Baady places. Uruguay. Belated to B. bicolor Lev. i 40-70'" diam. 

 -30-40- alt.) 



32. B. dubiosa Speg. Fung. Argent. Pug. iv. p. 101.— Sub- 

 globose, more or less rooting ; cortex white, almost smooth or 

 sparingly verruculose, thin, evanescent, densely interspersed with 

 particles of sand ; peridium very thin, at first white then pale 

 °hvaceo-fulvous, more or less covered with persistent fragments of 

 the cortex ; threads of capillitium slender (3-5 /a. thick), branched, 



*/ J he extreme length and amount of detail introduced into Bp kum'b 

 s peciac characters suggest the idea that they are detailed d< liptions of 

 J***!'<fcali rather than otherwk*. The constant repetition of general feature 

 J ob J e ^tionab!e, and the statement that the peridium is at fil closed, ti i 



peeorm 5 open, is simply absurd. Pull det as to the chang dring pi e 

 v tlle Kl< ura highly instruc ve and interestiai but out of place in a specific 



