A SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIK.E. 137 



Amer. Bor. in Amer. Piiil. Soc. 1831, p. 256. Peridium some- 

 times a foot in diameter. Gregarious, in orchards- Bethlehem, 

 United States. 



The above description includes the leading characters and is 

 taken from the lengthened description by Schweinitz. 



39. B. spumosa Lev. Ann. Sci. Nat. 1844, xi. p. 219. — Globose, 

 small, covered with a dense white frothy cortex which disappears ; 

 mass of capillitium and spores brown. On the ground. Sumatra. 



SPECIES EXCLUDED. 



Burista Ulacina Berk, and Mont., transferred to Lycoperdon. 

 B\ ddicata Berk.~ Lycuperdon delicatum B. and C, which again 

 is synonymous with Lycoperdon Bevkeleyi Mass. Mon. Lye. n. 33. 



Description of Figures. — Fig. 1, Bovista ovalispora, nat. size; 2, spores of 

 same x 400; 2 a, spore of same x 750. 3, spores of B. nigrescens x 400. 4, H. 

 hyalothrix, nat. size; 5, spores of same x 400. 6, B. circumschsa, nat. size; 

 7, spores of same x 400. 8, B. olivacea, nat. size ; 9, spores of same x 400. 

 JO, B. irregularis, nat. size; 11, spores of same x 400. 12. B. radicatu, nat. 



•; 13, spores of same x 400. 14, B. amethystina, nat. size; 15, spores of 

 *ame x 400. 16, B. velutina, nat, size; 17, spores of same x 400. 18, B. ccr- 

 w«*j nat. size ; ID, spores of same X 400. 20, spores of B. juglandiformis x 400. 



A SYNOPSIS OF TILLANDSIE/E. 

 By J. G. Baker, F.R.S., F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 111.) 



207. Tillandsia gracilis Griseb.in (Jott.Nacht. 1864, 17. Yrie^a 

 gracilis Gaudich, Atlas Bonite t. 67 ; Wawra in (Ester. Bot. Zeitsch. 

 1880, 218 ; French trans. 68 ; Itiu. Prin. Sax. Cob. 164 ; Kegel 

 Gartenfl. 1886, 161, fig. 11 ; Descr. Plant, Nov. fasc. x. 30.— Leaves 

 30-40 in a dense rosette, lanceolate from an ovate base, 2-3 in. 

 broad, thin, flexible, subglabrous, light green spotted with purple, 

 U H ft. long, H in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to 

 the point. Peduncle slender, as long as the leaves ; bract-leaves 

 small, adpressed. Panicle lax, diffuse ; lower branches B-9 in. 

 long, 6-8 flowered, with a slender flexuose rachis ; branch-bracts 

 ^»all, ovate ; lower flowers patent ; flower-bracts oblong, under an 

 mch long, red with a green tip. Calyx greenish, an inch long, 

 ietal-blade yellow, oblong, ^ in. long. Capsule-valves lanceolate, 

 H in. long. 



Hab. Forests of Southern Brazil, Burchell 2354! Gaudici wl ; 

 yemerara, Jenman 3828 ! Wawra and Maty ii. 202, 515. Intro- 

 duced lately into cultivation by Dr. Glaziou. A plant gathered 

 Jjy Salzmann at Bahia differs only by its lorate leaves with a 

 deltoid cuspidate tip. Grisebach refers here Kegel's 234 from 

 {Jatch Guiana, and K. Koch T. paten* Herb. Willd., gathered by 

 W'miboldt at Caripe, briefly described by Schultes Syst. Veg. vn. 

 1 — >. Vlatystachy* patens K. Koch. Ind. Hem. Ilort. Bcrol. 1873. 



