584 230. Lycop..9.GASTEROMYCE, Pl. cell. aph. 
3. Lycoperdon utriforme. Bottle puff-ball. 
Sporangium reverse-ovate, cylindrical, pale smoke-grey, 
smoothish; stem not distinct. 
Lycoperdon utriforme, Bulliard Champ. 153. 
On grass-ground. 
4, Lycoperdon excipuliformis. Receiwerlike puff-ball. 
Sporangium white, nearly globular, scaly; scales spinous, 
scattered ; stem roundish, long, plaited. 
Lycoperdon excipuliforme, Scopoli Carn. 163). 
Lycoperdon Proteus excipuliforme, Bulliard Champ. 149. 
Lycoperdon Proteus, Sowerby Fungi, 332, in part. 
In fir-plantations on the ground; autumn. 
5. Lycoperdon perlatum. Pearly puff-ball. 
Sporangia in tufts, bossed, whitish; slem rather long, 
cylindrical; warts compact, round, deciduous, ending in a 
point. 
Lycoperdon gemmatum, Fl, Dan. 1120. 
Lycoperdon Proteus, Bulliard Champ. \A4&. 
Lycoperdon excipuli chemici forma, Vaillant Paris, 12, 1a. 
Lycoperdon album, totum aculeatum, altiori basi donatam, Micheli N. 
Gen. 217. 
Lycoperdon perlatum, Persoon Syn. 145. 
In woods; autumn. 
6. Lycoperdon pyriforme. Pearshape puff-ball. 
Sporangia in tufts, pearshaped, bossed, pale smoke-grey ; 
scales very thin; roots long, fibrous. 
Lycoperdon pyriforme, Scheffer Icon. Fung. 135. 
Lycoperdon Proteus ovoideum, Bulliard Champ. 143. 
On rotten trunks of trees, seldom on the ground; 
autumn. 
7. Lycoperdon gossypinum. Cottony puff-bail. 
‘Spofangia gregarious, minute, globular topshape, slightly 
cottony, pale. 
~ Lycoperdon gossypinum, Bulliard Champ. 147. 
On rotten trunks of trees. 
XXX. 231. GEASTRUM. Persoon. Shell-puff. 
Sporangium globular, sessile; outer peridium leatherlike, 
expanding and turning back starwise ; inner peridium mem- 
branaceous, sessile or pedicelled; apex ending in a cylin- 
drical mouth; peduncle simple; sporidia pedicelled upon 
the flocci. 
