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1291. Lycoperdon pyriforme. Schceff. Icon. t. 185. Sacc. 
Syll. vn., 359. Fries Syst. Myc. in., 29. 
Pyriform, membranaceous (1-3 in. high), rather umbonate, de- 
hiscing by a small, torn mouth, covered with minute, pointed 
warts, becoming smooth, root of numerous white, long, branching 
fibres, threads thicker than the spores, branched, continuous with 
the slightly cellular, sterile base, forming a columella; spores 
olive, smooth, globose, 4 p diam. 
On stumps or on the soil. Victoria. N.S.' Wales. Queensland. 
Tasmania. 
1292. Lycoperdon glabrescens. Berk. FI. Tasm. ii., 226. 
Sacc. SylL vn., 386. 
Subhemispherical (li in. diam.), mouth conical, plicate below, 
at first covered with slender, floccose spines, becoming glabrous ; 
stem short, stout, tinged violet within ; capillitium dense, con- 
tinuous with the cellular, sterile base, threads firm, about as thick 
as the spores, often nodulose, branching, axils rounded, tapering; 
spores dark cinnamon, tinged olive, smooth, globose, often pedi- 
cellate, 5-6 p diam. 
On the ground. Victoria. Tasmania. 
1293. Lycoperdon bovista. Linn. Sacc. Syll. vn., 324.= 
L. giganteum, Batsch. Elen. f. 165. 
Peridium subsphajroid, sessile (12-100 c.m. diam., or more), 
fragile above, breaking in patches, and at length evanescent, at 
first greyish-white, then yellowish-white, at length olive-grey ; 
cortex floccose, distinct, capillitium scarce, evanescent; spores 
sphasroid, even, olive, then brownish (4 p diam.). 
On the ground. Esculent. Queensland. 
1294. Lycoperdon Fontanesii. DR. Sc Lev. FI. Alg. 381, t. 
22. Sacc. Syll. vn., 344. 
Peridium globose or broadly ovate (from the size of an apple to 
that of a child’s head), passing into a narrow, strongly plicate base, 
whitish, becoming reddish ochre, thick and leathery, areolate or 
broken up into soft, elongated warts, fragile, and breaking away 
in patches above ; root stout, elongated; capillitium dense, threads 
thicker than the spores, rarely branched, soon separating from the 
dense minutely cellular, purple-brown, prominent sterile base ; 
spores ferruginous olive, globose, smooth, often pedicellate, 4 p 
diam. 
On the ground. N. Zealand. 
1295. Lycoperdon caelatum. Bull. Champ, t. 430. Sacc. 
Syll. vn., 352. Fr. Syst. Myc. hi., 32. 
Peridium sessile or stipitate (1-4 in. diameter), subglobose or 
depressed, cortex pale creamy ochre, very thin, minutely furfura- 
ceous, breaking away in areolae, inner coat thicker, smooth, ashy 
grey; capillitium oehraceous olive, threads frequently branched, 
axils rounded, thicker than the spires in the thickest parts, taper- 
