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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1914 
From the localities in which this fungus has been collected it is evidently 
of very general tropic and subtropic distribution. It has been collected in 
North America, Europe, South Africa, Siberia, Ceylon and Java. 
SCLERODERMA Persoon 
SCLERODERMA VULGARE Fr. Syst. Myc. 3 (1832) 46. 
Lycoperdon majus Vail. Bot. Paris (1727) 122, pi. 16, fig. 8. 
Lycoperdon cervinum Bolt. Hist. Fung. (1788-1791) 116. 
Lycoperdon aurantium Bull. Champ. France (1791-1798) 158. 
Scleroderma aurantium Pers. Syn. Fung. (1801) 153. 
Scleroderma citrinum Pers. 1. c. 153. 
Lycoperdon tessulatum Schum. Enum. Plant. Sael. 2 (1803) 191. 
Scleroderma squamatum Chev. FI. Gen. Paris (1827) 357. 
Babuyanes Islands, Camiguin, Bur. Sci. U17U Fenix, June-July, 1907. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mt. Mariveles, Merrill 3689, January 1, 1904, 
on damp earth. 
Previously reported from North America, Europe, Algiers, Australia, 
and New Zealand. 
