584 230. Lycop. 9. GASTEROMYCEiE. Pl.celLaph. 
3. Ly coper don utriforme. Bottle puff-ball . 
Sporangium reverse-ovate, cylindrical, pale smoke-grey, 
smoothish ; stem not distinct. 
Lycoperdon utriforme, Bulliard Champ. 153. 
On grass-ground. 
4. Lycoperdon excipuliformis. Receiverlike puff-ball. 
Sporangium white, nearly globular, scaly; scales spinous, 
scattered ; stem roundish, long, plaited. 
Lycoperdon exci puli forme, Scopoli Cam. 1631. 
Lycoperdon Proteus exeipuliforme, Bulliard Champ. 149. 
Lycoperdon Proteus, Sowerby Fungi , 332, in part. 
In fir-plantations on the ground ; autumn. 
5. Lycoperdon perlatum . Pearly puff-ball. 
Sporangia in tufts, bossed, whitish ; stern rather long, 
cylindrical; warts compact, round, deciduous, ending in a 
point. 
Lycoperdon gemmatum, FI. Dan. 1120. 
Lycoperdon Proteus, Bulliard Champ. 14S. 
Lycoperdon exciptali chemici forma, Vaillanl Paris , 12, 15. 
Lycoperdon album, totum aculeatum, altiori basi donatum, Micheli N. 
Gen. 217. 
Lycoperdon perlatum, Persoon Syn. 145. 
In woods; autumn. 
6. Ijycoperdon pyriforme. Pearshape puffball. 
Sporangia in tufts, pearshaped, bossed, pale smoke-grey; 
scales very thin ; roots long, fibrous. 
Lycoperdon pyriforme, Schceffer Icon. Fung. 135. 
Lycoperdon Proteus ovoideum, Bulliard Champ. 143. 
On rotten trunks of trees, seldom on the ground ; 
autumn. 
7. Lycoperdon gossypinum. Cottony puff-ball . 
Sporangia gregarious, minute, globular topshape, slightly 
cottony, pale. 
Lycoperdon gossypinum, Bulliard Champ. 147. 
On rotten trunks of trees. 
XXX. 231. GEASTRUM. Persoon. Shell-puff. 
Sporangium globular, sessile ; outer peridium leatherlike, 
expanding and turning back starwise ; inner peridium mem- 
branaceous, sessile or pedicelled ; apex ending in a cylin- 
drical mouth; peduncle simple; sporidia pedicelled upon 
the flocci. 
