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consequently I presume the species could not be recognized from a 

 specimen that had been collected say thirty years. This species is 

 certainly not synonymous with L. lyulcherrimum B. & C, as stated by 

 Peck. 



From 2/3 to 1^ in. diam. Ground and decaying wood in woods 

 and bushy places. United States. 



43. L. Bonordeni Mass. — Peridium umbonate capitate or obconic, 

 contracted into a short stem-like base, covered with ventricose spines, 

 white then umber, dehiscing by a torn umbonate mouth. Capillitium 

 forming a columella ; spores globose, smooth olivaceous, minute. — L. 

 hirtum, Bon. Bot. Ztg., 1857, p. 632. L. liirtum Mart, has priority. 



In woods. Europe. 



44. L. EaJcavu (Zipp.), Lev. Ann. Sci. Nat., 1844, p. 220. — Peridium 

 rotundato-deprested, covered with minute granular warts, plicate below 

 and passing into the furfuraceous obconic cellular stem. Capillitium 

 and lobose smooth spores oHve-brown. — Bovista Kcikavu Zipp. (Herb. 

 Lugd. atav.). 



About 1 decimetre high. On the ground. Java. 



45. L. hovista L., Sp. PL, 1653. — Peridium spherical or depressed, 

 sessile ; cortex thick, fragile and evanescent above, breaking up into 

 polygonal pieces, at first sub-tomentose, then smooth ; white, becoming 

 darker. Capillitium compact, continuous with the sterile cellular 

 base ; spores dusky olive, globose, smooth, rather variable in size, 5-6 yu, 

 diam. In Greville's fig. some of the spores are shown with a pedicel. — 

 L. hovista, Vitt. Mon., p. 181. Fr. S. M., iii. 29. Karst. Myc. Fenn., 

 iii. 360. Fr. Sverig. Svamp., Ixxii. Bulk, 447. Yitt. Lye, 181. L. 

 giganteiim, Fl. Dan., mdccccxx. Hussey, i. pi. 26. Pabst, Crypt. 

 Flor., t. 23. Cke. Hdbk., 1083. Eng. Flor., 303. Batsch, Elench., 

 p. 238, t. 39, f. 165. Sow., t. 332, upper fig. Corda, Ic, v. f. 40. 

 Bovista gigantea, Nees, Pilze, t. xi. f. 124, C. Grev., 336. L, 

 maximum, Schaefi". Ic, 191. Langermannia gigantea, Sturm, t. 10. 

 Glohularia gigantea, Quel. Champ. Jur. et Vosg., 362. 



Grows to a large size, sometimes a foot or more in diameter. 

 Grassy places. Summer and autumn. 

 Europe, North America. 



46. L. Fontanesii, D. E. & Lev., Fl. Alg., 381, t. 22.— Peridium 

 globose or broadly obovate, passing into a narrow strongly plicate base, 

 whitish becoming reddish ochre, thick and leathery, areolate or broken 

 up into soft elongated warts, fragile and breaking away in patches 

 above ; root stout, elongated. Capillitium dense, threads thicker than 

 diameter of spores, rarely branched, soon separating from the dense 

 minutely cellular, purple-brown prominent sterile base ; spores ferruginous 

 olive, sjlobose, smooth, often pedicellate, 4 /j, diam. — L. complanatum, 

 Desf. Fl. Atl, p. 435. 



Solitary or gregarious, varying in size from an apple to a child's 

 head. In sterile elevated limestone districts. 

 Algeria, New Zealand. 



47. L. caelatum, Bull. Champ., t. 430. — Peridium sessile or stipitate, 

 subglobose or depressed, cortex pale creamy ochre, very thin, minutely 

 furfuraceous, breaking away above in areolae ; inner coat thicker, smooth, 



