n8 An HISTORY of FUNGUSSES, 

 CXLVI. LYCOPERDON bivohatum, primum album denique nigrum. 



globojum. 



GLOBE PUFF-BAL L. 



TAB. CXVIII. 



T Am defirous to diftinguifh this plant from the Lycoperdon 

 ■*■ bovijla, for the following reafons : In that it is furrounded 

 with two covers only ; the leathery coat, which furrounds and 

 adheres to the pith, and a foft downy epidermis, which is 

 eafily rubbed off, but is never diftinguifhed with any kind of 

 figures on its furface : In that it is conftantly of a globular 

 figure, of a mow white colour, till at maturity, and turns 

 black in decay; and in that it constantly grows amongft grafs 

 in meadow or pafture ground, and is never found in woods, or 

 in company with the Lycoperdon bovifta, in any of its Ihapes. 

 A flice cut off, and turned down at the top of one of the 

 figures, fhews the colour of the pith, while the plant is frefh ; 

 afterwards the downy covering falls off, the other coat 

 lacerates, with a wide mouth, as in the upper figure ; turns 

 black, and remains in this irate, full of a black fmoky pow- 

 der, for many weeks. 



It is a very common plant in the fields, in this part of 

 Yorkjlnre ; may, while young, be eaten withfafety; and has 

 a tafte much like that of the common mufhroom. 



The powder is ufed here, for flenching blocd, in fmall 

 new wounds. 



