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1257. Geaster minimus. Schicein. Syn. Car. No. 327. 
Sacc. Syll. vn., 232. Fr. Syst. Myc. hi., 16. 
Outer peridium for the most part 7-9 lobed ; 1 acini® elegantly 
revolute from tlio base, where touching the ground becoming 
tawny, white beneath ; inner peridium shortly but distinctly 
pedicellate, of the size of a pea, piano-ovate at the base, white, 
smooth, peristome flattened-conical, cilia connected, at length 
revolute, and distinct at the apex ; capillitium tawny-brown, 
formed of yellowish flocci, 2-3 p broad, coluinell® short ; spores 
globose, echinulate, 3|-4^ p, dingy. 
On moist clay soil. N. 8. Wales. Victoria. Queensland. W. 
Australia. S. Australia. 
1258. Geaster fhnbriatus. Fries Sys. Myc. ill., 16. 
=Geaster Nov® Iiollandicus. Mull. Sacc. Syll. vn., 238. 
Outer peridium simple, 5-15 lobed, flattened, flaccid, upper 
stratum deciduous, externally tawny brown ; inner peridium sub- 
globose, sessile, soft and flaccid, even, without a paler circle, 
whitish-yellow, or umber, peristome indeterminate, hairy, fimbriate , 
Capillitium brown, formed of yellowish flocci, 3|-4^ /x broad; 
spores globose, even, or faintly verruculose, 3-8^ p, sooty brown. 
On grassy spots. S. Australia. Victoria. Queensland. 
Tasmania. 
1259. Geaster australis. Berk, in FI. Tam. n., 275, t. 
183, /. 10. 
Outer peridium coriaceous, rigid, cut to'the middle in 8-10 
lobes; lacini® ovate, revoluto, violet within, with the internal 
stratum reticulately veined ; inner peridium subglobose, sessile, 
pallid umber ; peristome piano-conical, at length torn and dentate ; 
capillitium broad, brownish; spores globose, olive-brown, even, 
3 p diam. 
On the ground. King George’s Sound. Tasmania. 
1260. Geaster vittatus. Kalch. Gast. Novi. 10, t. 5, f. 2. 
Grev. ix., p. 3. Sacc. Syll. VII., 242. 
Outer peridium between membranaceous and coriaceous, forni- 
cate, cut into about 8 regular lacini®, which are ovate, much 
acuminate, outer surface nearly' smooth, tan colour, longitudinally 7 
cracked as if with white channels, inner stratum fleshy, thin, 
continuous, not rimose, cinereous brown ; inner peridium globose, 
sessile, peristome broadly conical, fimbriately ciliate, tawny ; 
spores globose, finely echinulate, 3-3^ p, olive grey. 
On the ground. 
1261. Geaster saccatus. Fries Sys. Myc. hi., 16. Sacc. 
Syll. vii., 245. 
Outer peridium cut into 6-9 lobes, thin, soft, flaccid ; lacini® 
membranaceous, equal, spreading, narrowed from the base, when 
dry longitudinally revolute, and twisted at the apex, entire at the 
base, enclosing the inner peridium in a cup ; inner peridium 
