58 Mr. Woopwarn's Effay towards an 
defcribed by various authors; but probably the fame, or fome 
flight variety, has been intended by the greater part of them: 
. ANGL. Star puff-bail—An various places near Bungay in the fpring 
and autumn, and the winter if it be mild. 
8 minor—The only permanent variety I have met with here, 
and which certainly is not diftinét, may be characterifed—capitulo 
juperne plano, ore acuminato, ciliis. longioribus, See Bryant s. Hifl. Acc. 
J- 19. the head only, but admirably well expreffed. - 
This elegant little variety grows on dry banks, ufually amongft 
ivy, and feldom exceeds an inch or an inch and half in the dia- 
meter of its expanded rays. The colour is dark brown; the head 
flat on the top; and the mouth furrounded with long ciliz, form- 
ing a very fharp cone; the peduncle is longer in proportion to the 
fize of the plant than in a. 
Mich. t. 100. f. 2. may poffibly be this plant. It is found in Ditch- . 
ingham, Earíham, and other places near Bungay. : 
Lycoperdon recolligens — Volva multifida patente, /acinits aqui 
libus; capitulo depreffo - fphærico, 
Jeli; ore acuminato. 
Diagn. Rays of the volva equal, 5 to 7, rarely more; when dry, 
reflected over the head; head feffile. 
Lycoperdon volvans recolligens. Schmiedel Icones plant, 27, 28. 
J. 20 to 31. rejeéting the fyn. which are doubtful. The defcri 
tion. is extremely good; but the plant is figured and defcribed with 
rays from 5 to20, equal or unequal, entire and fplit, which cir- 
cumftances do not entirely accord with the Englifh fpecimens; and 
poflibly the author may have confounded two fpecies together. He 
fays ot the head, ‘ * Capitulum. feu globulus volvæ medio firmiter innafci-. 
* tur, Je effilis, abfque. pedunculo a aliquali + which perfectly agrees with 
our plant. 
Lycoperdon ftellatum.—Bulliard, Plantes de la France, 1.238 
2 Lyco- 
