Pl. cell. aph. 9. GASTEROMYCEZ. 296. Spheerob. 581 
Spherobolus stellatus. ‘ Starry spring-bag. 
Sporangium globular, white, becoming yellow, and after- 
wards brown. 
Carpobolus albicans, Micheli N. Gen. 221. 
Lycoperdon Carpobolus, Lin. S. P. 1654; Sowerby Fungi, 22. 
Spheerobolus steltiatus, Zode Meckl. 1,43. 
On rotten leaves and wood. 
Peridia covered at first with a white wool-like substance. 
K. LycoperponipE®. Peridia double, the outer sepa- 
rating in scaly, prickly flocci, or regularly formed pieces ; 
the inner membranaceous, of interwoven fibres, torn by 
the expansion of the flocci. 
XXVI. 227. SCLERODERMA. Persoon.  Skin-litter. 
Sporangia nearly globular, often attenuated below, with 
rootlike fibres; peridia double, the outer adnate, warty, 
cracked, bursting irregularly ; sporidia collected into heaps, 
purplish brown or ferrugineous. 
1. Scleroderma citrinum. Lemon-yellow skin-litter. 
Sporangia middle-size, roundish, depressed, pale lemon- 
yellow, slightly scaly; scales thick. 
Lycoperdon defossum, Batsch Fung. 2, 126. 
Scleroderma citrinum, Persoon Syn. 153. 
Scleroderma Aurantium, Perscon Syn. 153. 
Lycoperdon cervinum, Bolton Fung. 162, not of Linnaus. 
Lycoperdon Aurantium, Bulliard Champ. 158; Sowerby Fungi, 268, 
On the ground and mosses at the roots of trees. 
Sporangia 1 or 2 inches in diameter, depressed ; sporidia 
purplish-brown. 
2. Scleroderma verrucosum. Warty skin-litter. 
Sporangia large, roundish, reddish-brown, scaly; scales 
small; base pedicell-like, long, rooting. 
Lycoperdon verrucosum, Bulliard Champ. 157, 
Scleroderma verrucosum, Persoon Syn. 154. 
Lycoperdon defossum, Sowerby Fungi, 331, not Batsch, 
On the ground at the root of trees. 
3. Scleroderma spadiceum. Chestnut skin-litter. 
Sporangia globular, depressed, smooth, chestnut-brown, 
stemlike basis thickest at bottom, hard, fibrous; sporidia 
purplish-brown. 
