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580 223. Crater. 9. GASTEROMYCE^. PlcelLaph.
p'Ucher-mould.
Eggshape 3. Crateriu7n ovatum.
Sporangium eggshape,
,
truncated, straight, brownish ;
pedicells yellow ; sporidia brown.
Cyathi'.s minutus, Sowerby Fungi, 239, upper figure.
On rotten wood.
XXIII. 224. PYXIDIUM. Gohlet-moidd.
Spora7igium ovate, operculated, sessile; operculum large
convex ; Jiocci very few or none.
Pyxidium sessile. Squatted goblei-mould.
Sporangia eggshape, clustered, yellowish-brown ; opercida
brown.
Sphserocarpus sessilis, Bull. Champ. 417 ; Sowerby Fungi, 258.
Trichia gymnosperma, Persoon Obs. Myc, 63.
Licea circumcissa, Persoon Syn. 196.
On the trembling poplar, under the bark; autumn.
Sporangia resembles the eggs of insects.
H. OnygenadEjE. Sporangia pedicelled; peridium crust-
like, formed of interwoven fibres; Jiocci 0; sporidia closely
conglobated.
XXIV. 225. ONYGENA. Persoon. Cap-mould.
Sporangia globular, pedicelled; peridium crustlike, brittle,
fibrous; pedicells B.hi'ous ; Jiocci 0; sporidia conglobated.
Onygena equina. Horse-hoof cap-mould.
Sporangia greyish-brown, hemispherical.
Coralloides fiin2;iforme ex iingula equina, viride rufescens, Dilkn Muse.
73.
Lycoperdon equinum, TVilldenow Berl. 412; Sowerby Fungi, 292.
Onygena equina, Persoon Syn. 203,
On the hoofs and horns of animals, left on the ground.
I. SPH^ROBOLiDEiE. Peridia double ; the outer leather-
like, lobed starwise; inner fibrous, membranaceous, ejectile;
sporidia naked, closely conglomerated.
XXV. 226. SPH^ROBOLUS. Persoon. Spring-lag.
Sporangium globular, sessile ; peridia double, outer lea-
therlike, 5 or 6-cut; inner membranaceous, projected elastically;
sporidia naked, closely conglomerated.