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which is single, solid, subglobose, polysporous ; spores globose or 
ovate. 
1217. Sphterobolus stellatus. Tode Meek. p. 43. Sacc. 
Syll . 136. 
External peridium subsphasroid, rather fleshy, dehiscing with 
5-8 acute, equal teeth, yellow, growing pallid; interior peridium 
pellucid, whitish ; sporangia fleshy ; spores ellipsoid, spheeroid, 
hyaline, even, 8 9 X 6 p. 
On wood, chips, etc. Tasmania. Victoria. (Fig. 107.) 
Family III. LYCOFERDACEAl. 
Globose or pear-shaped, sessile or stipitate; peridium mem- 
branaceous or coriaceous, dehiscing irregularly or with a month; 
gleba floccose, powdery ; spores spherical. 
Sub Family A. Podaxinese. 
Peridium traversed by a columella or continuation of the stem. 
Genus 12. SECOTIUM. Kunze Flora 1840, 321. 
External peridium volvseform ; stem firm, entering the interior 
of the peridium ; internal peridium pileate, closed, then opening 
at the base, internally veined and cellular ; spores simple. 
1218. Secotium acuminatum. Mont. FI. Alg. 371, t. 22, /. 
4.=S. Czerniavii., Mont. Boi. Rev. Sacc. Syll. vir., 146. 
Solitary ; peridium ovoid, tan-colour or ochraceons (1-2 in. high), 
acuminate at the apex, cuticle breaking up into scales, plicate and 
repand at the base ; stem short, turbinate (1^-3 in. long) ; cavities 
gyrose, transversely seriate, septa thin ; spores spherical, even, 
yellowish olive. 
On the ground. W. Australia. 
1219. Secotium coarctatum. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1845, 63. 
t. i.,/. 3. Sacc. Syll. vil., 150. 
Minute, strong scented ; peridium obovate, umbilicate, margin 
acute, bent inwards (|-| in. broad), veil marginal, torn, appendi- 
culate ; stem slender, cylindrical, even, smooth (f in. high), pass- 
ing through the hymenium ; spores minute, obovate, nucleate, 
apiculate, ochre, then cinereous, 6 p long. — Corda Icon, vi., t. 6, 
f. 25-30. 
On the ground. W. Australia. 
1220. Secotium melanosporum. Berk. Rook. Journ. 1845, 
62, t. 1, Fig. 2. Succ. Syll. vn., 151. 
Ca:spitosc ; pileus (2-3 in. diam.) subglobose, at first umbilicate, 
sparingly furfuraceous, except at the apex, margin obtuse and 
rounded, veil torn and appemliculate ; stem (2-2^ x in.), solid, 
passing through the hymenium, nearly equal ; spores obliquely 
ovate, pedunculate, dark chocolate brown, 9 p long. — Corda Icon. 
vi., t. 6,/. 19-24. 
On the ground. W. Australia. 
