36 LYCOPERDON 



var. excipuliforme Desmaz. Lloyd, The Genus Lycop. in Eur. t. 49, as 



Lycoperdon Desmazieres. Excipula, a vessel ; forma, shape. 



Differs from the type in the peridium being contracted abruptly into 



a long, slender stem. Stumps and logs. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon. 



(v.v.) 



var. tessellatum Pers. Lloyd, The Lycop. Unit. St. t. 50, figs. 3-6. 



Tessellatum, checkered. 



Differs from the type in the reddish brown exoperidium becoming 

 broken up into indurated areolae. Stumps. Oct. Nov. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



45. L. spadiceum Pers. (= Lycoperdon Cookei Massee sec. Hollos.) 



Lloyd, The Genus Lycop. in Eur. t. 54. 



Spadiceum, date brown. 



Pe. 1-2 cm., bluish grey, soon yellowish, and finally light brown, 

 obovate and flattened below, or globose, abruptly contracted into a 

 stem-like base, and somewhat pear-shaped, whitish, becoming yellowish 

 towards the base ; exoperidium consisting of minute, nodular, granular 

 or subfurfuraceous spines; endoperidium concolorous, thin, often 

 covered with lime granules. Mouth apical, small, irregular. Gleba 

 olive, then brown. Sterile base whitish, then yellowish, and finally 

 umber brown, fairly large celled, convex, reaching to a third of the 

 peridium. Spores yellow, then olivaceous, globose, sometimes pedi- 

 cellate, 4/A. Capillitium yellowish, simple, rarely branched, 4-6/i in 

 diam. Gregarious. Sandy soil on heaths and lawns. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



**Sterile base with minute cells. 



46. L. polymorphum Vitt. (= Lycoperdon furfuraceum (Schaeff.) 



Sacc.) Lloyd, The Genus Lycop. in Eur. t. 34 and 52. 



7ToA.u9, many; popfyr], shape. 



Pe. -5-3 cm., white, then dirty yellow, or greyish brown, and finally 

 yellowish brown, somewhat reddish at the base when quite mature, round, 

 often depressed, sometimes pear-shaped, or attenuated into a stem- 

 like short base, thin, membranaceous ; exoperidium consisting of 

 minute, fugacious, furfuraceous spines and granules; endoperidium 

 thin, smooth and shining. Mouth apical, small, becoming torn. Gleba 

 yellowish, then olivaceous brown. Sterile base, very compact, con- 

 sisting of cells only perceptible under a lens, concolorous, reaching 

 to the apex of the stem-like base of the peridium. Spores yellowish, 

 very minutely warted, globose, sometimes with a wart-like basal 

 apiculus the remains of the sterigma, 3-4/1,. Capillitium yellowish, 

 or yellowish brown, branched, 4-6 /u, in diam. Sandy pastures and 

 heaths. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



