ii8 LYCOPERDACEAE 



y. Exoperidium cup-shaped, mouth minute, ciliate 



Diplocystis 7 : 92 

 (2) Spores borne on the outside of endoperidium ; stellate 



Trichaster 7 : 93 

 b. Endoperidia several 



(1) Mycelium crust-like; capillitium not hollow 



Broomeia 7: 93 



(2) Mycelium not crust-like; capillitium hollow 



Coelomyces 7: 94 



III. Peridium without a columella ; exoperidium lacking or consisting of a papery 



or spiny cortex; gleba floccose Subfamily Lycoperdae 



1. Peridium with a distinct, stalk-like sterile base; exoperidium spiny or warty 



Lycoperdon 7 : 106 



2. Peridium without sterile base; gleba fertile throughout 



a. Peridium sessile or nearly so 



(i) Capillitium a dense elastic mass discrete from the peridium 



(a) Peridium persistent Lanopila7:95 



(b) Peridium falling away Eriosphaera 7 : 96 

 (2) Capillitium not dense elastic and discrete 



(a) Peridium persistent 



X. Mouth at apex, or lacking Eovista 7 : 96 



y. Mouth at base when in the ground 



Catastoma 11: 165 



(b) Peridium entirely falling away Lycoperdopsis 16:243 



b. Peridium stipitate; exoperidium dehiscing above along undulating folds 



Calvatia 7: 105 



IV. Peridium without columella ; gleba with cell-like spaces, often containing 



sporangioles, or powdery Subfamily Sclerodermatae 



I. Gleba without sporangioles, finally powdery 



a. Peridium none ; gleba naked, subcylindric 



Gytnnoglossuin 11: 158 



b. Peridium present, enclosing the gleba 



(1) Peridium sessile or nearly so 



(a) Peridium not dehiscent 



x. Gleba reticulate-veined, hard Corditubera 14: 266 



y. Gleba not reticulate-veined, somewhat floccose 



(x) Spores globose Hippoperdon 7: 133 



(y) Spores fusiform Castoreum 7:142 



(b) Peridium dehiscent stellately or irregularly 



Scleroderma 7: 134 



(incl. Caloderma 16:243) 



(2) Peridium stalked 



(a) Peridium not dehiscent, clavate fCorynogaster 14:266 



(Clavogaster) 



(b) Peridium dehiscent 



