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LYCOPERDON volvaceum prima cetate fubterraneum. Bulliard CCXXVIIT. 

 Texte, P. 1 60. No. 1 O.. Geajier major umbilico fimbriato. jieliatum. 

 Mich. Gen. P. 220. Lycoperdon Jieliatum. Scbcef. Fung. 

 P. 126. No. 270. Ray Syn. P. 27. No. 11. 



STARRED LYCOPERDON. 



TAB. CLXXIX. 



^T^HE firft appearance of this Lycoperdon is a round ball, 

 ■*• riling out of the earth ; the volva or outer covering of which 

 divides and opens in feveral petal like fegments, which give it a 

 flower-like appearance ; within is a globular Lycoperdon, feflile 

 at the opening of the volva, but afterwards rifes, and is fupported 

 on a fhort ftem. 



The fegments of the volva are of a thick flefhy fubftance, and 

 a duiky brown, except the margins, which are thin, and of a 

 paler colour; they are not equal in fize or fhape, fome being 

 broader, fome narrower, fome fubdivided, and their number is 

 uncertain. 



The central globe, or head, is at firrr. furrounded by a thin net- 

 ted covering, of a bluifh brown colour, which falls off and 

 vanifhes j after which, the capitulum or central globe breaks at 

 the fummit, and difcharges a dull: like the other Lycoperdons ; 

 after which, it becomes wrinkled, flaccid, turns to a dirty brown, 

 and foon perifhes. 



Grows on the borders of Sivains-Moor, near Halifax, but is 

 rare there. 



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