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Mas see, — -A Monograph of 
Syst. Myc. iii, p. 24; Berk., Engl. Flor. v, p. 302; Berk., 
Outl. p. 301, pi. 20, f. 6; Cke., Hdbk. p. 372 ; Karst., Myc. 
Fenn. (Basid.) p. 360 ; Corda, Ic. Fung, v, f. 47 ; Mich., t. 97, 
f. 6 ; Mass., Revis. Gen. Bovista, n. 16 ; Sacc., Syll. vii, p. 9 6 ; 
Wint., Kr. FI. 907. 
Lycoperdon ardosiacnm , Bull., t. 192, A, B; With., 
iv, p. 351 - 
Lycoperdon plumbeum , Vitt., Mon. Lyc. p. 174. 
Globaria plumbea , Quel., Enchirid. 240. 
Exs.™ Klotzsch, Fung. Germ 57 ; Oudem., Fung. Neerl. 
117 ; Kx.,Rech. FI. Crypt. Fland. 1261 ; Fuckel, Fung. Rhen. 
1262; Klotzsclp Herb. Myc. 143. 
Dry grassy and heathy places. 
Too closely allied to B.nigrescens, the main distinctive features 
being the usually smaller size, and absence of a purple tinge 
in the mass of spores and capillitium. About 1 in. across. 
Bovista olivaeea, Cke. and Mass. (Fig. 67). Globose, 
cortex very thin and fugacious, peridium thick, soft, becoming 
brittle and breaking away in patches, white or ochraceous ; 
mass of spores and dense capillitium citron, then olive ; 
threads thin, pale, flaccid, mostly simple ; spores globose, 
smooth, pale yellow, sometimes pedicellate, 5 ju, diameter. 
Bovista olivaeea , Cke. and Mass., Grev. xvi, p. 77 ; 
Mass., Revis. Gen. Bovista, n. 17. (Type in Herb. Kew.) 
On the ground. Durdham Down, near Bristol ! — Winmera, 
Victoria. 
Peridium iJ-2 in. across, cortex thin, evanescent, peridium 
thick, at first soft and pliant like chamois leather, becoming 
dry and brittle and breaking away in patches upwards. 
Externally resembling small forms of Lycoperdon bovista , L., 
but there is no trace of a sterile basal stratum. 
Bovista ammophila, Lev. (Fig. 40). Broadly obovate, 
plicate below and passing into a long, stout, tapering root ; 
cortex whitish, broken up into tomentose warts, peridium 
thin, pallid, dehiscing by a small, irregularly torn apical 
mouth ; mass of spores and capillitium olive ; threads branched, 
