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JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 



[Vol. 1 



NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI. 



BY J. B. ELLIS AND BENJAMIN M. EVEKHAET, 



Tiie following spscies which, so far as we know, have not hitherto 

 been described, have been received from various localities. 



CoRTiciUM EFiG^UM, E. & E.— Thin, white, uneven, subvelutinous, 

 margin slightly byssoid. Internal structure similar to that of the pre- 

 ceding but less co:npact and lateral branches of the fertile hymenial 

 threads, shorter and less distincily subulate. Spores subglobose, smooth, 

 about 5 in diameter, consisting of a transparent, globose nucleus (8 /^-) 

 enclosed in a membranaceous sack. 



On the bare soil, July,188i. Carpenter, no. 100. 



CoRTiciUM THELEPHOiioiDES, E. & E.— Dirty, yellowish white, sab- 

 ferruginous withi:i, surface tuberculose and subvelutinous. Substance 

 about i mm., thick, composed of closely compacted erect threads with 

 many short, lateral branches, erect and subdichotomous above, the ulti- 

 mate divisions subulate-pointed, and bearing the coarsely tubercular- 

 roughened, globose, brownish, 5—7 spores. Margin concolorous, thin, 

 and the whole closely adnate to the matrix. Outwardly bearing some 

 resemblance to C. ochroleucum, Fr. var. spumeum, B. & Bav., but really 

 quite distinct. On fir logs, July, 1h84. Carpenter, no. 90. 



Lycoperdon lepidophorum, E. & E.— Obovate or subglobose, 

 large, 15 cm. high by 20 cm. broad. Peridium consisting of a thick outer 

 bark or layer which breaks up and falls away in irregular shaped, sub- 

 polygonal fragments 3 — 4 cm. across and 1 mm. thick, with a thickened, 

 white, areolate-marked, raised center of irregularly polygonal outline 

 much like the scales on a turtle's back. When these scales fall off they 

 reveal the thin, soft, paper-like, olive-brown inner peridium which again 

 separates quite readily from the yellowish-olive mass of spores and cap- 

 illitium. The dehiscence appears to be by the irregular rupturing and 

 disappearance of the upper portion of the peridium. The capillitium is 

 quite dense, filling the entire cavity of the peridium without any distinct 

 sterile base, and consists of rather slender (3 — 5 ,'->-) threads, nearly smooth 

 and more or less dichotomously branched. Spores yellowish-olive, 

 globose, strongly echinulate-warted, 4—5 p- in diameter, with only the 

 rudiment of a pedicel. 



Sent from Huron, Dakota, Sept. 1884, by Miss Nellie E. Crouch. 



Scleroderma flavidum, E. & E.— At first entirely buried in the 

 sand, but soon partially emerging and splitting at the apex in a stellate 

 manner into 6—8 subtriangular lobes or teeth and exposing the snuff- 

 brown mass of spores which are soon scattered by the wind and rain, 

 leaving the cup-shaped peridium with its stellate-lobed, reflexed margin 

 entirely empty. Spores globose, rough (coarsely echinulate) snuft-brown, 

 7 — 12 diameter, with a few branching filaments intermixed. Peridium 

 depressed-globose, coriaceous, firm (3—4 cm.), light yellow, roughened 



