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* * Peridium with a deciduous operculum. 

 Cyathus Hall. 



130. Cyathus vernicosus (Bull.) DeCand. Peck, 22nd Rep., 

 page 90. Zopf, Die Pilze, Fig. 88. Bird's-nest fungus. (Nestfriichtig 

 Bauchpilz, Cier. ) On the ground. Lyndonville. Uncommon. 



Crucibulum, Tul. 



131. Crucibulum vulgare Tul. Peck, 22nd Rep., page 90. 

 Bennett and Murray, Crypt. Bot. , Figs. 327, 328. Zopf, Die Pilze, 

 page 376. Little crucible fungus, from its resemblance to a chemist's 

 crucible. On ground. Common. 



Family III. LYCOPERDACEiC. 

 Sub-Family 2. DIPLODERME^. 



(iEASTER Mich. 



132. Geaster limbatus Fr. Peck, 44th Rep., page 23. 

 Morgan in " North American Geasters," Journal of Mycology, vol. i, 

 page 7. Trelease, " The Morels and Puff Balls of Madison, Wis.," 

 })age 109. Fringed Earth-star. I'ndcr hedge rows, Lyndonville. 



Sub-Family 3. LYCOPERDE^. 



Ikn'isTA Dill. 



133. Bovista pila.B. and C. Peck, 30th Report N. Y. State 

 Museum, page 49. Trelease, "The Morels and Puff Balls of Madi- 

 son," page III, and Plate \T1., Fig. 6. Our specimen has the 

 peridium smooth, shining, black. Trelease says, loc. cit. , that it "is 

 excellent eating when gathered young and properly cooked." On 

 gnuuid in ])astuics, Lyndonville. Not common. 



Lycoperdon Tourn. 



134. Lycoperdon gemmatum Batsch. I'eck, 22nd Rep., 

 jjage 88. Trelease, loc. cit., page 114. Wood's " Reference Hand- 

 book Med. Sc. ," page 281. Figured by Trelease, loc. cit., Plate 

 VHL, Fig. J. Warty Puff Ball. 



135. Lycoperdon Wrightii B and C. Peck, 22nd Rep., p. 

 88. Trelease, loc. cit., page 114, and I^late VII., Fig. 8. Wright's 

 Puff P.all. Spiny Puff Ball. Lyndonville. 



iT,(>. Lycoperdon pyriforme Schaeff. Peck, 22nd Re])., page 

 88. Trelease, loc. cit., page 115, and Plate VHL, Fig. 5. Pear- 

 shaped Puff Ball. Common on buried sticks. Zopf, Die Pilze, page 

 371, says that this is the most common representative of the Puff 

 Balls in Germany. 



