Capillitium hyaline or colored.! sparingly branched. Spores giobose, 

 4 mic. smooth. Pedicels slender, caducous. 



This plant is a very rare plant in Europe but a very common species 

 in the United States. It grows in pastures and open places, also is often 

 found in stubble fields after the grain is cut. 



REFERENCES : Berkeley correctly referred the American plant excepting he 

 described some specimens that reached him with the cortex gone, as Lycoperdon 

 calvescens. Peck first called it Lycoperdon separans, afterwards Lycoperdon 

 Wrightii van separans (cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 153) and Morgan used Peck's name 

 Lycoperdon separans. The American plant cannot be distinguished from the 

 European. It will be noticed from the list of stations given below that the plant 

 extends over almost our entire country excepting the Pacific Coast states. 



SPECIMENS IN OCR COLLECTION. 



Canada, John Dearness, Miss I. M. Walker. T. N. Willing; Maine, D. A. 

 Baldwin. P. L. Ricker; Neiv Hampshire, T. L. Smith, C. E. Montgomery, Miss 

 Alice Theobald; Massachusetts. Chas. W. Jenks. Simon Davis, R. B. Mackintosh. 

 F. L. Sangent. Mrs. E. B. Blackford. T. L. Smith. C. E. Preston, A. L. Dean. 

 S. S. Crosby, Clara E. Cummings, Geo. E. Morris, H. E. Warner, A. B. Seymour; 

 Connecticut, J. B. Rorer, E. P. Ely; Wisconsin. R. H. Denniston, Wise. Myc. 

 Club ; Minnesota, E. P. E'y. Minn. Bot. Survey ; Michigan, B. O. Longyear. H. C. 

 Beardslee; New York, Chas. Peck; Pennsylvania, C. H. Baker. Mrs. Geo. M. 

 Dallas. Caroline A. Burgin, T. Gardner; West Virginia. W. H. Walmcslcy, C. G. 

 Lloyd, Dr. J. G. Selby; Washington, D. C.. Margaret L. Sewall, F. J. Braendle: 

 Neiv Jersey, H. A. Bird, Mrs. Geo. M. Dallas; Indiana. H. B. Dorner; Illinois. 

 W. S. Moffatt, A. S. Bertolet ; Ohio. M. G. Bohn. Wm. Holden. Dr. H. L. True. 

 W. C. Dawson, C. G. Lloyd, A. P. Morgan. E. J. Arrick ; Georgia. Berry Benson ; 

 Tennessee. Mrs. M. S. Percival ; Alabama. A. S. Bertolet ; Texas, W. H. Long, Jr.. 

 T . W. Stiles ; North Carolina. O. Katzenstein, W. L. Poteat, E. A. Lehman ; South 

 Carolina, P. H. Rolfs; Florida. Theo. L. Mead. G. W. Webster. Mrs. M. A. Noble. 

 C. H. Baker, C. G. Lloyd, H. C. Culbertson. C. E. Pleas, H. H. Hume; Missouri. 

 C. H. Demetrio, Dr. N. M. Glatfeltcr; Kansas. E. Bartholomew; Iowa, ]. F. 

 Clarke, L. R. Waldron ; Arkansas, F. W. Patterson; Nebraska, Rev. J. M. Bates: 

 Colorado, Chas. E. Bessey. 



LYCOPERDOX WRIGHTII (Plate 67). Plants small, usually 

 about a cm. in diameter, rarely 2 cm., generally caespitose. Cortex- of 

 small spines, about 2 mm. that flake off, but not in large pieces as the 

 previous species. After the separation of the cortex, the peridium is 

 furfuraceous. Sterile base of laree cells but usually slightly developed. 

 sometimes almost none. Gleba olive then brown. 'Capilliti'um of thick- 

 flaccid septate, hyaline threads two or three times the diameter of the 

 spores. Spores small, 3-4 mic. smooth. 



This little species is quite frequent in short grass, and takes kindly 

 to yards, gardens and often to paths. It does not grow in Europe.j 

 Its peculiar capillitium character was first pointed out by Morgan. 



REFERENCES : The species was named and described by Berkeley from some 

 old specimens that had lost their cortices and he gave a fairly good description 

 ot it excepting he mistook the furfuraceous remains on the old peridium for the 

 cortex and described it as having "minute echinulate warts." Peck correctly 



think t itv a a I ?ie V s e mi^r^^f ?led tO n fit l d ?*>. sometimes hyaline, sometimes colored. I 

 subprateni'^hourii I never'*' t P 5 rha P s th ' s is ' he ex P'anation of the species Lvcoperdon 

 plant never noted a y col red capillJUum in European specimens of that 



mentiasnTsemblanTof tTuih r * ives U as a s .vnym for Lycoperdon pratense.wl.ich state- 



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