Puffballs 



e. 

 Calostoma lutescens 



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Ball or Peridium Globular, with a thick, entangled, rooting base. 



Outer Coat or Exoperidium Dingy yellow, rupturing so as to form 

 a ragged collar at the base, a thin cap on the summit, and 

 small fragments between. The cap is marked on the under 

 side with a vermilion star outlined with yellow. 



Inner Coat or Endoperidtum Smooth, globular. Pale yellow. 



Mouth With several rays of a bright red colour. 



Footstalk Thick, of entangled strands finer than those of C. cin- 

 nabarinum. Stem long, yellowish green. 



Spores Globular, with protuberances. 



Calostoma Ravenelii 



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Ball or Peridium Globular, with a thick, entangled, rooting base., 

 Outer Coat or Exoperidium Cartilaginous, gelatinous. Fragments 



remain upon the inner coat in the form of irregular warts or 



scales. 

 Inner Coat or Endoperidium Yellowish. Tough when wet, rigid 



when dry. 

 Mouth Red starred. 

 Footstalk Short and rooting, composed of mycelial threads netted 



to form cartilaginous cords. 

 Spores Elliptical, oblong, smooth. 



Calostoma cinnabarinum 



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Outer Coat or Exoperidium Vermilion within, breaking at tfi 



base and sometimes at the apex. 

 Inner Coat or Endoperidium Yellowish, often slightly vermilion. 



Smooth. 



Mouth Rays several. Vermilion. 

 Footstalk Reddish brown or brownish. 

 Spores Elliptical oblong, spined or punctured, pale ochre 



yellow. 



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