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Extremely gelatinous, tremelloid, very soft and mobile in the hand, 
as if alive, obconical, cup-shaped, sometimes spreading out for many 
feet, lacunose within, externally most minutely tomentose, of a dull 
umber; shrinking when dry to an extremely thin membrane, so as 
to be scarcely recognizable. 
Unlike the other species, this will scarcely make a specimen for the 
herbarium, as it shrinks to a mere film. It is far more watery and 
gelatinous, though by no means viscid, than any other species of this 
difficult genus. 
* Lycoperdon celatum, Fr. Syst. Mye. vol. iii. p. 32. Hook. fil., 
No. 89, cum ic. 
Has. Onthe ground. Darjeeling, 7,500 feet. July. Rare. 
There is a slight purple tinge at the top of the peridium when fresh, 
which is not, however, permanent in the dried specimens. 
349. L. sericellum, n. s.; peridio obtuso apice dehiscente sericeo- 
corticato ; strato sterili sericeo-spongioso cum capillitio continuo ; sporis 
flavido-ochraceis. Hook. fil., No. 32, cum ic. 
Has. On the ground. Darjeeling, 7,000 feet. May, June. Rare. 
Peridium 2-3 inches across, dark brown, obtuse, at length opening 
above, but not by a distinet orifice ; outer coat silky, the down collected 
into little depressed fasciculi, cracking and separating from the inner . 
yellowish coat. Stem various in length, obconical, sometimes paler - 
than the peridium. Capillitium distinguished from the silky substance 
of the stem merely by a slightly different tinge, but not separated by 
.any distinct membrane. Spores globose, dirty yellow. 
Distinguished from Z. cælatum, to which it is perhaps most nearly 
allied, by the confluence of the capillitium with the substance of the 
stem, which is silky, soft, and not rigidly lacunose, in which respect it 
agrees with Z. polymorphum, Vitt, In form it comes very near to 
L. saccatum, but the spores are by no means fuliginous, and the stem- 
is in that species “ celluloso-spongiosus," "which would seem to indi- 
cate a firmer texture. The Ceylon plant which I have referred to — 
L. saccatum, is probably the same with the Darjeeling species, but — 
unfortunately the specimens are not precisely in the same state of - 
growth, and I have no specimen of L. saccatum to compare. ue 
* Lycoperdon gemmatum, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. iii. p. 36. Hook. fil, 
No. 17, 59, 105. 
Has. Abundant on the ground, paths, clay banks, &c., de. on : 
decayed timber. Darjeeling, Jillapahar, 7-8,000 feet. April, June. 
