TAB. CCCCT. 



LYCOPERDON kp.colligens Woodzcard in Linn. 

 Trans, vol. 2. 58. JVith. vol. 4. 375. 



1 HAVE long wished to add the description of this 

 curious Fungus, as a debt owing in the third volume 

 of this work. It is omitted by Gmelin ; and he seems 

 to confound L. sessile with L. stellatuin, from which it is 

 certainly distinct — see my plate 80, which I have called 

 L. rccolligens. I am greatly obliged to the Rev. Mr. Dalton 

 for setting me right, by favouring me with the specimens 

 of L. recolligens here figured. From many experiments 

 with L. stellatum, and what I would call L. sessile, I find 

 it more apt to recoil or expand than they are, and in 

 a more remarkable manner ; for by damping it the volva 

 immediately expands, and in drying it contracts, con- 

 trary to Avhat they do, which expand in drying, and coil 

 up on being damped. 



It has other characters by which it may be di- 

 stinguished from them. Its head is orbicular with a 

 large mouth, a little flattened ; the volva is thin and 

 smoother. The one figured at tab. 80, now L. sessile, 

 has an ovate head, rather pointed apex, and the mouth 

 scarcely more than as if torn ; the head always sessile. 

 The head of L. stellatum is rounder and pedunculated, 

 so is that of L.fornicatum ; but its standing so regularly 

 on four points is a sufiicient distinction ; although their 

 being so nearly alike in other respects has caused some 

 dispute whether this may not be accidental : I have, 

 however, sufficient specimens to show that it is constant. 



