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1282. Bovista anomala. Cke. fy Mass. Grev. xvm ., p. 6. 
Subglobose (1-1^ c.m. diatn.), depressed, cortex thin, fragile, 
more or less persistent and regularly cup-shaped at the base, 
whitish, peridium thick, coriaceous, delicately velvety, dingy ochre, 
with a cylindrical, rather prominent ostiolnm, somewhat silky, 
seated upon an orbicular, depressed disc ; flocci hyaline, nodnlose, 
3-4 p thick ; spores globose, warted, very shortly pedicellate, 
olive, 4-5 p diam. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
1283. Bovista olivacea. Cke. <)• Mass. Journ. Bot. xxvi., 
133. 
Globose, 1 £-2 in. diam., with a short, stout, rooting base, 
cortex very thin and evanescent, peridium thick, at first soft and 
pliant like leather, becoming brittle and breaking away in patches, 
pale ochraceous, at length whitish, mass of spores, and very dense 
capillitium, bright citrine, then olive, threads thin, flaccid, simple, 
spores globose, smooth, pale yellow, sometimes pedicellate, 5 fx diam. 
On the ground. Victoria. (Fig. 118.) 
1284. Bovista cervina. Berk. Fang. Darw. 447. Sacc. SylL 
vii., 291. 
Small, globose ( 1 -2-J- c.m.), peridium membranaceous, pallid 
fawn coloured, cortex rather rigid; mouth minute and rounded; 
capillitium and spores of the same colour. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
Genus 25. LYCOPERDON. Toum. Inst. p. 563. 
Peridium membranaceous, single, the snbpersistent cortex be- 
coming broken up into warts or spines, dehiscing by a small apical 
mouth, or the whole of the upper part evanescent; capillitium 
dense, springing from the more or less developed sterile basal 
stratum ; spores globose or elliptic, externally rough or smooth. 
a. Sterile basal stratum well developed, cellular or compact. 
I. Spores globose, rough, purple lilac or brown. 
1285. Iiycoperdon lilacinum. Berk. Massee Trans. R. M. S. 
Sacc. SylL vn., 4()3.=Bovista lilacina, Berk. 
Broadly obovate or turbinate (2-4 in. high, 2-3 in. broad), con- 
tracted below into a stout, cellular, stem-like base ; peridium thin 
and evanescent above, dehiscing by a large irregular opening,, 
cortex white, polished, breaking away in papery patches, threads 
thinner than the diameter of the spores, flaccid, simple, continuous 
with the convex, cellular, sterile, basal stratum ; spores violet, 
with a tinge of ochre, echinulate, globose, 0 p diam. 
On the ground. W. Australia. Victoria. Tasmania. N.S. Wales. 
Queensland. 
1286. Lycoperdon violascens. Cooke Mass. Trans. R. M. 
S. t. xiii.,/. 21-23. Sacc. Syll. vn., No. 1607. 
Globose, about in. across, sessile, sometimes rather plicate 
below, and terminating in a short, slender root ; peridium papy- 
