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of a minute epiphyllous Lycoperdon. 311 
edged, recularly fhaped fegments, like thofe of the above-mentioned 
figures ; neither have I, as yet, obferved the appearance of a Volva, 
To this may be added, that, during all its ftate of growth, and at 
maturity, it preferves uniformly a white colour, changing when 
dead into a yellowifh brown. 
As far as my obfervations extend, I judge, that this Fungus is fel- 
dom found on full grown, vigorous, and perfect, or flowering 
plants; but on the leaves of feedling plants, or of the firft year’s 
growth. The plants on which it is found are ufually fmaller than 
the others, the leaves of a paler colour, and the footftalk more 
lengthened, the whole giving the idea of a weakened or morbid 
ftate: but whether thefe Fungilli render the plant always ferik, an 
epithet which Ca/par BAvmiNE and other ancient authors have 
applied to it, or whether they occupy it in confequence of its 
come morbid, diane not dci 
Having made my earl ieft obfervz — Fungus, when in 
its younger ftate of growth, and cup-like form, I hefitated whe- 
ther it fhould be ranked with the Peziza or Lycoperdon genus: but 
in marking its progrefs to its old and decaying ftate, there remained- 
no longer any doubt in which genus it ought to be claffed. I 
judge it may not unaptly be named and defcribed as follows : 
NOMEN. 
Lycoperdon, (Anemones) parafiticum fphæricum feflile difcretum 
album ; ore multifido lacero; polres albo. T 
Descriptio. A 
"Tubercula viridefcentia, difcreta, magnitudine inter fe nec mul- 
tum difcrepantes, intra folii cuticulam primum difcernuntur: mox 
erumpunt fungilli albi, mammiformes, poro in fummitate notati: 
* Mr. Relhan obferved the contrary. 
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