Gastromycetes 



Lycoperdon. inside ; intensely bitter when slightest tinge of yellow is visible. Onetooold 

 will embitter a whole dish. A little lemon juice or sherry improves it. 



( Plate CLXXIII.) 



LYCOPERDON SUBINCARNATUM 



With spines and pits magnified. 



(After Morgan.) 



L. subincarna'tum Pk. pale flesh-color. Peridium 6-12 lines 



broad, globose, rarely either de- 

 pressed or obovate, gregarious or 

 cespitose, sessile, with but little cel- 

 lular tissue at the base, covered with 

 minute nearly uniform pyramidal or 

 subspinulose at length deciduous 

 warts, pinkish-brown, the denuded 

 peridium whitish or cinereous, mi- 

 nutely reticulate-pitted ; capillitium 

 and spores greenish-yellow, then 

 dingy-olivaceous, columella present. 

 Spores minutely roughened, 4~5/x, 

 in diameter. 



Prostrate trunks, old stumps, etc., in woods. Common. August to 

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



New York, Peck, Rep. 24th, 32d; Pennsylvania, Gentry; Ohio, 

 Morgan; Wisconsin, Brown. 



B. PERIDIUM VERY SMALL, GLOBOSE, ETC* 

 (/) Cortex a tkin coat of minute spinules, etc, 



( Plate CLXXIV.) 



L. Wright'ii B. and C. in honor 

 of Charles Wright. Peridium 

 globose, depressed-globose or lenti- 

 form, 624 lines in diameter, gener- 

 ally sessile, white or whitish, echinate 

 with deciduous sometimes crowded 

 stellate spines or pyramidal warts, 

 when denuded smooth or minutely 

 velvety ; capillitium and spores dingy- 

 olive, columella present. Spores 

 smooth, 4/t in diameter. Edible. 



Ground in pastures and grassy 

 places. Very common. July to Octo- 

 ber. 



604 



LYCOPERDON SEPARANS 



With magnified spores. 



(After Morgan.) 



