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About 1^ inch across, springing from a short rooting base, at 

 first clothed with minute echinate warts, which soon drop oft", and 

 leave the peridium minutely velvety. Capillitium and even globose 

 spores, *00016 in diameter ; clay-coloured. The spores appear at 



first to be pedicellate, but if so the pedicels soon drop off. 



* Lycoperdon saccatum. Fr. — New England, Sprague. No. 

 5388. 



330. Lycoperdon pulcherrimum. B. & C. — Obovatum verrucis 

 pyramidatis echinatis albis exasperatum, ore nullo, capillitio spo- 

 risque globosis lsevibus pedicellatis olivaceis. Pennsylvania, Miche- 

 ner. No. 3933. 



About 1 inch across, obovate, densely shaggy with white echinate 

 pyramidal warts ; smooth and plicate at the base; capillitium and 

 spores -00016 in diameter; olive, pedicellate. A very beautiful 

 species. 



# Lycoperdon cruciatum. Bosth.— Rhode Island. Olney. No. 

 1846. 



337. Lycoperdon delicatum. B. Sf C— Basi spongiosa sterili sti- 

 pitiformi arete a capillitio flavo subgilvo discreta, peridio pruinoso 

 furfuraceo. Pennsylvania, Michener. No. 3621, 3622. 



About 2-1- inches across, bare more or less stem shaped H-2^ 

 across, spongy, accurately separated as in L. ccelatum from the 

 capillitium ; peridium pruinoso-furfuraceous, very delicate, capil- 

 litium with the globose even spores, -00016 in diameter yellowish 

 here and there, inclining to pinkish. A very delicate looking 

 species, with a stout base. 



338. Scleroderma Texense. B.— Irregulare subfloccosum quan- 

 doquc areolatum, basi subapiculato sporis e lilacinis brunneis. Car. 

 Inf. No. 1392, 2208. 



About 1 inch across, irregular, subglobose, somewhat apiculate 

 at the base, sometimes wrinkled or areolate, floccose, spores lilac, 

 •0006- 0005 in diameter. A singular and very distinct species. 

 Originally gathered by Mr. Drummond in Texas, in whose speci- 

 m< us the spores are dark-brown and wider. I believe, however, 

 that they increase in size after they fall. 



* Podaxon carcinomale. Fr.— Piio Grande. New Mexico. 

 Wright. No. 6371. 



339. Mitremyces Ravenelii, B. minor.— Stipite, brevi, peridio. 

 exteriori in arc .Ins minutas rupto. — On the ground. Caesar's Head. 

 Inf. Ravenel. No. 1837. 



A small torm, about ^ of an inch high, with a very short or 

 te stem. The outer peridium breaks up into little areolute 

 patch 



* Mitremyces lutescens. Schroein. — Car. Inf. Curtis. No. 

 695. Texas. Drummond. 



