Gleba olive, Catastoma hypogaeum, 
“ umber, “ anomalum, 
“ reddish, “ Muelleri, 
“ purplish, “ hyalothrix, 
CATASTOMA HYPOGAEUM (Plate 32, fig. 1, 2 and 3).— 
Exoperidium rather thin, breaking irregularly (in these specimens 
mostly attached). Endoperidium thin, yellowish. Gleba bright olive. 
Spores small, 6 mic, rather strongly rough. Capillitium colored, simple 
curled threads. 
Type Specimen (Bovista hypogaea, Grev. 20-35) at Kew from 
Mrs. Martin, Gippsland. 
Specimens in our Collection. 
Christ Church, New Zealand, Robert M. Raing. The gleba are not so bright 
olive as the types at Kew but the plant is in every other respect the same. 
CATASTOMA ANOMALUM (Plate 32, fig. 4, 5and 6).—Ex¬ 
operidium very thin, breaking irregularly. Endoperidium rich brown, 
with a strong protruding mouth (like Tylostoma mammosum). Gleba 
dark umber. Spores globose, very slightly rough, 6-7 mic. not 
pedicellate. Capillitium light colored, curled, simple. 
This unique little species is distinguished by the protruding 
mouth such as no other known species has. Type at Kew (Bovista 
anomala Grev. 18-6) from Mrs. Martin, Victoria, specimens also 
‘‘Gippsland’’ and “Delatite River, Rev. R. Thom” at Kew. The same 
species is found in Berkeley’s Herbarium, from St. Domingo and I have 
seen what I take for the same species at Berlin from Africa. The speci¬ 
fic name anomala was quite appropriate to it when described as a 
“Bovista” for it is an anomalous Bovista, but as a Catastoma, the name 
would be better if it were “typicum”. 
Specimens in our Collection. 
Rockwood Australia, R. T. Baker. 
CATASTOMA MUELLERI (Plate 32, fig. 7 and 8).—Ex- 
. operidium thin, reddish, sub-persistent. Endoperidium thin, reddish. 
Gleba reddish umber. Spores large 10 mic. very rough, without pedi¬ 
cels. Capillitium light colored. 
This species has the largest, roughest spores of any known. It 
is close to Catastoma Zeyheri of Africa but has a different exoperidium. 
Type at Kew (Bovista Muelleri Linn. Jour, 13-171), from 
Herbert’s Creek, Queensland, E. M. Bowman. 
CATASTOMA HYALOTHRIX (Plate32, fig. 9, 10 and 11).— 
Exoperidium thick, in the nature of a sand case, usually partly ad¬ 
herent but when peeling off leaving a scar on the endoperidium. En¬ 
doperidium dark purplish. Gleba purplish. Spores about 10 mic. 
rough, with a pedicel about as long. Capillitium simple, curled, light 
colored, (not “hyaline”). 
Type at Kew (Bovista hyalothrix Grev. 16-73) from C. French, 
Lake Allacutya. The plant is very close to Catastoma castaneum, from 
Africa, (type in Museum at Paris) as to color, and peridium charact¬ 
ers, but spores are larger, (5-7 mic. in African plant). I think how¬ 
ever they are forms of one species. 
Note.— Uycoperdon bovistoides (Bull Soc. Myc. 89-118) seems from the illustration to be a 
Catastoma but the “ sterile base” removes it from this genus. We have seen no specimen. 
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