British Gasiromycetes. 6 1 
Kew ! Hereford ! Colleyweston ! Derby ! Scarborough ! 
Carlisle ! Coed Coch ! Aboyne ! Edinburgh !— Europe ; N. 
America; S. Africa; Australia; N. Zealand; Tasmania; 
Ceylon. 
Plants at first connected by a web, at length smooth, sub- 
globose, yellowish ; outer peridium consisting of two substances, 
lined by the inner peridium, which is quite distinct and 
separated by some moisture, white, pellucid, and shining, 
at length both split together in a stellate manner, and the 
inner becomes suddenly inverted, while in general it still 
remains attached by the apices of the stellate margin, and 
the sporangium is shot forth to a considerable distance. 
Sporidia ^-oVo long, elliptic, or curved and irregular. The 
rays of the outer peridium are orange within (M. J. B.). 
Peridia about 2 mm. across. 
Thelebolus, Tode. 
Peridium homogeneous, sessile on a broad base, subrotund, 
then urceolate-ventricose, peridiolum solitary, protruding from 
the apex of the peridium. 
Thelebolus , Tode, Meckl. i, p. 41 ; Sacc., Syll. vii, p. 44. 
Allied to Sphaerobolus, from which it differs in the peridium 
consisting of a single layer. 
Thelebolus terrestris, A. and S. (Fig. 57). Peridium at 
first hemispherical, urceolato-ventricose, saffron yellow, seated 
on a dense tomentose subiculum, peridiolum spherical, solitary ; 
spores elliptic-oblong, colourless, 10-12x5-6 \x. 
Thelebolus terrestris, Alb. and Schw., Cons. Fung, 
p. 71, t. ii, f. 4; Cke., Hdbk. n. 1203, f. 146 ; Corda, Anl. t. D, 
f. 44, nos. 9-1 1 ; Sacc., Syll. vii, p. 44. 
Exs. — Klotzsch, Herb. Myc. (Rab.) 718 ; Fuckel, Fung. 
Rhen. 643. 
On the ground, on rotten wood, or running over leaves, etc. 
Richmond, Yorks. ! — Europe. 
Forming dense felty patches of a yellowish colour, 1-2 in. 
broad. Peridia crowded, emerging from the subiculum, from 
1-2 mm. diameter. 
