180 FUNGI OF EAST DORSET. 



In woods, often in pairs ; spinose, spines 

 surrounded with warts ; common, edible. Witch- 

 ampton, Mrs. E. W. Baker. Plantation N. of 

 Ferndown. Sutton Holms. Great Down Copse ; 

 Furze Common Copse ; woodland about Castle 

 Hill, in Edmondsham. Woodland S. of Alderholt 

 Park. 



L. hie male Bull. (L. depressum Bon.) (Lat., of 

 winter). 



Downs, pastures, and woodland ; well distributed, 

 if not common. Downs N. of Swanage, Nine 

 BarrowDown ; near Studland ; meadows by Quince 

 Hill Wood, and by Talbot Wood, Langton ; Corfe 

 Meadow ; Creech Down, C. B. Green. Edmondsham 

 Park. Castle Hill, Cranborne. Field by Furze 

 Common Copse. Great Down. 



L. caelatum Bull. (Lat. chiselled, from the tesselate 

 pileus). 



In pastures, open woodland, &c. ; base more or 

 less elongate ; not very common, but well 

 distributed. Near Studland ; above Swanage 

 quarries ; Bushey ; Fitzworth Heath, C. B. Green. 

 In Edmondsham Rectory grounds. Longcraft, 

 and Hyles' in Edmondsham. Furze Common 

 Copse. 



L. bovista Linn. (L. giganteum Hussey). 



Grassy places, in woods, &c. ; growing to a large 

 size, sometimes over a foot broad ; uncommon, 

 not in the N. Forest list. Plantation S. of Cranborne 

 in a glade, measuring Sin. x llin. across. 



Family 4. SCLERODERMEAE Fr. (" Earth- 

 balls.") 



Peridium thick, rupturing irregularly. 



Genus 1. SCLERODERMA Pers. (Gr., skleros, hard, derma, 

 skin, from the firm peridium). Peridium warted. 



