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1238. Tylostoma fimbriatum. Fries. Syst. Atyc. in., 43. 
Sacc. Syll. vil., 185. 
Peridium nearly naked, scales deciduous, becoming: tawny, very 
obtuse ; stem tawny ochre, whitish within, distinct from the peri- 
dium, equal, almost naked, stuffed, thicker in the middle, scarcely 
becoming woody ; mouth of the peridium plane, fimbriately torn ; 
spores pale brown, 3^-5 y. 
On sandy soil. W. Australia. Victoria. Lake Albacutya. 
1239. Tylostoma bracliypus. Czern. Bull. Mosc. 1845, 144. 
= Tylostoma granulosum, Lev. Demid. Voy. t. iv., f. 1. 
Sacc. Syll. vn., 193. 
Peridium globose, depressed, brown (to 2| c.m. broad); mouth 
areolate, mammiform, rough, margin torn and toothed, paler ; stem 
rather thick (1-3 c.m. long, 3-8 m.m. thick), rarely clad with thin 
scales. 
On the ground. W. Australia. Victoria. 
1240. Tylostoma album. Mass. Grev. xix., 95. 
Stem 1-5 c.m. high, • 5 m.m. thick, ochraceous, longitudinally 
wrinkled ; peridium globose, minutely umbonate, white, glabrous 
and shining; mass of spores ochraceous-cinnamon ; capillitium 
dense, threads hyaline, thick-walled, often branched, axils lunate, 
aseptate, variable in thickness, from 8-12 y. spores yellow-brown, 
globose, coarsely warted, 10-11 y diam. 
On the ground. W. Australia. 
1241. Tylostoma pulchellum. Sacc. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 
1889, t. 14,/. 4. 
Minute, shortly stipitate ; stem cylindrical, smooth, longi- 
tudinally striate, whitish, dilated at the base (5 m.m. long, 1^ m.m. 
thick) ; peridium membranaceous, subglobose (7-8 m.m. diam.), in- 
vested below the middle with a rough, friable, bright ochraceous 
coating, naked above, greyish yellow, delicately puberous, pierced 
with a roundish ostiolum, margin equal, gleba cinnamon. Spores 
subglobose (5-6 y diam.), ferruginous yellow, flocci sparingly forked, 
hyaline. 
On branches ? Victoria. 
Genus 20. BATTARREA. Pert. Syn. 129. 
Peridium composed of two membranes, volvifonn, dehiscing in 
lobes, distinct from the ascending receptacle, which is stipitate, 
pileate, pulverulent above, membrane of the interior peridium w T hen 
broken, calyptrate. Subterranean peridium rooting. 
1242. Battarrea plialloides. Dicks. Pers. Syn. 129, t. 3, 
f. 1. Sacc. Syll. vn., 195. 
Volva ovate, bicorticate, whitish, replete with mucus, stem 
cylindrical, a little attenuated towards each end, straight, fleshy, 
replete with mucilage, at first short, afterwards quickly elongated 
upwards ; peridium campanulate, smooth and even below, above 
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