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2 2 5 6 . Gene a v e izu c o sa . Vitt. “ Warted Genea.”
Very irregnlar and polymorphous, gibbons, snlcate, or also
somewhat many-lobed, black, verrucose ostiolate ; ostiola sometimes
very broad, radical filaments abbreviated ; sporidia broadly
elliptic, verrucose.— Tul. Hyp. t. 4, f. 1, 1.12, f. 3 .1.13,/. 5. Vitt.
Tub. t. ii. / . 7. B. & Br. Ann. N.H. xviii. p. 78. G.papillosa, B.
Ann. N.H. xm. p. 356.
In clayey soil. Bowood Park and King’s Cliffe.
Variable in size from a pea to a small nut, globose, very irregular, often
many-lobed, with the lobes rounded, externally black and verrucose, cinereous
or dirty white within; sporangia linear-elongated, very obtuse; sporidia
broadly elliptic, '0256 m.m. broad, '032 m.m. long, verrucose and wliitish.
warts very obtuse and unequal, nucleus oily. (Fig. 353.)
2 2 5 7 . G ene a K lo t s c h ii. B . & B r. '' Klotsoh’s Genea.”
Pcetid, peridium suhplicate, black without and within, verrucose,
affixed below to rather rigid, brown, rooting fibrils; mycelium
effuse, white, arachnoid and woven ; sporidia large, tnber-
culate.—B. & Br. Ann. N.H.xY\\\.p.l8. Berh. Outl.p.318. Corda.
Ic. vi. 1.11,/. 101. Tul. Hyp. 1.13, / 4.
On the soil. Bristol and Devonshire.
The mycelium spreads for some distance on or within the soil, so th at the
plant is easily detected when the leaves are raked off. This vanishes when
the peridia are perfect. One or more individuals are found in each patch of
mycelium. In the yonng peridium the point of attachment is lateral. The
sporidia are large, coarsely granulated, and much exceeding in volume those
of O. verrucosa.—M .J. B . Sporidia '04-'05 m.m. diameter.
2 2 5 8 . Gene a h isp id u la . Berk. “ Hairy Genea.”
Small, brown, externally invested everywhere with rather
rigid, adpressed, brown flocci ; interior cavity very often simple,
with the mouth almost hidden ; radical fibres brown, adhering
to the base ; sporidia large, ellipsoid ; warts thick and crowded.
—G. papillosa, Berh. Ann. N .H. xviii.yi. 76. Berh. Outl.p. 378.
In the ground. Near Chudleigh, Aspley, Beds., and Bristol.
The whole peridium is of a rich brown, and is densely clothed with brown
bristles wherever it extends. The sporidia are very much larger and far
more coarsely granulated than in G. verrucosa, the granules, indeed, being
often bifid ; they often contain two nuclei, but sometimes there is but one.
From the size of a pea to that of a filbert. Sporidia '032 m.m. broad, "OSS-
•042 m.m. long ; odour faint, not peculiar.
T U B E E A C E I .
E LA PH OM Y C E S , NeeS.
Common integument thick,
h a rd ; asci globose, or obovate
: sporidia consisting of
several concentric utricles ;
internal mass at length dusty.
—Tul. Hyp. p. 100. Berk.
Eng. Fl. v. p. 306. Berh.
Outl.p. 378'
{Fig. 354.;
Vitt. “ Smooth-coated
Fig. 354.
2 2 5 9 . E laph om y c e s an th ia c in u s .
Elaphomyces.”
Globose, depressed in the centre, papillate, sometimes hollowed;
mycelium dark brown ; cortex black or^ brown, not
spotted, nearly smooth, rigid, crustaceous; peridium thick,
whitish; sporidia blackish-brown.— Vitt. ’ltd), t. 3 ,/ . 8. Tul.
Hyp. 1.19. B. & Br. Ann. N.H. xviii. p. 81.
In clayey soil. Near Bristol.
The original specimens of Vittadini are minutely granulated under a I p s ,
a character which does not appear in our specimen. The sporidia are alike,
and at once distinguish it from E. variegatus, the only species with which it
can be confounded. The smell is very powerful, in which respect again it
does not agree with Vittadini’s species. I t is, indeed, probable that it will
prove new, but on the authority of a single individual, not iu very good mn-
dilion it wouH be rash to do more than indicate its nearest affinity. The
outer rind in the specimen when gathered was black, the inner of a dull yel-
lowish-white.—
2 2 6 0 . E laph om yc e s v a iie g a tu s . Vitt. “ Eough-ooated
Elaphomyces.”
Mycelium yellow (or yellowish-grey), inconspicuous ; cortex
thick, hard, ochraceous-yellow or golden-yellow, rough, with
thick pyramidal and obtuse, or narrow, pointed, and fragile
warts, or only granulated ; peridium reddish-brown and variegated
; asci 2-4 spored ; sporidia opaque, blackish-brown.— Vitt.
Tub. t. 4 ,/. 4. Sturm, iii. 19-20, t. 9. E . muricatus. Eng. Fl. v.
p. 307. Corda. Ic.Vi. t. 10,/. 97. Berh. exs.no. 306.
In mountain woods, &c.
Differing from E. granulatus in its more muneated surface, less deep black,
and smaller sporidia, but essentially in the substance of the coriaceous
covering, being variegated with brown dots. Sporidia'02-'022 m.m. diameter.
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