(Plate CLXXV.) 



Lycoperdaceae 



Peridium 1 s i in. in diameter. Lycoperdon. 



Growing on the ground in meadows and pastures. 

 New York, Peck, 5ist Rep. 

 Good. 



L. colora'tum Pk. colored. Peridium 5-io lines broad, globose 

 or obovate, subsessile, radicating, yellow or red- 

 dish-yellow, brownish when old, slightly rough- 

 ened with minute granular or furfuraceous per- 

 sistent warts; capillitium and spores at first pale, 

 inclining to sulphur- color, then dingy -olive. 

 Spores subglobose, smooth, about 4jw. in diameter. 



Ground in thin woods and bushy places. Sand- 

 lake and Catskill mountains. July and August. 



Peek, 32d Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



New York, Peck, 2 9th Rep. ; New England, 

 Morgan; Ohio, Morgan; Wisconsin, Trelease. 



LYCOPERDON COL- 



ORATUM. 

 (After Morgan. 



(Plate CLXXVI.) 



L. acumina'tum Bosc. pointed. Peridium globose, then ovoid, 



with a mycelium of fine white fibers. 

 Cortex a white soft delicate continu- 

 ous coat, drying up into a thin fur- 

 furaceous persistent layer on the sur- 

 face of the inner peridium. Subgleba 

 obsolete ; mass of spores and capilliti- 

 um pale-olivaceous then dirty-gray; 

 threads simple, hyaline, two to three 

 times as thick as the spores. Spores 

 globose, even, 3/u. in diameter. Plate 



II, fig. 8. Peridium %-% of an inch in height. 



Growing on the mosses of old logs and about the base of living trees. 



New York, Peck; North Carolina, Ciirtis ; South Carolina, Ravenel, 



Atkinson; Ohio, Morgan; Costa Rica, Oersted. 



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LYCOPERDON ACUMINATUM 

 With spores. (From Morgan.) 



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