IVRI B 407.pdf

THE FUNGI OF INDIA.
[Lycoperdon] H nigrum" (288, No. 31:3 ; not in Sacc.). India (Kirtikar). We
are lillable to interpret the name applied by Lloyd. Perhaps he meant L.
nigrescens Pers.
-piriforme Sch'l,eff. (Sace. VII:1l7; 288, No. 17:2, No. 35:2; 57, after No. 349;
374:72). On dead wood, Siklcim, 8,000 ft. (Hooker f.); India (Butler);
India, 8,000 ft. (Cave).
- pusillum Batsch (Sacc. VII:llO; 57, after No. 459; 196:128; 288, No. 17:2).
On the grolilld, Eastern Nepal (Hooker f.) ; in elephant grass jlillgles, Kayosoo,
Lower Burma (Kurz) ; on the grolilld, Dehra Dun (Butler: specimens larger
than those fOlilld in Europe).
-saccatum Vahl (Sacc. VII:128; 263:336). On the ground, Arnigadh, Mussoorie
(GoHan).
--sericellum Berk. (57, No. 349; Sacco VII:1l6). On the ground, Darjeeling,
7,000 ft. (Hooker f.).
--xanthospermum Berk. (57, No. 459; Sacco VII:111). On the ground, Moflong,
Khasi Hills (Hooker f.).
Melanogaster durissimus Cke (143:94; Sacco VII:1(7). A few inches below
the surface of the grolilld, near Chakrata, Himalaya (Baden-Powell). Edible.
Mitremyces junghuhnii Schlect. & Muell. (Sacc. VII:69; 57, after No. 460; 57,
No. 352 as M. viridis Berk.). On the grolilld and on dead timber, Tonglo,
Sinchul, and Chola, Sikkim, 6-9,000 ft. (Hooker f.) ; Butan (Nuttal). Lloyd
(287:241) found no difference between M. viridis and M .. 7unghuhnii.
Nidula emodensis (Berk.) Lloyd (291: 12, fig.; 57, No. 462 as Cyat1lus emodensis
Berk.; Sacco VII:40) .. On dead wood, Lachen, Sikkirt;l, 12-13,000 ft. (Hooker
f.).
Pod axon calyptratus Fr. (Sace. VII:59; 145:13). On the ground, Punjalr (Aitcheson)
; on sandy soil, Chatrapur, Ganjam (Butler).
--carcinomaIis (L.) Fr. (Sacc. VII:58; 61:21). "Probably common in India"
Berkeley.
- emerici Berk. in Herb. (312:75, figs.; Sacco IX:267). On the grolilld, l\[asulipatam
(Capt. Emeric Berkeley).
--goUani P. Henn. (263:338; Sacco XVII:219). On the ground, Botanic Garden,
Saharanpur (Golian).
- pistillaris (L.) Fr. (Sacc. VII:59; 287:170; 288, No. 15:3, No. 17:2; 312:74,
figs., as P. indica). On the grolilld, India (Koenig) ; Nadiad, Bombay (Butler);
Mirpur, Matholo, Sind; Madras; Punjab; Afghanistan (Aitcheson). Lloyd ·
(288, No. 17:2) mentions that the Indian collections he examined agreed
well with the type in the Linnaean Herbarium, which came originally from
India. Described first by Linnaeus as Lyeoperdon pistillaTe. (Sec p. i. )
Polygaster sampadarius (Rumph.) Fr. (237, II;295; Sacco VII:146). In WOOdll,
India (Koenig).