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gleba broken up into minute, irregularly angular or sinuous cavities, 
septa thick, firm, persistent, not splitting ; basidia clavate, con- 
stantly bisporous, sterigmata rather thick, divergent, spores 
coloured. 
1233. Protoglossum luteum. Mass. Grev. xix., 97. 
Peridinm cylindrical, 5 c.m. high by 2 c.m. broad, growing 
vertically, with the extreme apex appearing above ground, and of 
an orange colour, the subterranean portion yellowish, smooth, 
even ; cavities of gleba about 1 m.m. diameter ; spores globose, 
orange-brown, epispore raised into prominent flattened ridges that 
anastomose to form a polygonal network, 14 p diameter. 
Victoria. Queensland. (Fig. 134). 
Sub-Family B. Diplodermese. 
Peridinm single or double, stipitate or sessile, gleba floccoselv 
pulverulent. 
Genus 19. TYLOSTOMA. Pers. 
Peridium stipitate, double, external at first fleshy, then falling 
away, internal papery or coriaceous, persistent, pierced with a 
mouth at the vertex, rarely dehiscing irregularly; stem long; 
gleba fleshy, then powdery, capillitium branched ; spores globose. 
1234. Tylostoma mammosum. Mich. Fr. Syst. Myc. in., 
42. Sacc. Syll. vti„ 175. 
Stem fistulose (with a central thread in the cavity of the stem), 
equal, straight, not sulcate, covered more or less with deciduous 
scales, as if at the base forming a fibrous volva, becoming woody 
when old and smooth ; peridium globose, cortex powdery, seceding, 
whitish, with a minute, prominent mammose mouth, not fimbriate. 
Spores ferruginous, globose, 4-5 p diam. 
On the ground. Victoria. Queensland. 
1235. Tylostoma leprosum. Kalch. Grev. iv., 72. Sacc. 
Syll. vn., 177. 
With the habit of T. mammosum ; peridium clad with a lurid 
umber, deciduous, mealy scurf ; spores minute, scarcely echinulate, 
as well as the cafiillitium flesh colour, becoming reddish. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
1236. Tylostoma Wightii. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1842, 157. 
Sacc. Syll. vn., 182. 
Peridium papery, ovately globose (2 c.m. broad) ; stem rather 
scaly (21 c.m. long), equal; mouth of peridium scarcely prominent, 
appendiculate ; spores not echinulate. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
1237. Tylostoma maximum. Cke. ij- Mass. Grev. xv,, 94. 
Sacc. Syll. vii., 184. 
Peridinm smooth, ochraceous, with a rounded mouth (nearly an 
inch diam.) ; stem elongated, equal, of the same colour, fibrillose 
below, striately sulcato above, capillitium tawny orange. Spores 
globose, warted, 7 p diam., bright golden tawny. 
On the ground. Gascovgne River. (Fig. 113.) 
