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or irregular. Gleba white, then ochraceous, or olive, and finally purplish brown,
soft.
Spores brown, subglobose, or oval, 6—7 X 5—6 /d, with long hyaline pedicels.
Capillitium brown, thick-walled, branched, branches pointed at the ends, 12—16 /l
in diam.
Calvatia Fries.
145. *C. arctica Ferdinandsen et Winge. C. Ferdinandsen, Fungi terrestres
from North-East Greenland. Meddelelser om Gronland XLIII, 1910, p. 144. Pl. IX,
fig. 1—6.
Egilstaðir, 18.VII.1935. Hallormstaður, 22.VII.1395. In birch copses. Lón,
26.VII.1935. On heath.
Peridium almost like that of Scleroderma aurantium, c. 4 cm high and 3 cm
wide, subglobose, contracted below into a more or less stemlike base ; exoperidium
above covered with large, up to 4 mm broad, pyramidal warts, arranged in parallel
horizontal lines, below minutely granulate, at first white, then ochraceous; endo-
peridium thick, fragile, thinner in the upper half and finally falling away in pieces.
Gleba white, then olivaceous, finally brown.
Spores globose, 4—5 /U broad, yellow, minutely verrucose, often very shortly
pedicellate. Capillitium yellowish, c. 5—6 JU broad.
Lycoperdon Toumefort.
146. *L. echinulatum B. et Br. Ladislaus Hollós, Gastcromycetes Hungariæ,
tab. XX, figs. 1—3.
Laugarvatn, 5.VIII.1935. In a birch copse.
Peridium 2—4 cm wide, dark reddish brown, below yellowish brown, obovate or
pear-shaped; exoperidium above densely covered with long, brown spines, below
granulate; endoperidium somewhat brittle and deciduous. Mouth small, round or
toothed, apical. Gleba white, then dark ochraceous, somewhat olivaceous.
Spores globose, pale yellow, 3.5—4 /t, smooth.
Nidulariaceae.
Crucibulum Tulasne.
147. C. vulgare Tulasne, Sacc., Syll. fung. VII, p. 43.
Stykkishólmur, 9.VII.1935. On dead wood.
LITERATURE
Lange, Jakob E., Flora Agaricina Danica, Vol. I—V, 1935—1940. Copenhagen.
— Studies in the Agarics of Denmark, Part I—XII. Dansk bot. Arkiv, Koben-
havn 1914—1938.
Larsen, Poul, Fungi of Iceland. Botany of Iceland, Vol. II, Part III. Copenhagen
& London 1931.
In the last-mentioned work a long list of literature is to be found, p. 591—596.,