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Fig. I1. 
6. HyGROMETRICI. 
Segments of the outer peridium becoming rigid and inflexed ; 
inner peridium sessile, the mouth lacerate. 
14. G. hygrometricus Pers—Outer peridium multipartite, thick, 
glabrate ; inner peridium subreticulate (Fig. 12). 
Fig. 12. J 
Outer peridium exceedingly thick and rigid; externally canes- 
cent, somewhat woody ; lined inside by a stratum, thick, subdis- 
crete, brownish, waxy, cracked when dry. Inner peridium scurfy 
or reticulate, brown then canescent, 34-1 inch in diameter ; 
Spores large, .008—.010"™ 
15. G. fibrillosus Schw.—Outer peridium multipartite, exter- 
nally fibrillose-scaly ; inner peridium smooth. 
Related to the preceding, but the segments more num 
acuminate, externally often elegantly areolate, with fibrils, rufes- 
cent within. Inner peridium not reticulate, subglobose. It 1s 
said to be about two inches broad when expanded. 
erous, 
