Puffballs 
Calostoma lutescens 
Ball or Peridium—Globular, with a thick, entangled, rooting base. 
Outer Coat or Exoperidium—Dingy yellow, rupturing so as to form 
a ragged collar at the base, a thin cap on the summit, and 
small fragments between. The cap is marked on the under 
side with a vermilion star outlined with yellow. 
Inner Coat or Endoperidium—Smooth, globular. Pale yellow. 
Mouth—With several rays of a bright red colour. 
Footstalk—Thick, of entangled strands finer than those of C. cin- 
nabarinum. Stem long, yellowish green. 
Spores—Globular, with protuberances. 
Calostoma Ravenelii 
Ball or Peridium—Globular, with a thick, entangled, rooting base. 
Outer Coat or Exoperidium—Cartilaginous, gelatinous. Fragments 
remain upon the inner coat in the form of irregular warts or 
scales. 
Inner Coat or Endoperidium—Yellowish. Tough when wet, rigid 
when dry. 
Mouth—Red starred. 
Footstak—Short and rooting, composed of mycelial threads netted 
to form cartilaginous cords. 
Spores—Elliptical, oblong, smooth. 
Calostoma cinnabarinum 
Outer Coat or Exoperidium—Vermilion within, breaking at the 
base and sometimes at the apex. 
Inner Coat or Endoperidium—y ellowish, often slightly vermilion. 
Smooth. 
Mouth—Rays several. Vermilion. 
Footstalk—Reddish brown or brownish. 
Spores—Elliptical oblong, spined or punctured, pale ochre 
yellow. 
Lii-tés’-céns Ra'-vén-él'-1-i Cin'-na-ba-ri’-ntim 
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