Mycological System (1832) - Page 23

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GEASTER

With many ciliated fringed with fine hairs openings. Myriostoma. Desv.

1. G. coliformis, exterior peridium multifid split into many parts and spreading, interior peridium multistipitate having many stalks!, cribrose sieve-like with many ciliated openings.

Fungus perforated like a colander, with a stellate volva. Doody in Ray's History 3, p. 20; Dillenius in Ray's Synopsis 3, p. 27, excluding the synonym L. coliforme; Dickson's Crypt. Brit. 1, p. 24, tab. 3, f. 4; Withering's Arrangement; Woodward, l.c., p. 59!; Sowerby, Fung. tab. 313. Geaster. Pers. Syn. p. 131.

Very singular, as if composed of many pedicels small stalks and ostioles, yet not loculose divided into small cavities inside. The interior peridium in larger specimens is remarkably depressed, in smaller ones spherical (dark brown in Dickson, whitish in Woodward), covered with a thin pellicle. Openings are initially papilla-shaped; then slightly elevated, ciliated with delicate cilia, as many as there are approximated short pedicels (compressed, woody in Dickson). Exterior peridium closed, initially deeply buried, subglobose, dirt-white, rugose wrinkled and squamous scaly; the middle layer has the substance of coagulated milk, fetid. In Norfolk and Suffolk, England. Young in mid-August, mature at the end of November. (see figure).

** ** With a pectinate-striate comb-like striped (plicate-sulcate folded-grooved), elongated, conical mouth. Geastr. ore coronato crowned-mouth earthstar. Mich. — Plecostoma. Desvaux.

2. G. fornicatus arched earthstar, exterior peridium dehiscing splitting open through the cortex, subquadrifid four-parted and arched, interior peridium pedicelled, with a conical, striate mouth.

Anthropomorphus. Herb. Fung. Seger, Eph. Nat. Cur. 1, 2, obs. 55 (absurdly); F. monstrose etc. Reyger, l.c. 4, obs. 90. Geaster with rays of the volva and operculum elevated. Watson, Phil. Transact. XLIII, p. 234, tab. 2, f. 11, 12. F.; referring to a vaulted turret. Blackst. Spec. Bot. p. 24, tab. 2; Buxt. Cent. 5, tab. 28, f. 1, 2. Geasteroides. Batt. Fung. p. 74, tab. 39, f. 1–4. Lyc. lycoperdon/puffball fornicatum. Huds. Angl. 2, p. 644; Woodw. l.c., p. 61; Bryant, f. 15; Sowerb. tab. 198. L. coronatum. Schaef. tab. 183. L. fenestrat. Batsch, f. 168. L. reflecting the volva, with a pectinate mouth. Schmid. ic. tab. 37 (major and minor). Geastr. quadrifidum. Dec. fr. 2, p. 267; Nees Syst. f. 128.

beta. multifidus. Schmid, l.c., f. 11–14 (G. multif. in Pers. disp. p. 6; G. pectinatum, Syn. p. 133?)