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flattened, or at length snbrevolute, even and brown within, inner 
peridinm globose, snbpedicellate, nearly sessile, umber, at first 
punctnlate or oven ; peristome conical, elevated, and prominent, 
sulcate- striate ; capillitium pallid brown, rather lax ; spores 
globose, warted, 3|-5 p diarn., brown. 
On the ground. Victoria. W. Australia. Queensland. 
1252. Geaster stria, tulus. Kalch. Grev, ix., 3. Sacc. Syll. 
vn., 224. 
Small, outer peridinm with few lobes, subcoriaceous, lacinise to 
6, slightly revolute, externally furfuraceous, internally smooth, 
umber or tawny ferruginous; inner peridinm rather conically 
globose, subsessile, even, becoming pale, papery ; peristome conical, 
prominent, sulcate ; capillitium cinereous, tawny ; spores globose, 
5 p diatn., brownish. 
On the ground. S. Australia. Queensland. 
1253. Geaster Drummondi. Berk. Dec. 58, t. 1, /. 4. Sacc. 
Syll. vii., 225. 
Outer peridinm simple, rigid, flattened, many-lobed, brown 
within (1 in. diam.), laciniie mostly 8, nearly equal, acute ; inner 
peridinm globose, delicately rough, sessile, pallid; disc plane; 
peristome conical, plicate, capillitium brown ; spores of the same 
colour. 
On the ground. W. Australia. Victoria. 
1254. Geaster Readeri. CJce. Mass. Grev. xvi., 73. Sacc. 
Syll. vn., 1592. 
Outer peridinm thin, cut into 7-9 lobes ; laciniie acutely 
triangular, unequal, umber within ; inner peridium somewhat 
stipitate, globose, thin, ochraceous umber, peristome fimbriate 
(not circumscribed), scarcely prominent; spores and capillitium 
dark umber; flocci simple, pallid, attenuated at the apex, thicker 
than the spores ; spores globose, even, tawny, 3 p diam. 
On the ground. Victoria. N.S. Wales. (Fig. 116.) 
1255. Geaster subiculosus. Cke. 4" Mass. Grev. 1887, p. 97. 
Sacc. Syll. vii., 228. 
Gregarious, broadly obovate, springing from an effused white 
subiculum ; outer peridium mealy, wood-colour, many lobed, 
laciniie mostly acute, rather rigid, at length reflexed ; inner 
peridium darker, sessile, globose, even ; peristome slightly umbo- 
nate, fimbriate, capillitium and spores dark-umber ; flocci flexuous, 
simple, variable, attenuated ; spores globose, even, 4 p diam. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. 
1256. Geaster lignicola. Berk. Linn. Journ. xvni., 386. 
Sacc. Syll. vn., 229. 
Outer peridium tomentose, granulate, pallid, irregularly rup- 
tured ; inner peridium brown ; peristome fimbriate, capillitium 
tawny. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
