464 LYCOPERDACEiE Battarrea 



Fam. VIII. LYCOPERDACE^l 



Peridium double, rarely single, gelatinous stratum absent. Spores 

 forming a powdery mass at maturity, mixed with a well-developed 

 capillitium. A very feeble membrane separating the gleba from the 

 double outer peridium, may be detected in immature examples. 



Species 2046—2084 



Key to the Genera. 



Peridium vertically compressed. Stoma apical 111 Battarrea. 



Peridium subglobose. 



Stoma apical 112 Tulostoma. 



Stoma none 113 Qtjeletia. 



Exoperidium splitting in a stellate manner 1 14 Geaster. 



Exoperidium breaking up in the form of warts or spines. 



Base sterile 115 Lycoperdon. 



Exoperidium flaking off in patches. Sterile base absent ... 116 Bovista. 



CXI. BATTARREA Pers. 

 (After Antonio Battarra.) 



Volvo, universal, central stratum gelatinous. Peridium vertically 

 compressed, pileus-like, bursting through the volva and at length 

 raised on a tall stem. (Fig. 127.) 



2046. B. phalloides Pers. (from a fancied resemblance to Ithy- 

 phallus ; Gr. eidos, appearance) a b. 

 Pe. convex, bearing the spores and capillitium, orange-brown. 

 St. hollow with a central pith of silky threads, wall of three 

 layers, the outer broken up into coarse fibres pointing down- 

 wards, orange-brown. Vo. ovate formed of two white mem- 

 branes with an internal gelatinous olive-yellow layer. 



In and near decayed trees, ash, on sandhills. Dec. I2| x 2 in. When in 

 the young state sometimes buried several inches deep in sand or decayed 

 wood. Sometimes 14 in. high with a pileus 2\ in. in diam. 



