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Scleroderma vulgare , Fries, Syst. Myc. iii, p. 46 ; FI. 
Dan. t. 1969, f. 2 : Berk., Eng. FI. v, p. 305 ; Berk., Outl. 
p. 303, pi. xv, f. 4 (with Boletus parasiticus growing upon it) ; 
Cooke, Hdbk. n. 1090, fig. 116 ; Hussey, i, t. xvii, f. 1 ; Wint., 
Kr. FI. p. 888 ; Sacc., Syll. vii, p. 134. 
Ly coper don cervinum , Bolt., Fung. t. 116. 
Lycoperdon aurantiaaim , Bull., p. 158, t. 270 ; Sow., 
£. 268. 
Exs. — Oudemans, Fung. Neerl. 245 ; Syd., Myc. March. 
107 ; Roum., Fung. Gal. 715 ; Rab., Fung. Eur. 243 ; Cooke, 
Fung. Brit. 417 ; Sacc., Myc. Ven. 1412 ; Fuckel, Fung. Rhen. 
1253 an ^ 2483 ; Thum., Fung. Austr. 334; Herbarium Mac- 
Owaniamum 1454, under name of Melanogaster Owanianum> 
Kalchb. 
In open places under trees, etc. Common. New Forest ! 
Kew! Hereford 1 Lincoln! Scarborough! Carlisle! Guernsey! 
— United States; Madeira; S. Africa ; S. Australia; Tas- 
mania ; New Zealand ; Perak ; Nova Zembla. 
From 1 to 3 inches diameter, usually depressed, so 
that a section of the gleba is more or less reniform ; gleba 
blackish with purple tinge, and just before maturity marbled 
with white lines corresponding to the trama ; peridium ex- 
ternally variable, usually pale with yellow shades, sometimes 
bright brown, in some specimens covered with large squarrose 
scales, in others, adnate warts, which in the brown form are 
often very minute. The sporophores usually originate from a 
dense mass of cord-like mycelium, which persists as a rooting 
base. 
Scleroderma verrucosum, Pers. (Fig. 47). Peridium sub- 
globose, thin and fragile above, covered with minute warts, 
continued below into a more or less elongated stem-like base ; 
mass of spores umber, lines of trama whitish ; spores globose, 
warted, 10-13 [i diam. 
Scleroderma verrucosum , Pers., Syn. p. 154 ; Grev., 
Scot. Cr. FI. t. 48 ; Hussey, t. 17, f. 2 ; Berk., Outl. p. 303 ; 
Berk., Eng. FI. p. 306; Cke., Hdbk. n. 1092; Quel., Enchirid. 
p. 243 ; Wint., Kr. FI. p. 889 ; Sacc. Syll. vii, p. 130. 
