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in onr hedges, appear also to be from species of Erysiphe in a state 

 of imperfect development. 



(8.) The Lycoperdons are the J^uffibalfe*, the Jf\m=W&, the 

 JBebtl'S ^nuff43ortS, the 33Iint(=inan'iS»liuff of our chUdreu and 

 youngsters, who puff the light powdery contents of the fungus into 

 each other's faces, in frolicsome play. Aye ! — those were happy 

 days ; but the game was not one that could be played except in out- 

 of-the-way places amidst our hills, where I spent my early years. 

 And often have I attempted to blind my fellows thus ; — and ever in 

 vain ; — yet it is pleasant now, when years have whitened the hair, 

 and ripened the body to what must soon be harvest, to recall those 

 simple acts of the bygone time. It is a " Pleasure of Memory." I 

 am almost afraid to think that no such frolics may be enacted now, 

 — perhaps no such names are now familiar. Boys have grown big 

 and wise with the age, and are men from the beginning. This may 

 be development : — I am suspicious whether in the right direction. 

 But right or wrong, I, at all events, wish them to have such blithe- 

 some games as ours were when we went agathering Fussba's, that 

 we might puff their light dust into the faces of those we then liked 

 best, and may never forget ! 



Hyphomycetes. 



Ascophora mucedo. Botrytis crustosa. 



Mucor mucedo. parasitica. 



umbellata. (1) 



Pachnocybe subulata. . infestans. (2) 



Dematium hispidulum. Penicilliura crustaceum. 



Helminthosporium macro- Oidium monilioides. 



carpum. Sporendonema muscee. 



Cladosporium herbarum. Sepedonium chrysospermum. 



Aspergillus glaucus. Fusisporium flavo-virens. 

 Botrytis cinerea. 



(I.) See Trans. Berw. N. Club, ii. p. 214 ; and Ann. and Mag. 

 N. Hist. Ser. 2. i. p. 467- 



(2.) This infests potatoes diseased with the "rot" or murrain. 

 See Berkeley on the Potato murrain, p. 24 ; and Ann. and Mag. N. 

 Hist. xvii. p. 276. 



The members of this order are confounded, in common language, 

 under the name of ilHoulJJ. With its universal presence, and de- 

 structive property, every one is familiar, for it appears to be, not the 

 result, but the cause of the decay and decomposition of the bodies it 

 infests. Some of the species are beautiful microscopic objects. 



* " An old name of the fungus named Puff-ball is Puck-fist, which is 

 plainly Puck's-fist, and not Puff-fist as Nares conjectured; for its Irish 

 name is Cos-a-Phooka, or Pooka's foot, i. r. Puck's-foot." Keightley's 

 Faiix' Mythology, p. 317. 



