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•oblong, smooth, pallid, 16-20 X 7-9 p, stem-like base, short, 
brown, irregularly lacunose (1 c.m. long). 
On sandy soil. W. Australia. 
1247. Calostoma fusca. Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist, hi., p. 325. 
Mass. Mon. t. 3, /. 24. Sacc. Syll. vn., 206. 
Simple or coespitose; exoperidium dark brown externally, dingy 
red within, endoperidium pale brown, subglobose (1-11; c.m. diam.), 
ostiolum vermilion, teeth erect, 4-6, forming an umbo before ex- 
pansion, spore-sac white ; spores elliptic-oblong, minutely verru- 
culose, pallid, stem-like base stout, elongated (2-3 c.m.), brown, 
costate, lacunose (1 c.m. thick). 
On the ground, etc. Victoria. Lake Muir. Tasmania. (Fig. 115.) 
1248. Calostoma viridis. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1851, 201. 
Mass. Mon. Cal. t. 3, f. 29. Sacc. Syll. VII., 207. 
Exoperidium in the form of dingy green irregular scales, adher- 
ing to the globose, pale green endoperidium (2 c.m. diam.), ostio- 
lum vermilion, teeth 5-7. subacute, erect, and forming a cone before 
expansion, spore-sac pale ; spores globose, closely tuberculose, very 
pale ochre, 18-15 p diam.; stem-like base stout, greenish, irregu- 
larly lacunose (2 x 1-1^ c.m.). 
On the ground, etc. Victoria. 
1249. Calostoma aeruginosa. Mass. Grev. xix., 96. 
Exoperidium even, becoming broken up into small, irregular and 
verdigris-green sqnamules ; endoperidium subglobose, dingy green, 
1x1^ c.m. diam., ostiolum red inside, margins of the 5 sub- 
erect, acute teeth, orange ; spore-sac pale ; spores elliptical, warted, 
pale yellow, 12 x 6 /a; stem-like base irregularly lacunose, dirty 
brown, 4-6 c.m. long. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
Genus 22. GEASTER. Mich. Nova. PI. 220. 
Peridium double, persistent, exterior corticate, splitting in a 
stellate manner, distinct from the interior, which is papery, dehis- 
cing at the apex ; capillitium lax, adnate to the peridium on all 
sides ; spores interspersed. 
1250. Geaster tenuipes. Berk. FI. Tasm. n., 264, t. 183,/. 
9. Sacc. Syll. vn., 218. 
Outer peridium soft, papery, pallid umber, even, laciniai about 7, 
acute, inner peridium on a long pedicel, globose, dark brown, even, 
furnished at the base with radiating furrows, peristome girt by a 
circular depression, conical, plicato-sulcate, capillitium formed of 
fuliginous llocci, 4-6 p broad, columella conical ; spores globose, 
tnuriculate, 4i-5 p diam., dingy brown. 
On the ground. Tasmania. 
1251. Geaster striatus. DCand. FI. Fr. n., 267. Fr. Syst. 
Myc. hi., 13. Sacc. Syll. vn., 222. , \ 
Outer peridium often multifid beyond the middle,, laciniai. up to 
■8, nearly equal, acuminate, between coriaceous and membranaceous, 
