Okd.IX. Tribe II. FUNGI GASTEROMYCETES. 
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16478 Ellipt.or obi. atten. each end black somev. shin, obscure, striat. Sum. of sporulifer. cells obtuse, club-shap. 
16479 Innate scattered elliptical obtuse rather tnmid smooth naked black with a longitudinal depression 
16480 Minute black irregularly gregarious oval or roundish convex, Sporuliferous tubes club-shaped 
16481 Gregarious black oblong or roundish-elliptical obtuse somewhat striate 
16482 Convex tumid oblong-elliptical very black disposed in a subconcentric manner, Sporules large obi. yellow 
16483 Bursting through the bark oblong elliptical flexuose somewhat ventricose greyish-brown 
164S4 Gregarious linear narrow parallel smooth of dull black 
16485 Minute oval elliptical very black disposed in a subconcentric manner, Sporules large oblong yellow 
16486 Very min. oval shin, somew. plane growing longitudinally on leaf, Sporulifer. tubes clavate acum. at apex 
16487 Very minute linear elliptical black mostly on the ribs of the leaf or culm 
Division IV. Xylomacei. 
164S8 Scattered or gregarious orbicular ^ to | line broad very dark a little ribbed and elevated in the centre 
16489 Orbicular opaque bossed in the centre at length entirely separating. Disk whitish 
16490 Black spreading in large irregular spots which are either uniform or composed of somewhat distinct 
dots dehiscence irregular and rugose 
16491 Large irregular very thick black white within 
16492 Gregarious sometimes crowded roundish slightly convex brown at length blackish 
164S)3 Gregarious rarely scattered over the whole surface flattish irregular smooth dull-brown 
16494 Scattered black unequal in size plane : the surface rugose and somewhat papillose in the centre 
16495 Minute crowded often in circular groups round black shining plane rugose 
16496 Minute roundish regularly scattered black shining smooth : the upper half separating 
16497 Clustered orbicular black becoming open. Margin erect somewhat crenate. Disk pale 
16498 Perithecia even much crowded black : the radiating fibres simple 
16499 Filam. black radiat. subdichotora. at length covered with confluent rugoso-plicate shining black tubercles 
16500 Filam. very min. extremely fine branch, at length subdist. black. Tubercles producing a pale spot on leaf 
Class III. Trichospermi. — Division I. Lycoperdinei. 
16501 Stipes short somewhat fibrous, Peridium scabrous always closed, Sporules ovate 
16502 Stipes smoothish, Peridium globose. Orifice flat 
16503 Large gregarious subglobose yellowish-brown, Scales small numerous. Stipes subelongated incrassated 
below lacunose and variously divided at the root 
16504 Globose subdepressed very firm smooth or warty sess. or with a very short thick stipes. Root scarcely any 
16505 Middle-sized roundish long-rooted pale lemon-color obsoletely scaly. Scales thickish 
16506 Gregarious smaller somewhat spotted smooth brown. Root hard fibrous 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
force. Their surface is smooth black. Within they are replete with a somewhat gelatinous granulose mass, 
containing subglobose sporidia. The above is a description of the usual appearance of this plant. 
A variety, however, occurs in the form of a ring or annulus, the centre being unoccupied. Sometimes the 
perithecia are scattered in irregular groups, a few together, and may even occur solitary. 
2439. Asteroma. So named by DecandoUe ; but we know not with what meaning. Many of the substances 
referred to this genus are believed to be merely young states of various kinds of Dothidea ; some are the black 
lines by which certain Pyrenomycetes are bounded ; others are merely darkened veins of leaves. To this the 
whole of Actinonema of Persoon, and several of his Capillarias are to be referred. 
2440. Onygena. So called from owl, a hoof, and yuyofx-oct, to be born, in allusion to the singular circumstance 
of the original and only species being always found on old horse-hoofs in shady woody places. 
2441. Tulostoma. From rvXo;, a wart, and crofjca., the mouth, in reference to the nature of the orifice by 
which the seeds of this plant are dispersed. T. brumale is found on the mossy tops of walls about London in 
the winter and spring. It may easily be overlooked for some unexpanded Agaric. 
2442. Scleroderma. So called from <rx,Xr)^6i, hard, and h^/Mn, skin, in allusion to the hardness of the coat of 
the species. S. spadiceum is found on heaths in England, but is very rare ; it is about the size of a chesnut, 
rather depressed at the top. 
