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bed off when moist, and filled with a compact soft homo- 

 geneous mass of a purplish colour, which, in drying, be- 

 comes an impalpable rose-pink powder. 



3. L.fuliginosa, clustered, globular; peridium dull black, rough, 

 minutely granular ; powder french grey, very copious. 



Hub. On stumps of decayed fir-trees in Blackadder plan- 

 tations. Oct. 



Like L. miniata in size and figure. 



97- ONYGENA. 



1. O. equina, small, erect, white or cream coloured, furfura- 

 :eous ; stalk thickish, solid ; head globular, containing a compact 

 pulverulent mass of extremely minute grains. GREV. Crypt. Fl. 

 ,. 343. Lycoperdon equinum, WITH. iv. 413. Fungi parvi globosi, 

 &c. RAII, Syn. i. 13. t. 1. f. 3. DILL. Muse. t. 14. f. 5. 



Hob. On the hoofs of horses which have been long ex- 

 posed to and softened by the weather, very rare. 



The Scotch Flora owes this addition to its catalogue to my 

 friend the Rev. J. BAIRD of Yetholm, who found it in the 

 neighbourhood of that village, vegetating in profusion on 

 a much decayed hoof. There is nothing in the appear- 

 ance of the fungus to recommend it to our attention, but 

 the habitat it has chosen is a very singular one. 



Mr BAIRD has also sent me, from the same place, the hoof 

 of a calf, studded over with what may prove a distinct spe- 

 cies- This is sessile, subglobular, dull white, furfuraceous, 

 as large as rape- seed, the interior white, with minute pel- 

 lucid granules mixed with short fibres. Is it the prece- 

 ding in an early stage ? 



98. LEOCARPUS. 



I. L. vernicosus, " obovate, shining, chestnut colour, the peri- 

 lium fragile ; stipes pale, dilated at the base into a membrane ; 

 iporules forming a black mass." GREV. Fl. Edin. 453. ; Crypt, 

 FL t. 111. Lycoperdon fragile, WITH. iv. 420. Sow. Fung. 

 . 136. 



Hob. On fallen branches, and on stems of grasses, in clus- 

 ters ; remarkable for its neatness and beauty. Blackadder 

 plantations. Autumn. 



