British Gastromyceles. 69 
t. 2, f .6: ‘Science Gossip/ Dec. 1886 ; Cke., Hdbk. n. 1085 ; 
Mass., Mon. Lyc. n. 7 ; Sacc., Syll. vii, pp. 123 and 477. 
Lycoperdon quercinum , Pers., Syn. 147-8. 
Lycoperdon esculentum , etc., Mich., Gen. t. 97, f. 4. 
Utraria atropurpurea , Quel, Enchirid. 242. 
In oak woods, etc. Batheaston ! Bristol ! Deer Leap, Abinger, 
Surrey! Castle Howard, Yorks.! — Europe; U. States. 
Distinguished from small forms of L. echinatum by the 
slender spines, larger spores, and dark-brown cellular base, 
and from L.gemmatum by the warted spores. Size variable, 
from i-2i in. across. 
Lycoperdon exeipuliforme, Scop. (Fig. 64). Peridium 
subglobose or depressed, passing into a stout stem, at first 
with slender spinose warts, which partly disappear, leaving the 
surface tomentose ; stem rather plicate at the base. Threads 
of capillitium flexuous, rarely branched, continuous with the 
sterile cellular base ; spores globose, dirty olive, minutely 
warted, 4-5 \ u diam. 
Lycoperdon exeipuliforme , Vitt, Mon. Lyc. 193 ; 
Schaefif., Ic. t. 187; Bull., t. 450 and t. 475?; Paulet, p. 
121, t. cci, f.‘6 ; Karst., Myc. Fenn. p. 362; Nees, Pilze, t. 11, 
f. 126 ; Fr., Sverig. Svamp. pi. lxxiii; Pers., Syn. 143 ; Pabst, 
Crypt. FI. t. 23 ; Mass., Mon. Lyc. n. 22 ; Sacc., Syll. vii, pp. 
108 and 478. 
Lycoperdon gemmatum , Berk., Eng. FI. p. 304 (in part). 
Lycoperdon gemmatum, y exeipuliforme , Fr., Syst. Myc. 
iii, p. 37 ; Wint., Kr. FI. 904. 
Utraria exeipuliforme , Quel., Champ. Jur. et Vosg. 
360 ; Quel., Enchirid. 241. 
In woods and meadows. Carlisle ! — Europe. 
Variable in size, from 1-4 in. high. Often closely re- 
sembling L. saccatum in external appearance, but distin- 
guished by the flexuous threads of the capillitium and the 
smaller and less coarsely warted spores. 
Lycoperdon saccatum, Vahl (Fig. 60). Stipitate ; peridium 
spherico-depressed, obtuse, plicate below ; above with small 
