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Calostoma cinnabarinum (Desv.) Plate III, Figs. 6-8. 
Exoperidium vermilion inside, becoming dingy red, sepa- 
rating at the base like a calyptra, or breaking into irregular 
lobes at the apex. Endoperidium subglobose, ochraceous, 
ostiolum vermilion, teeth 5 ~ 7 - Spore-sac very pale ochre, 
spores elliptic-oblong, minutely verruculose, pale ochre, 
1 5-18 x 8-10 fx. Stem-like base variously lacunoso-reticulate. 
Desvaux, Journ. de Bot., tom. ii. (1809), p. 94. 
Gyropodium coccineum , Hitchcock, Sillim. Amer. Journ., 
vol. ix. (1825), p. 56, pi. 3. 
Lycoperdon heterogeneum , Bose, in Berk Mag., v. p. 87, t. 6, 
f. jo a, b. 
Lycoperdon c alio stoma , Poir, Encycl. suppl., v. 476. 
Scleroderma callostoma , Pers., in Desv. Journ. de Bot., vol. ii. 
p. 15, pi. 2, f. 2. 
Mitremyces heterogeneus, Nees, Pilze und Schwamme, p. 136, 
t. xii, f. 129 a (1817). 
Mitremyces lutescens , Schweinitz, Syn. Carol, n. 345, t. 2, f. 1; 
Nees, Syst. der Pilze, PI. 1 1 ; Fr. S. M. 3. 64 ; Sacc. Syll. n. 202. 
Mitremyces cinnabarinum , Schvv. Syn. Fung. Amer. Bor. in 
Amer. Phil. Soc., p. 255 (1831); Exs. Ellis, N. Amer. Fung, 
n. 727 ; Sacc. Syll. 7. n. 208 ; the Kew copy contains a 
beautiful specimen in the young state, with the bright red 
exoperidium continuous, and the stem-like base rudimentary. 
(Specimen from Schweinitz, in Hb. Bk., Kew 1 .) On the 
ground. United States, New Granada. Endoperidium 1-2 
cm. in diameter; stem 2-5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick. 
Calostoma Ravenelii (Berk.), Mass. Plate III, Figs. 26, 27. 
Exoperidium becoming broken up into irregular warts, 
which often remain attached to the subglobose, ochraceous, 
endoperidium ; mouth vermilion, teeth 4-5 ; spore-sac pallid, 
spores elliptic-oblong, smooth, colourless, 15-17 X 8-9 \x. Stem- 
like base, short. 
Mitremyces Ravenelii , Berk, in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xxii. 
1 The bracketted reference indicates the value and locality of the specimen 
from which measurements, drawings, & c. have been taken. 
