CALVATIA CANDIDA (Plate 35, fig. 2, 3, and 4).—A very 
small plant, rarely over an inch in diameter, with a tap root. Peridium 
very smooth and shiny, thin and brittle, breaking away in pieces. 
Sterile base small, compact. Gleba olive. Capillitium of uniform, 
intertwined, branched threads, often septate and very light colored un¬ 
der the microscope. Spores globose, smooth,* 4-5 mic. slightly thicker 
than the threads. 
This is a very rare plant in Europe, only a few collections being 
known. It was fairly well figured by Rostkovius but was really made 
known very recently by Dr. Hollos to whom all the credit should be 
given. It seems to be more abundant in Australia and three collections 
from that country have reached us. It is unknown from the American 
continent. 
SYNONYMS.—Langermania Candida (Sturm Flo 3-257) Lycoperdon can- 
didum (Sacc. 7-4^3.) 
Specimens in our Collection. 
Australia , Norwood , J. G. O. Tepper. Warracknabeal, F. M. Reader. 
Adelaide , Walter Gill. 
CALVATIA OLIVACEA (Plate 35, fig. 5). —Peridium globose, 
5 cm. in diameter. Peridium “thick, at first soft and pliant like 
leather”, smooth. Gleba olive. Sterile base none. Capillitium long, 
colored, slightly thicker than the spores. Spores globose, smooth, 5 mic. 
The only specimen known is the type (Bovista olivacea Grev. 
16-77) at Kew from Reader, Australia. It is similar to the preceding 
species but is larger, peridium is thicker, and capillitium more deeply 
colored. It is well shown in Handbook fig. 118 excepting I find no 
pedicellate spores. 
CARVATIA SINCRAIRII—Rycoperdon Sinclairii (Jour. R. Soc. 87-716), is 
founded on a sterile base of Calvatia collected in New Zealand by Sinclair. It has 
a thick reddish, smooth (now) peridium, pyriform, apiculate, smooth spores, and 
thick, deeply colored capillitium threads. Its affinities are close to Calvatia caelata. 
THE GENUS GALLACEA. 
Peridium single. Gleba of permanent cells forming a thin layer 
adhering to the peridium, the plant being hollow at the center. Capil¬ 
litium none Spores fusiform. 
This genus is based on “Mesophellia Scleroderma’ ’ (Grev. 14-11). 
The plant cannot be classed in the genus Mesophellia as its nature and 
the nature of the gleba is entirely different. 
*The spores are smooth under ordinary magnification. Under a very high power they are 
said to be minutely warty. 
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