. Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes ; a descriptive catalogue of the drawings and specimens in the Department of botany, British museum. buff or salmon. Peri, subrotund, biconvex, smooth, shining, brown. Gregarious or solitary. Dead branches, chips, leaves, pine, sometimes on the 2 I 2 484 NIDULARIACEiE Nidularia ground, woods. May-Oct. T5^ in. Spores 7-8 X 8-9 fx. Var. BroomeiMass., on pine wood. Spores iox 4-5 \x. 2094. N. Berkeleyi Mass. (after the Rev. M. J. Berkeley) a. Pe. subglobose, thick, hirto-tomentose, bright cinnamon. Peri. orbicular, biconvex, smooth, shining, bright


. Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes ; a descriptive catalogue of the drawings and specimens in the Department of botany, British museum. buff or salmon. Peri, subrotund, biconvex, smooth, shining, brown. Gregarious or solitary. Dead branches, chips, leaves, pine, sometimes on the 2 I 2 484 NIDULARIACEiE Nidularia ground, woods. May-Oct. T5^ in. Spores 7-8 X 8-9 fx. Var. BroomeiMass., on pine wood. Spores iox 4-5 \x. 2094. N. Berkeleyi Mass. (after the Rev. M. J. Berkeley) a. Pe. subglobose, thick, hirto-tomentose, bright cinnamon. Peri. orbicular, biconvex, smooth, shining, bright or 2-3 together. Twigs, woods. j\ in. 2095. N. eonfluens Fr. (from the confluent habit) a b c. Pe. subglobose, thin, villous, whitish or buff-white. Peri, orbicular, compressed, pale yellowish-umber to leaves, twigs, chips, wood, rarely on the ground. Oct. CXXII. Tode. (In reference to the ejection of the peridiolum from the peridium;Gr. sphaira, a ball, ba//o, to throw.) Peridium globose, subglobose or urceolate, sessile; peridiolumsolitary, ejected from the peridium. (Fig. 138.) Species 2097, 2098. ^55 ^ Fig. 138.—A, Spharobolus stellatus Tode. X 3. E, group of ditto; c, sections of youngand mature examples. X 12. p, basidium and spores. X 660. I, peridium of two coats ;2, peridiola • ?\i mycelium. Sphczrobolus NIDULARIACEjE 485 Peridium globose, of two layers, the inner at length extrudedelastically and ejecting a single peridiolum. 2096, 2097 Peridium homogeneous, sessile on a broad base, subrotund thenurceolato-ventricose; peridiolum extruded from the apex ofthe peridium. 2098 2096. S. stellatus Tode (from the stellate mouth of the peridium) a b c. Pe. minutely 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


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