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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



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Specimen from A. P. Morgan. 



Photo by C. G. Lloyd- 



Figure 463. Lycoperdon pulcherrimum. 



Lycoperdon umbriiutm. Pers. 



The Smooth Puffball. Edible. 



Umbrinum, dingy umber. Peridium obovate, nearly sub-turbinate, with a 

 soft, delicate, velvety bark; yellowish; inner peridium smooth and glossy, opening 

 by a small aperture. The spores and capillitium, olivaceous, then purplish-brown. 

 The capillitium with a central columella. A very attractive little plant, not fre- 

 quently found. This plant is also called L. glabellum. In woods, September 

 and October. 



