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IV. Spores globose , smooth, olive or yellow. 
1299. Lycoperdon stellatum. Che. <|- Mass. Trans. R. M. S., 
t. xii., f. 10-12. Sacc. Syll. vn., 333. 
Sessile, subglobose (1^ in. across), peridium thin, flaccid, at first 
covered with stout, stellate, spinose warts, which break away in 
patches, leaving a smooth surface, mouth minute, torn ; threads 
firm, rarely branched, equal to spores in thickness, continuous 
with scanty, floccose, sterile base ; spores dirty olive, smooth, 
globose, 5 p diam. 
On the ground. W. Australia. 
1300. Lycoperdon substellatuni. Berk, in Mass. Mon. p. 20. 
Sacc. Syll. vn., 1621. 
Globose, sessile, whitish in. diam.), covered with delicate 
fiocculose spines, which become smaller downwards ; threads of 
capillitium collapsing, simple ; sterile base obsolete ; spores 
ochraceous, globose, smooth (3 p diam.). 
On rotten wood, etc. Queensland. 
1301. Lycoperdon coprophilum. Che. cj- M ass. in Grev. 
Globose, sessile (^-1 in. across), whitish, covered with delicate 
persistent spines, becoming smaller downwards ; threads of 
capillitium very dense, once, twice, or three times dichotomous, 
gradually attenuated to the ends, thicker than the spores ; sterile 
base obsolete, internal mass olive ; spores globose, smooth, shortly 
stipitate, 4 p diam. ; mycelium branched, cord-like, white. 
On dung. Queensland. 
1302. Lycoperdon microspermuin. Berk. Hook. Journ. vi., 
172. Sacc. Syll. vn., 327. 
Subglobose (^-1 in. across), obtuse, rooting, wholly flaccid, 
persistent, dehiscing by a minute round mouth, at first rufous- 
brown, indistinctly cracked, rough with acute scales, paler, 
smooth above ; sterile base small, capillitium uniform ; columella 
obsolete ; spores very minute, globose, olive, even, rarely pedi- 
cellate. 
On the ground. New Zealand. 
1303. Lycoperdon dermoxanthum. Vitt. Mon 178. 
=Bovista, Sacc. Syll. vn., 296. 
Peridium very thin and flaccid (i-li in. diam.), persistent, 
sessile, irregularly globose, base more or less plicate, root rather 
long, slender ; minutely f'urfuraceous, dehiscing by a minute open- 
ing, bright yellow, becoming brownish ; threads of capillitium very 
slender, lax; sterile portion obsolete; spores ochraceons-olive, 
globose, smooth (3-4 p). 
In grassy places. Victoria. 
1304. Lycoperdon reticnlatum. Berk. Mass, Trans. R: M. S. 
iSacc. Syll. vii., 830 . 
Peridium globose, or broadly obovate (about f in. diam.), with 
slightly raised reticulations, which eventually disappear, leaving a 
