cerned and that Fuckel's Exsic. No. 1884, belongs here as he states, 

 but I take no stock in his reference of the American species, Bovista 

 minor and Bovistella dealbata, to the same species. 



A MAMMOTH FORM OF LYCOPERDON 

 PULCHERRIMUM. 



What would undoubtedly have been a "new species", had it been 

 sent separately, was received from E. Bartholomew, Stockton, 

 Kansas. It was a large, turbinate plant (See Fig. 233) more of the 



Fig. 233. 

 Lycoperdon pulcherrimum (mammoth form 



shape of a Calvatia than of any Lycoperdon of our eastern states. It 

 had exactly the same cortex, gleba color, capillitium and spores as 

 Lycoperdon pulcherrimum and was accompanied by smaller plants 

 that are exactly our usual form of this species. We, therefore, have 

 to refer it to our eastern species, but if sent alone it would have been 

 a good "new species". Shape and size do not seem to count for 

 much in the puff balls, and our species develop more luxuriant forms 

 in the west than in our eastern states. 



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