Gastromycetes 



Lycoperdon. teristic of the species is the hyaline threads of the capillitium ; although 

 they are of large diameter, yet the walls are very thin and the threads 

 collapse in drying. Morgan. 



General. Growing gregariously and sometimes cespitosely on the 

 ground, in meadows, pastures and even in cultivated fields. 



This being L. Wrightii, var. typicum Pk. , and being edible, it is hardly 

 necessary to repeat the old axiom : Things which are equal to the 

 same thing are equal to one another. 



(z) Cortex of minute spinules, granules, etc. 



L. molle Pers. mollis, soft. (L. muscorum Morg.) Peridilim 

 6 1 6 lines broad, globose or depressed-globose, narrowed below into a 

 stem-like base, furfuraceous with nearly uniform persistent minute weak 

 spinules or granular warts, sometimes with a few larger papilliform ones 

 toward the apex, whitish, sometimes tinged with yellow, when mature 

 brownish or olive-brown, nearly smooth, subshining; capillitium and 

 spores dingy-olive; columella present. Spores minutely rough, 4-4.5/4 

 in diameter. 



Among mosses, especially Polytrichum, in old meadows and pastures. 

 Albany, Summit and South Corinth. Autumn. 



Peck, 32d Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



West Virginia, Pennsylvania. On ground in woods and grassy places 

 in the open. Mcllvaine. 



L. molle is of frequent occurrence but not 

 ( Plate CLXXI.) 



abundant. Though exceedingly soft, it holds 



its body in cooking and is well flavored. 



L. Tur'neri E. and E. Peridium 



obovoid, somewhat depressed above, pli- 

 cate underneath, with a mycelium of 

 rooting fibers. Cortex white, often gray 

 or brownish above, consisting of minute 

 spinules with intermingled granules ; these 

 after maturity dry up and are quite per- 

 LYCOPERDON TURNER: sistent > forming a minutely scabrous coat on 



With magnified spores. the olive-brown shining surface of the inner 



(After Morgan.) 



peridium. Subgleba broad and shallow, 



scarcely occupying more than a fourth part of the peridium ; mass of 



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