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Hiftory of the Briti/h Stellated Lycoperdons. 55 
Diagn. The volva is irregularly fplit into an uncertain num- 
ber of rays; the head nearly globular, and fupported on a pe- 
duncle; the mouth farrounded with ciliæ, converging into a cone; . 
and the whole plant of a dirty white generally, but the head fome- 
times tinged flightly with grey. 
As Linnæus has quoted Ray, there can be no doubt but his 
ftellatum is the fame as Hudfon's; but fome of the fyn. quoted in 
Sp. pl. and his other works are doubtful, the head in them being 
defcribed feffile. 
Fungus pulverulentus crepitus lupi diétus, coronatus et inferne 
ftellatus. R. Syn. 27. 1. 1. f. 1.— This is the beft reprefentation of 
this plant I have hitherto feen. 
Lycoperdon fornicatum. Bryant's Hifi. Acc. of two Lycoperdons, 
jf: 12. 13. 14. 16. 17. are undoubtedly to be referred here from his 
own authority. 
Lycoperdon fornicatum.  Relhas Fi. Cantal. 981. rejecting the 
fyn. of Hudfon, Scheffer, and Batarra. 
Schmiedel Ic. pl. 46. certainly belongs to ftellatum. P4 43. exactly 
refembles Schaef: fig. t. 182, and is therefore doubtful. 
© Pollich. palat. 1197. exa@tly copies Linnæus. The above are 
all the authors, which have fallen under my obfervation, that I 
can fafely quote to this fpecies. 
Schaffer t. 182. Thefe figures extremely refemble our plant re- 
cently opened, and before the peduncle becomes vifible, but the head 
is defcribed as feffile; and yet the author refers to Raï fyn. and the 
fig. of Dillenius, which makes it probable that he had not well 
confidered, and had not very clear ideas of thefe plants. It may 
poffibly be fome fpecies which has not yet fallen under my ob- 
—. fervation. 
Hall. Helv. 2174. Lye. cortice exteriori revoluto ítellato. No 
notice is taken by this author, whether the head be pedunculated 
or 
