ACOTYLEDONS. FUNGI. FttligO. \\ 



9. LYCOPERDON. 



Peridium caulescent, at length bursting at the extremity, covered 

 externally with scaly warts, or small spinous processes. 



1. L. giga?iteum, nearly stemless globose very large whitish, 

 scales scattered obsolete. Pers. p. 140. Lye. B'ovista, var. 

 % lab rum, Lightf. p. 1066. Lye. Proteus, upper figures, 

 Sow. t. 332. 



HAB. Meadows and pastures, King's Park, Edinburgh, &c. Light/. 

 Grows to a great size, 8 or 1 inches in diameter. 



2. L. Bovista, large ohconical soft palish white plicate beneath, 

 scales broad. Pers. p. 141. L. Sovista, var. maculatum^ 

 Light/', p. 1067. L. Proteus, Sow. t. 332, lower figures. 



HAB. Meadows and pastures, Lightf. 

 2 4 inches broad. 



3. L. pratense, white soft, peridium hemispherical smoothish, 

 warts few, stem very short. Pers. p. 142. L. Bovista, var. 

 gramdatum. Light/', p. 1067. 



HAB. Meadows and pastures, Lightf. 



4. L. excipuliforme , large white varying in form, peridium 

 somewhat globose, warts spinulose scattered, stem rounded 

 long plicate. Pers. p. 143. L. Bovlsla, var excipuUforme. 

 Lightf. p. 1067. 



HAB. Meadows and pastures, Lightf. 



These four are probably, as the older botanists considered them, 

 varieties of each other, and are used indiscriminately as stiptics. 



5. L. pyriforme, csespitose pyriform timbonate pale brown, 

 scales extremely minute, fibrous radicles long. Pers. p. 148. 



HAB. On the ground in Castle Campbell, near Edinb. Mr. Greville. 

 23 inches high, studded all over with very minute elevated points. 



10. LYCOGALA. 

 Peridium roundish, membranaceous, smooth, internally filled 



with a fluid pulpy mass, afterwards with seminal dust, mixed 



with a few filaments. 



1. L. argentea, puivinate subhemisphaerical smooth of a silvery 

 colour. Pers. p. 157. Reticularia Lycoperdov, Sow. t. 272. 



HAB. On decayed trees and paling, in wet weather. On a fallen tree 

 in Cannyle wood, plentiful, Hopk. 



2. L. miniata, gregarious globose purplish red at first afterwards 

 brownish, dust purplish. Pers. p. 158. Lycotoerdon Epiden- 

 drum, Lightf. p. 1068. Sow. t. 52. 



HAB. Rotten wood after rains, in autumn and spring, Lightf. , Kopk. 



Varies in colour. 



11. FULIGO. 



In its early stage pulpy and for the most part effuse, varying in 

 form, externally rather compact and fibrous or hairy", mem- 

 branaceous at the base, within fibroso-cellular and hairy, at 

 length resolving into dust. 



