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to these localities, is found slightly altered in Texas. 

 Mitremyces has not occurred at present in Europe ; but it is 

 found far beyond its former limits, as in Khassya, Java, and 

 Australia. The curious genus Husseia has hitherto been found 

 only in Ceylon, and BrooTneia only at the Cape. "With these 

 and one or two other exceptions, the genera have a wide dis- 

 tribution, and perhaps further researches would much diminish 

 those cases which at present seem isolated. Nidularia, 

 though ascending far to the north, has many representatives 

 in warmer chmates, and several species occur under a tropical 

 sun. Trichamphora, which was originally found in Java, has 

 lately been received from Tahiti, and it has also occurred in 

 South Carolina. Trichocotyle (Corda), formerly Trichocoma, 

 was also first found in Java; but I have it both from the 

 Sikkim Himalayas and South Carolina. 



Fig. 75. 



a. Spore of Trichamphora Pezizoides, Jungh. From Tahiti. 

 6. Cribraria intricata, Sclirad, with a portion of the network and the 

 lower half of the peridium. From South Carolina. 



c. Enerthenema elegans, Bowman, with the bunches of spores. 



d. Portion of hymenium of Lycoperdon codatwm, with the threads. 



e. Sporophores and spores of Lycoperdon giganteum. 



All more or less magnified. 



1. Myxogastres, Fr. 



Whole plant at first gelatinous. Mycehum often veinlike, 

 forming reticulated or anastomosing strata, but sometimes 

 diifuse, giving rise to sessile or stipitate, free or confluent 



