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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Lycoperdon. (1) Wrapper 
+ Bryant Lye. fo 19; the head only, but well expressed, Mr.. 
Woopwarp. : 
This, which is found on dry banks, usually amongst Ivy, is 
different from being smaller, and having the head flat at top, 
and the mouth extremely conical. It is almost black when dry, 
and the Rays usually turn up at the point, but do not rise so as to 
cover the head in the manner of L. recolligens. Mr. Woopwarp, 
fornica’tum Lye. (Hups.) Wrapper double; 4-cleft; arched: head 
smooth ; mouth blunt, fringed : stem short. 
Scheff. 183-Phil. trans. abr. x. 20. p. 107 ; Blackst. at 
pe 24, outer coat too smooth—Batsch 108—Bryant Lyc. 15 
and 20-Battar 39. f.4. 
The Rays may be sometimes 3 or 5, but only accidentally. 
The double wrapper adhering by the points which is never seen 
. ‘imany of the varieties of the L. stellatum is a grand distinctive 
mark, for the outer wrapper remains sunk in the ground, not 
being reversed and thrown out as in the stellatum, &c. Mr, 
Woopwarp. Wrapper 1 inch in diameter, rough and ash 
coloured on the outside, smooth and whitish within. Inner coat 
whitish within, reddish yellow without. Head oblate spheroidal 
brown, 6-Sths of an inch in diameter. Stem hardly 3 of an inch 
in height. Dr. Watson in Phil. trans... 
This plant in its expanded state, has a very singular and fan- 
ciful a ance. ‘The outer coat or wrapper remains in the 
eto widen the inner separating from it is raised up and bears 
the head upon its most elevated part, whilst the points of its seg- 
ments remain united with those of the outer wrapper, so that it 
is a globe supported upon 4 arched rays, the 4 points of the 
arches resting upon the 4 points of the outer wrapper which form 
an inverted arch. See Linn, Tr. vol. ii. for an excellent disser- 
tation on the Stellated Lycoperdons by Tuomas Jenkinson 
Woopwarp, Esq. : 
Meadows and pastures, at Buckebury, 10 miles from Read- 
ing, about Wickham, near Bromley, Kent; Biacxst.—Near 
Doncaster, Torteip ix F/. Ang.—Near Norwich on the slopes 
of old banks in a loamy soil, mostly in an eastern, and next to 
that a western aspect, commonly at the root of a shrub or tree. 
Bryant.—On the Links, Newmarket Heath. Rera.— [Near 
Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. Mr. Batnarp. About Birches 
Green near Birmingham, Mrs. Corrtz.] Oct.—Jan- 
recolligens, Lye. Wrapper many-cleft, enpanding.s scents equal : 
: mouth taper- 
_ ing upwards. Woopwarp, in Linn. tr. ii. 58. 
Schmid. 27 and 28, f.20 to 31-Bull.238 and 471. 1- 
Mich. 100. 3. 5-Gled. 6, Lycoperdon f. °.—Bryante f- 
3, 4, 5, 6, 10, - 
head globular, but flatted; ste 
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