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with a branched fibrous root ; inside white, yielding when cut 
a white milky fluid, substance becoming red when exposed to 
the air ; cells minute, spores globose echinulate, pale brown, 
1 1-14 \i diam. 
Octaviania Stephensii , Tub, Fung. Hypog., p. 78, PL xxi, 
f. vi. (the spores are correctly described by Tulasne as globose, 
but in the figure are represented as broadly elliptical, and the 
spines are too large). Berk, Outl. 292 ; Cke., Hdbk. n. 1046 ; 
Sacc. Syll. vii, p. 1 59. 
Hydnangium Stephensii , Berk., Ann. Nat. Hist, xiii, p. 
353. In Ann. Nat. Hist, xviii, p. 76, Berkeley and Broome, 
speaking of the genus Octaviana , say, ‘ It is probable that 
Hydnangium Stephensii really belongs to this genus, and that 
H. carotaecolor is a true Hydnangium. The structure of the 
trama is very different, in the former resembling that of an 
Agaric, in the latter that of a Russula .’ 
(Type in Herb. Berk. Kew, n. 4435.) 
Clifton! — Exs. — Rab., Fung. Eur. 1319. 
About | of an inch in diameter, oblong, attached by a 
branched fibrous root, smooth, not cracked, dark rufous, 
curiously plicate at the base and cribrous; within white, yield- 
ing when cut a white milky fluid ; substance when cut and 
exposed to the air soon acquiring a red tinge, which is not 
however permanent, and in young specimens vanishes almost 
entirely in drying, in which state the hymenium is cream- 
coloured ; cells minute ; spores at first irregularly globose, 
with a broad rugulose border, somewhat after the fashion of 
the young spores of Scleroderma , at length echinulate. 
This is a very curious species, remarkable for its milky 
juice, smooth dark peridium, and plicate base. I have not 
seen it with the sporophores perfect. It cannot be confounded 
with any other hypogaeous fungus. The smell in my speci- 
mens was slight, resembling that of Agaricus theiogalus . (M. 
J-B..1.C.) 
Octaviania compacta, Tul. (Fig. 12). Small; gregarious ; 
peridium globose or irregular, white, minutely cottony ; 
