Obh. IX. Tribe II. 
FUNGI GASTEROMYCETES. 
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16341 Bound somewhat rugose whitish-brown slightly fibrous at base 
Division III. Nidulariaccce. 
16342 Obconical hirsute bright-brown striated inside 
16343 Campanulate villous cinereous-brown lead-colored and shining inside 
16344 Campanulate-cylindrical truncate at each end somew. downy ochrey-brown smooth and pale-yellow inside 
16345 Tubercles superficial deformed confluent, at first sight resembling some kind of compound sphosria 
16346 About the size of a grain of sand 
Division IV. Xarpoboli. 
16347 Resembling to the naked eye flour scattered about 
16348 Subglobose safFron-color gregarious sessile 
16349 Stem-like receptacle inflated upwards (rarely filiform) Pointed capitular vesicle round depressed black 
/8 Stem-like receptacle globose. Stipes oblong filiform. Capitular vesicle dot-like black 
16350 Globose pale-yellow. Orifice regular stellate toothed 
Class II. PyRENOMYCETES. — Divisiou I. SpJiceriacei. 
16351 Gregarious branched compressed black white and farinaceous towards the apex downy at the base 
16352 Gregarious somewhat tufted black. Peduncles glabrous more or less united at their base, Receptacle 
cylindrical terminated by a sterile acuminate apex 
16353 Black gregar. simp, or divid. Pedunc. pass, into a ventric. recept. contain, spherules ben. its whole surface 
16354 Stipes elongat. cylindr. equal somew. flexuose, Recept. smooth roundish-ovate brown. Spherules obi. pale 
IGooS Fleshy, Head globose fuscous. Stipes thin very long 
16356 Fleshy, Head ovate globose brown. Stipes yellow becoming blackish 
16351 Fleshy soft, Head clavate pale tan-color confluent with the stipes 
16358 Corky simple and branch, compressed at first whitish powdery afterwards naked and black. Stipes villous 
,S Smaller simple. Head distinct cylindrical conical acuminate 
16359 Stipitate turbin. Disk truncate white dotted v/ith black blackish externally 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
roe of a fish in appearance, and to poppy-seed in size. The color is a tawny yellow. Each individual is globular, 
attached at the bottom by capillary roots, and crowned by a small papillary tubercle of a more orange or golden 
hue than the rest. 
2418. Pilobolus. Named from sr/Aa?, a cap, and (iaXXco. A very natural genus, consisting of gregarious little 
fungi, of a very fugacious nature, inhabiting dung, appearing in the summer and autumn; when full grown 
they resemble species of Mucor, but in a younger state they are more evidently interwoven, and resemble 
Sphaeria or Sclerotium. 
2419. Sphcerobolns. From trc^uipct, a globe, and j3<xXXu. The peridium is double, m.embranous inside, at length 
becoming elastically inverted, and emitting a globose solid sporangium, filled with sporidia clustered in the 
centre. Epiphytous persistent plants, generally appearing in the autumn. S. stellatus is found in various parts 
of Europe in autumn upon rotten wood or branches of trees, heaps of sawdust, or in the tan-pits of hothouses. 
In an early state each plant consists of a pale yellow globe larger than a mustard seed. Several such grow 
crowded in patches, bound down as it were by a fine cottony web. After a while each plant bursts into several 
starry rays, and by a momentary explosion, projects to the distance of six or eigrit inches a whitish globular 
mass of powdery seeds from its internal cavity. Sometimes this ball of seeds remains sticking to the points of 
the rays. When fallen to a distance, the skin of this ball is found empty, the seeds having flown out, in its 
passage, through a hole in its base. (Smith.) 
2420. Xylaria. From ^nXov, wood, in allusion to their station, or to their woody and durable texture. Once 
included in Sphsria. 
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