foveolato; osculo coccineo, 4-5 dentibus instructo ; mycelio stipiti- 

 fortnij 12-25 rnillim. longo, e fibris cartilagineis, obscure nielleis 

 composite; sporis ovoideo-subglobosis, sub lente hyalinis, minute 

 asperatis, 9- 12 X 8- 10 /* . 



Hah. ad terrain, Mont Mou, Novae-Caledoniae. Leg. Le Rat cui 

 dicatus. 



Mitremyceti Ravenelii et M. Tylcri proximus. 



LYCOPERDON SUBVELATUM IN EUROPE. 



Among the first authors to give figures of "puff balls" was Micheli, 

 who wrote in 1783. and he was really the first to formulate any generic 

 idea as to these plants. He gave a characteristic figure of a Lycoper- 

 clon (T. 97, fig. 3) which has heretofore never reached me from 

 Europe, though I have what I take to be the same plant from Florida. 

 (Cfr. Myc. Notes, page 224). which we have called Lycoperdon sub- 



Fig. 121. 



velatum. \Ye have just received for the first time from Europe, from 

 Rev. Longinos Xavas. Spain, a plant (Fig. 121 and Fig. 120 cortex 

 enlarged) which corresponds to Micheli 's figure and also to 0:1 r 

 Florida plant. Hatsch seems to have been the first one to hunt up all 

 the figures of Lycoperdons (of which he knew nothing) and give them 

 names. He called this figure "Lycoperdon stellatum," but Linna-us had 

 previously designated all the figures of various Geasters that he found 

 as "Lycoperdon stellatum." and the name Lycoperdon stellatum never 

 had any specific meaning. 



Lycoperdon subvelatum is characterized by the gleba turning 

 quickly to purple, its subglobose form and the breaking up of its o >rt3 

 into stellate fragments. It is very close to Lycoperdon velatum. only a 

 reduced form I think. It is also close to Lycoperdon rimulatum'of 

 the United States (cfr. Myc. Xotes, p. 223), a form that is not known 

 from Europe. 



Lycoperdon subvelatum is a plant apparently only of a southern 

 range. In the United States it is only known from 'Florida, and in 

 Europe, Micheli illustrated it from Italy, and it reaches me from Spain. 

 \ aillant gave a figure (T. 16, f. 4) which seems to be the same plant, 

 rom the vicinity of Paris, but no modern mvcologist has ever found 

 any similar plant near Paris. 274 



