n8 LYCOPERDACEAE 



y. Exoperidium cup-shaped, mouth minute, ciliate 



Diplocystis 7: 92 

 (2) Spores home on the outside of endoperidium ; stellate 



Trichaster 7: 93 



b. Endoperidia several 



(1) Mycelium crust-like; capillitium not hollow 



Broomeia 7: 93 



(2) Mycelium not crust-like : capillitium hollow 



Coelomyces 7: 94 



III. Peridium without a columella; exoperidium lacking or consisting of a papery 



or spiny cortex ; gleba floccose Subfamily Lycoperdae 



1. Peridium with a distinct, stalk-like sterile base: exoperidium spiny or warty 



Lycoperdon 7: 106 



2. Peridium without sterile base ; gleba fertile throughout 



a. Peridium sessile or nearly so 



(1) Capillitium a dense elastic mass discrete from the peridium 



(a) Peridium persistent Lanopila7:g5 



(b) Peridium falling away Eriosphaera 7: 96 

 ( _' 1 Capillitium not dense elastic and discrete 



(a) Peridium persistent 



x. Mouth at apex, or lacking Eovista 7:96 



y. Mouth at base when in the ground 



Catastoma 11 : 165 



(b) Peridium entirely falling away Lycoperdopsis 16:243 



b. Peridium stipitate : exoperidium dehiscing above along undulating folds 



Calvatia 7: 105 



IV. Peridium without columella; gleba with cell-like spaces, often containing 



sporangioles, or powdery Subfamily Sclerodermatae 



1. Gleba without sporangioles, finally powdery 



a. Peridium none ; gleba naked, subcylindric 



Gymnoglossum 11:158 



b. Peridium present, enclosing the gleba 

 (1) Peridium sessile or nearly so 



(a) Peridium not dehiscent 



x. Gleba reticulate-veined, hard Corditubera 14:265 



y. Gleba not reticulate-veined, somewhat floccose 



(x) Spores globose Hippoperdon 7: 133 



(y) Spores fusiform Castoreum 7: 142 



(b) Peridium dehiscent stellately or irregularly 



Scleroderma 7: 134 



(2) Peridium stalked 

 (a) Peridium not dehiscent, clavate fCorynogaster 14: 266 



(b) Peridium dehiscent 



(inch Caloderma 16:243) 



!orynogaster 1 

 (Clavogaster) 



