Lycoperdaceae 



Peridium 1-1*2 in. in diameter. A very pretty species of regular Lycoperdon. 

 form; its glossy cortex is quite persistent. Morgan. 



Growing on the ground in open woods. Ohio, Morgan; Nebraska, 

 Webber. 



New York, Peck, 46th, 5ist Rep. ; Ohio, Lloyd. 



L. delica'tum Berk. Peridium subglobose, plicate underneath, with 

 a fibrous mycelium. Cortex a thin coat of minute spinules and gran- 

 ules, gray or brownish above, whitish below, finally falling away from 

 the smooth, shining, pale or brownish surface of the inner peridium. 

 Subgleba very small or quite obsolete ; mass of spores and capillitium 

 olivaceous, then pale or brownish-purplish ; the threads rather thinner 

 than the spores, with slender tapering branches. Spores globose, dis- 

 tinctly warted, 5-6/u, in diameter. 



Peridium 12 in. in diameter. Morgan. 



Growing on the ground. Pennsylvania, Gentry; Missouri, Professor 

 Trelease (Peck, Rep. 40); Louisiana, Langlois. 



Cortex a furfuraceous persistent coat. 



L. glabel'lum Pk. smooth, bare. Subglobose or subturbinate, i- 



1.5 in. broad, sometimes narrowed below into 

 a short stem-like base, furfuraceous with very 

 minute nearly uniform persistent warts, which 

 appear to the naked eye like minute granules 

 or papillae, yellow, opening by a small aper- 

 ture ; inner mass purplish-brown, capillitium 

 with a central columella. Spores purplish- 

 brown, globose, rough, 5-6.5^ in diameter. 



Ground in copses and in pine woods. West 

 Albany and North Greenbush. Autumn. 

 Peck, 3ist Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Ohio, Morgan; Wisconsin, Trelease; West 

 Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Fre- 

 quent. Autumn. Mcllvaine. 



One of the prettiest Lycoperdons. Sym- 

 metrical, and otherwise attractive. Sweet, 

 firm, solid. It is not high in flavor, but is delicate. 



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(Plate CLXVI.) 



LYCOPERDON GLABELLUM. 

 (After Morgan.) 



