Lycoperdacecp, Lycoperdeaj, Lycoperdon. 123 



sursuin in squamas vel areolas parvas angulatas, persistentes fisso 

 tecto, crasso, subcorneo, saepe fragili, sursum demura in fragmenta 

 irrogularia rupto; capillitio ocliraceo brunneo, e floccis longis, fle- 

 xuosis, subinde ramosis, 7 ;j.. latis efformato; sporis concoloribus, 

 subglobosis vel late ellipsoideis, 5-6 u. diara. 



Hab. ad terram, Arizona Amer. borealis (Prinqle). — a An basi 

 sterili obsoleta potius Bovista?» 



71. Lycoperdon? gossypinum BulL Cliamp. p. 147, t. 435, f. 1. — •'^so 

 Peridio globoso-turbinato; corlice lanuginoso, persistente niveo-fu- 

 scescente. 



Hab. in truncis Gallia3. — Fungus G-7 mra. latus, basi iu sti- 

 piteni productus. 



B) Species asterosporse. 

 Species sporis echinulatis, papillosis vel verriiculosis donatae. 

 5 Sporie atro-purpuro.t; v. e lilacino vinosae. 



72. Lycoperdon cyathiforme Bosc in Berl. Mag. V, p. 87, t. VI, f. 11. 391 

 — Peridio subgloboso, plerumque basi crassa brevi stipitiformi in- 

 structo, albo-cinereo v. rubro-brunneo, levi v. subtiliter floccoso, 

 saepe spinulis rainutis sparsis v. squamis floccosis, areas dein effor- 

 mantibus obsito, dein cupulari-aperto, margine lacerato; capillitio 

 brunneo-purpurascente; sporis globosis, 5-6 y.. diam., rugulosis, con- 

 coloribus. 



Hab. in campis et pascuis Pjuftalo (Clinton), Utica (Jounson), 

 Fort Edward (Howe), Oneida (Warne), Albany, Sandlake, Mar^-- 

 land et S. Corinth (Peck), Vermont (Frost), Wisconsin (Brown) et 

 Carolina (Bosc, Curtis) Americcie borealis et prope Somerset East 

 Africic australis (Mac Owan). — Peridiuin 7-25 cm. diam. 



73. Lycoperdon atro-purpureum Vittad. Monogr. Lycoperdin. p. 42, 392 

 t. II, f. 6, Lycop. album Mich. t. 97, f. 4. — Peridio subgloboso, 

 basi plicato, villis v. aculeis mollibus obsito, sursum stellato-ver- 

 rucoso, sordide rufo, flaccido, osculo minuto obtuso dehiscente; gle- 



ba initio albida subcompacta, capillitio laxo, raro, fuscidulo e floc- 

 cis argillaceis constituto; sporis globosis, 5-7 [s.. diara., echinulatis, 

 brunneo-purpureis, pedicellatis. 



Hab. in quercetis Italiae borealis, Gallia? et Britannii\} in ins. 

 Bellot, freto Hayes et Mount Prospect. — Lycoperdo gemmato 

 affine. 



74. Lycoperdon elongatum Berk. in Hook. .Tourn. Bot. 1854, p. 171. 393 

 — Stipitc elongato, sursum incrassato, cura peridio obovato gra- 



