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colifor’me, 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI! Lycoperdon. (1) Wrapper 
: ss ie permanent, a aid 
is a real Lycoperdon, and opens at the top. Lye. spadiccumt 
Scheff. 188 has.been referred to this, but this soli he and the 
habit do not agree. . 
On heaths, rare, <b toga +--+ April—Sept. 
LYCOPER'DON. Roundish, fleshy, firm: be- 
coming powdery and opening at the top : 
_seeds fixed to filaments connected with the 
Inner coat of the plant. ... : 
~ . .. {1). Wrapper permanent. § 
Lyc, Wrapper many-cleft, expanding: head spherical; 
depressed: fruit-stalks and mouths numerous, 
ot 30. : ae Dicks..3. ip od 2 ie SDN oe re 
Wrapper when ripe splitting into several segments which lie 
flat on the nd, expanded in form of a star. Head pierced 
with EF hones from which the dust escapes. Doopy in 
R, Syn. 28. Wrapper leathery, at first inclosing the head, 
when ripe splitting elastically into several segments; segments 
unequal, towards the ends marked with spots, the relics of the 
mouths of the head. Frwit-stalks supporting the head, several, 
short, near together, compressed, almost woody. Head 
brownish, covered. with a thin silvery pellicle, the upper surface 
pers with holes, full of a brown dust. .Mowths small, round, 
fringed, somewhat elevated. Dicks. “This Lycoperdon springs 
from. an ege' which lies on a level with, or just below the 
surface of the ground. .In this state it is nearly globular, but 
slightly compressed, of a dirty white, ‘wrinkled, scaly’; with 
a short thick root terminated by a few fibres. Cut open it shews 
a soft leathery coat, covering another which is thicker and much 
more tough, filled with a white curd-like substance of a dis- 
aprile smell. As yet there was no appearance of a head. 
¢ found'in August remained in this state to the-end of Novem- 
ber before it expanded ; when in a single day it was entirely 
raised out of the ground and fully expanded. ‘The root breaks 
off, 2nd is left in the earth, and the inversion of the plant neces- 
sarily raises it to the surface; what was before the upper and 
outer part of the wrapper being now next’'the ground. ‘This 
description of the method of opening applies to the L, stellatum 
and L..recolligens as well as to this species. ‘The head in the 
larger specimens is considerably compressed, of a brownish co- 
covered with a very thin pellicle of a beautifal silver greys 
eculiar to this species. ‘The apertures ate very numerous, 
slightly elevated and fringed with fine hairs. The pedicles 
which.do not. till the thick brittle coat (which is common 
. to this and the otherstellated species) dries or peels off, are very 
thread or strap shaped, In one specimen 
numerous, woody, - 
