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like anything belonging to Nidularia. The size, and the mention 
0: arly point lu 
bolus stellatus, and may safely be named S. dentatus. 
The following are contrasted characters of the two species :— 
Spherobolus stellatus. S. dentatus. 
At first wholly immersed in pro- Mycelium, if any, very scanty, 
i and brownish. a 
Peridium externally pale livid 
uff to vinous brownish,. pale 
brown or brown, thinly covered 
with fine erect white hairs. 
Peridium opening with 6-7 some- Peridium opening with 4-7 acute 
what broad, sharp teeth, glab- teeth, clad with fine long con- 
rous at the edge. verging white hai t the edge, 
which in infancy cover the 
opening as in some Pezize. 
Interior of peridium biscuit- Interior of peridium white, 1vory, 
colour, yellow or orange. white-greyish, or faint olive- 
fuse white mycelium. 
Peridium externally white or 
nearly so. 
ae ivory. 
Peridiolum pale yellowish to Peridiolum reddish brown. 
orange. 
Habit, usually crowded. Habit, scattered. 
Average diameter 4, inch. Average diameter ;1, inch. 
Habitat, sawdust, wood, twigs,&c. Habitat, dead elder. 
Spa2#Rosowus pentatus (With.) W. Sm.—Peridium finely pilose 
with erect hairs, springing from scanty brownish mycelium, ope- 
ing above in a 4~7-stellate manner, the rays clad with long white 
hairs, which at first converge over the opening ; outside pale livid- 
buff to vinous brownish, pale brown, or brown ; inside white, ivory, 
white-greyish, or faint olive-ivory; ejecting a reddish-brown perl- 
diolum. +; in. diam. Scattered. Dead elder, Failand, Somerset. 
R. Baker. Aug., 1888. 
THE OXLIP, COWSLIP, AND PRIMROSE. 
By Epwarp G. Ginsert. 
In April of this year I was at Montreux, and observing that in 
that neighbourhood Primula elatior Jacq. and P. veris L. are very 
d P. acaulis L., though much less so, i8 fairly 
i fully noting what the relations of 
im vast numbers on the hill-sides, and in the flat marshy valley of 
_ the Rhone near Villeneuve, but never intermixing very freely. It 
