376 - CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Lycoperdon. (4) Stemiless; 
BSS. 
Batsch 229, Ss 
Rudely semi-globular when ripe, 13 to 2 inches diameter, 
compressed, and opening wich large rents at the top, when quite 
open the coats curl inwards. Base rude, knotty, buried in the 
earth. Séiz thick, leathery, strong, dirty yellow white, or 
‘brown, very uneven, but not rough, Powder brown dirt co. 
lour, not evidently intermixed with woolly fibres, but brittle. 
Barscu.—More leathery than any I have seen with a very 
large leathery root, Mr. SrackHouse. 
Drawing sent me by Mr, Stackhouse, but no habitat, 
ardosia’ce- Lye. (BuLL.) Stemless ; neatly globular, flexible, pur- 
um, plish lead colour, red within, changing to brown, 
Bull. 192, the 4 lonver fgures te. estes right bendy Batic 
_ 166, a 
- Grows on-the ground only, Exists mn after she digpetin 
wf the seeds, and rattles like parchment. BuLpiarpD.. 
_ Common on sandy heaths in Norfolk, Mr, Woopwarp, 
(4) STEMLESS} small: 
gossyp'I- Lx0. (Butt.) Head pear-shaped, white, cottany, taper 
num, at the base: seeds brown. | 
~ Bull, 435; Tp 
‘Head from j to. 2.10ths of an inch diameter, Me brown. 
‘when old. ey ee 
On rotten wood, ~ 
pisifor'me, Lye. Stemless, globular, ms mouth perforated, 
7 Facg- mitt. 4 Ts ~ 
The size of pea; sitting, crowded, brownish, rouph with 
minute warts, opening at the top. Mouth’ smooth. Nearly 
allied to the 1. epidendron, but has only one coat, whereas that 
has two. Jacq. Mr, Bulliard from inattention to this circum- 
» stance’ has placed it as a variety of the L. epidendron, It is 
either tawny or smoke coioured, but always, rough and warty, 
whereas the si epidendion i is smooth, 
epiphy Vlum Lye, Clustered, _parasitical : mouth puyol, torn $ 
dust tawny. 
Small, ‘sitting, tawny, variable in figure, Rein. xz. 983, not 
Lyc. epi Shy lum of Lightfoot, which is Trichia wie 
ies white, granulated, sped Bich are po 
1s er is composed of e articles w are pro- 
bably the seeds, ila ih 
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