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1320. Mycenastrum phaeotrichum. Berk. Ilook. Journ. n., 
418.=Scleroderma. Sacc. Syll. vn., 461. 
Peridium subglobose. Mass of spores and capillitium dark 
purple brown, threads about 12/4 thick, furcate, spinulose, fuli- 
ginous ; spores globose, acutely warted, 10 /4 diam., dark brown, 
opaque. 
Onground. W. Australia. 
1321. Mycenastrum olivaceum. Cke. $■ Mass. Grev. xvi., 
88.=Scleroderma olivacea. Sacc. Syll. vii., 1629. 
Peridium subglobose (2-3 in. diam.), sessile, rigid, smooth, even, 
lead-colour above, whitish below, splitting lialf-way down into 
about five acute lacinias ; capillitium and mass of spores olive; 
threads, 15-20 y thick, with several irregular large branches, fur- 
nished throughout with stout spines ; spores spherical, minutely 
warted, 15 y diam. 
On the ground. Queensland. N.S.Wales. 
Genus 28. CASTOUEUM. Cke. 8f Mass. Grev. 1887. 
Peridium double, exterior fibrous, produced below into a fibrous 
rooting stem, interior subcartilaginous ; capillitium arachnoid (not 
radiating), flocci simple, thin, interwoven, adnate to the walls of 
the peridium; spores fusiform, vorrucose, coloured. 
1322. Castoreum radicatum. Cke. <j- Mass. Grev. xv., 100. 
Sacc. Syll. vu., 476. 
Fasciculate (l£ to H in. diam.), subglobose, coalescing below 
in a fibrous stem ; outer peridium tawny, persistent, coriaceous ; 
inner peridium subgelatinous, at length horny ; capillitium very 
thin, interwoven, hyaline ; spores fusiform, subochraceous, un- 
equally verrucose, 12 x5-6 y. 
On the ground. Tasmania. (Fig. 122.) 
Genus 29. XYLOPODIUM. Mont. FI. Alg. 390. 
Peridium simple, coriaceous, formed of two strata, vertex clad 
at maturity with thick, broad warts, dehiscing in lobes, stipitate ; 
stem thick and large, fibrous, very hard, woody, flocci adnate to 
the peridium, at first reticulate, with clavate apices ; spores nearly 
even, rusty brown, pedicellate. 
1323. Xylopodium australe. Berk. Linn. Journ. xvi., 171. 
Sacc. Syll. vii., 479. 
Peridium volvate when young (5 c.m.) broad. Stem rooting, 
broken into scales (8 c.m. long) ; spores large, echinulate, yellow 
(5 y diam.). 
On the ground. Victoria. N.S.Wales. S. Australia. 
1324. Xylopodium ochroleucum. Cke. Mass. Grev. xv., 
95. Sacc. Syll. vu., 478. 
Stipitate ; peridium globose (2 in. diam.), verrucose, warts large, 
pyramidal, persistent ; stem erect, firm, thick, indurated, solid, 
equal (3 in. long, | in. thick), imbricately squamose; capillitium 
whitish ochre, flocci nearly simple, thin ; spores globose, 8 y 
