British Gusirotnycet.es - 65 
thick-walled; olive ; spores globose, smooth, pale,, pedicellate, 
5-6 p, diameter. 
Bovista ammophila. Lev,, Ann.Sci. Nat. ser. 3, ix, p. 129, 
pi. 9, f. 5 ; B. and Br., Ann. Nat. Hist. n. 1033 ; Cooke, 
Hdbk. p. 372! ; Mass., Revis. Bovist. n. 20 ; Sacc., Syll. vii, p. 
98. (Specimen determined by Rev. M. J. Berkeley, in Herb. 
Berk. n. 4594-) 
On the ground in sandy places. Cefu Meinadoch, Denbigh- 
shire ! — France. 
From x-ij in. high. 
Bovista cepaeforme (Bull.), Mass. (Fig. 72). Sessile, 
subglobose, peridium papyraceous, cortex white, minutely 
furfuraceous, breaking away in patches, dehiscing by a minute, 
torn mouth ; root long, cord-like. Threads of capillitium 
much branched, axils rounded, spores bright citrin, smooth, 
globose, often with a short, thick pedicel, 4 \i diameter. 
Lycoperdon cepaeforme , Bull., t. 403, f. 2 (upper row) ; 
Wint, Cr. FI. p. 902 ; Mass., Mon. Lyc. n. 100. 
Lycoperdon pratense , Pers., Syn. Fung. 143. 
Lycoperdon pusillum , Berk., Engl. Flor. v, p. 304 (in 
part). 
Globularia furfur acea, Quel., Champ. Jur. et Vosg. 
361 ; Quel., Enchirid. 241. 
England ! — France, 
Vittadini’s figure of L. plumbeum, t. 33, f. 1, Fung. Mang., 
very much resembles Bulliard’s figure, but in the former the 
spores are said to be ‘ fusco-purpurea.’ About 1 in. across. 
Bovista pusilla (Fr.), De Toni (Fig. 59). Peridium sub- 
globose, sometimes slightly attenuated at the base, flaccid, 
persistent, with minute adpressed scurfy squamules, becoming 
smooth, dehiscing by a minute irregular apical pore, pale 
olivaceous ochre, furnished with a long, slender, tapering root, 
capillitium dense, threads much branched, axils rounded, 
lax, flexuous ; spores olivaceous-ochre, globose, smooth, 
about 4 ju diam. 
Lycoperdon pusillum , Fries, Syst. Myc. iii, 33 ; Berk., 
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