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part of the combination formed into a double cortex, covered on 

 the outside with coloured cells ; tubes of the capillitium originat- 

 ing in the inner stratum of the cortex, penetrating in numerous 

 places its inner wall, branching within the body of the rethalium, 

 and formed into a loose net in which many arms run out in free, 

 blunt ends. Rtfki. 



91. Lycogala epidendxum. Bux. 



^Bthalium roundish, sociable, large as a pea, shining, surface 

 distinctly warted, rose-colour, but commonly dull-brown with a 

 shade of red ; mass of spores and capillitiimi very variably coloured, 

 violet-red, purple, rosy, dull clay-colour, greenish clay -colour, or 

 almost greyish ; thickenings of the tubes of the capillitium only 

 distinct in the young state, when dry the surface only exhibits 

 irregular wrinkles ; spores very small, smooth, '0033- 0058 mm. 

 diam. Rtfki. Mon., 2d5. 



On stumps. (Fig. 1, 7 to 12.) 



Fungus cocdneus, Hay Syn., ii., 336 (1690). 



Fungus sanguineus, Bocc. Mas., p. 304 (1697). 



Fungus non vescus, La3s. Fl. Prus., 96 (1703). 



Lycoperdon sanguineum, Hupp. Fl. Jen., 31)4 (1718). 



Bovista mimata, Dill. Cat. PI., 197 (1719). 



Lycoperdon epidendron, Bux. Hall, p. 203 (1721); Fl. Dan., 

 t. 720; Light, f. Fl. Scot., No. 1068 ; Holms. Ot.,"t. 31 ; Bolt., 

 t. 119, f. 1; Sow., t. 52; Purt. Midi. FL, p. 701; Rehl. Cant., 

 p. 566 ; With. AIT., iv., p. 437. . 



Lycogala globosum, Mich., t. 95, f. 2 (1729). 



Lycopeidon sanguineum, Buxb., t. 29, f. 2 (1740). 



Lycoperdon sphcericum, Gled. Meth., 150 (1753). 



Mucor Hi. splicer icus, Gled. Meth., 161 (1753). 



Mucor secundus, Schff., t. 193 (1762). 



Lycogala sessile, Retz., Ac. Holms., 254 (1769). 



Mucor lycogala, Scop. Carn., ii., 1645(1772). 



Mucor fragiformiSi Schff. Bar., No. 283 (1774). 



Lycoperdon variolosum, Huds. Fl. Aug., 645 (1778). 



Lycoperdon epipliyllum, Huds. Fl. Aug., 645 (1778). 



Lycoperdon pysiforme^ Jacq. Misc . t. 7 (1788). 



Galeperdon epidendron, Wigg. Fl. Holsat, 1148 (1780). 



Lycoperdon chalybeum, Batsch. El., p. 155 (1781). 



Lycoperdon veirucosiun, Batsch. El., p. 155 (1781). 



Rtticularia rosea, DC. Bullet. Phil., f. 8 A, B, c (1793). 



L)jcog:da miniata, Pers. Obs., ii., 26 (1790) ; Grev. S. C. Fl., 

 t. 38 ; Nees., t. 8, f. 97 ; Gray. Arr., i., 568, 



Lycogala punctata, Pers. Syn., p. 158 (1801). 



Lycogala plumbea, Sebum. Saell., 1408 (1303). 



Lycogala ferruginea, Schum. Saell., 1406 (1803). 



