TAB. CCLXXI. 



LYCOPERDON variolosum. Fl. Ang. 

 SPH^RIA LYcoPERDOiDES. With. ed. 3. 392. 



JbREQUENT on ftumps and flicks in damp woods, 

 though not readily obferved in the young or fmall 

 Hate ; but when nearly matured, it may moft readily 

 be diftinguifhed by the cruftaceous covering of a brick- 

 red on the outfide, and whiter within. This covering 

 is fomewhat brittle, when ripe cracking irregularly, 

 and encloling a blackifh feed. 



T A B. CCLXXII. 



RETICULARIA Lycoperdon. Bull. 446. Jig. 4. 



With. ed. 3. 386. 

 LYCOPERDON fuscum. Hudf. 645. 



P OUND occafionally on trees and paling after rain, 

 chiefly in autumn. At firft it has a mucilaginous ap- 

 pearance, fomewhat frothy and whitifli ; afterwards 

 the outward flcin refembles parchment with a filvery 

 glofs, but is very tender. At length, the leaft breath 

 of air will lacerate it, and a fine brown powder is ex- 

 pofed to view, mixed with a few fibres. I doubt 

 whether this be properly a Reticularia. If it be, fo are 

 L. epidendrum^ and its variety L. pijiforme of Jacquin. 

 The plants of this genus are mucilaginous in the 

 beginning; they vary extremely withinfide, as may 

 be feen in our R. multicapfula^. tab. 179, and R. alba^ 

 tab. 280. 



The reprefentation of the duft in the lowermofl 

 figure is coloured with the powder of the plant itfelf. 



