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324. Additional Note, by the fame. 9 
where this fpecies is excellently figured; MN reprefenting the 
fmall and more common, and L the larger, and (with us) fcarcer 
variety. The few and equal rays, and the depreffed feffile capitu- 
um, convinced me inftantly, on infpeétion, that the Lycoperdon. 
there figured could be no other than the recolligens; but had E 
doubted, the obfervation, tom. 1, p. 161, where the author fpeaks. : 
- of the hygrometric properties of his plant (to which the £L. /ed/atum 
has no pretenfions), muft have carried abfolute conviction with it. 
PL 238, of the fame author, I am now certain, reprefents the fame 
fpecies, though the figures are not fo good. Thefe plants had not, 
at the time of publifhing that plate, fallen much under Mr. Bul- 
liard's obfervation, or he would not have attributed the returning of 
the rays over the capitulum as exprefied fig. H. to decay through 
. age, Which his fubfequent obfervations informed him was owing 
to the hygrometric quality of the plant. This feems to be the 
only ftellated Lycoperdon at prefent known in France, and therefore 
it is not to be wondered at that he has confounded it with /fe/latum, 
XXXIIL Ad. 
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