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Mass., on pine wood. Spores lo x 4-5 ix.
2094. N. Berkeley! Mass. (after the Rev. M. J. Berkeley) a.
Pe. subglobose, thick, hirto-tomentose, bright cinnamon. Peri.
orbicular, biconvex, smooth, shining, bright brown.
Solitary or 2-3 together. Twigs, woods. in.
2095. N. eonfluens Fr. (from the confluent habit) abc.
Pe. subglobose, thin, villous, whitish or buff-white. Peri, orbicular,
compressed, pale yellowish-umber to chestnut.
Putrid leaves, twigs, chips, wood, rarely on the ground. Oct.
CXXII. SPHiEROBOLUS Tode.
(In reference to the ejection of the peridiolum from the peridium;
Gr. sphaira, a ball, baUo, to throw.)
Peridium globose, subglobose or urceolate, sessile; peridiolum
solitary, ejected from the peridium. (Fig. 138.) Species 2097, 2098
Fig. 138.— A, Spharoholus ste lla tu s Tode. X 3. B, group o f d itto ; c , sections o f young
and mature examples. X 12. p, basidium and spores. X 660. x, peridium o f two coats ;
2, peridiola : 3, myoelium.
Peridium globose, of two layers, the inner at length extruded
elastically and ejecting a single peridiolum. 2096, 2097
Peridium homogeneous, sessile on a broad base, subrotund then
urceolato-ventricose ; peridiolum extruded from the apex ot
the peridium. ^098
2096. S. stellatus Tode (from the stellate mouth of the peridium)
Pe mhmtely tomentose, at first immersed in a thick web of white
Myc. opening above in a 5- to 7-stellate manner, elastically
extruding the inner layer and ejecting a globular yellowish or
orange peri. : pale yellow or pale yellowish-buff, darker or
orange within. The peri, which encloses basidia and spores is
ejected for 8 or more inches with a slight clicking sound.
Usually crowded in troops. Rotten wood, sawdust, earth of old stumps,
twigs, leaves, rotten grass. Often in stoves and greenhouses. Jan.-Dee.
Diam. in.
2097. S. dentatus W. G. Sm. (from the toothed peridium ; dentatus,
toothed) a. , • u
Pe. finely pilose with erect hairs, springing from scanty brownish
Myc opening above in a 4- to 7-stellate manner, the rays clad
with long white hairs, which at first converge over the opening,
outside pale livid-buff to vinous-brownish, pale brown or brown,
inside white, ivory, white-greyish or faint olive-ivory, ejecting a
reddish-brown peri.
Scattered. Dead elder. Failand, Bristol, Aug. 1888, R. Baker. Diam. in-
Fib im .—S ik tr ro io lu s terrestris N . 0 . 5 x0. „
!A. seen from ab o v e ; B, s e l l fmm side ; c. section. X 12. d , basidmm and spores. X 660.
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