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spinulose warts, which become smaller and fibrillose below 
and on the stem, dehiscing by a small irregular apical aper- 
ture ; stem stout, more or less elongated, nearly equal, often 
more or less lacunose, pale and cellular within. Capillitium 
compact, persistent, threads branched, axils not rounded, 
thinner than diameter of spores ; sterile basal portion well 
developed, convex, cellular ; spores olivaceous-umber, strongly 
echinulate, spherical, about 6 diam. 
Lycoperdon saccatnm , Vahl, FI. Dan. t. 1139 ; Fr., Syst. 
Myc. iii, 35 ; Berk., Outl. p. 303; Price, pi. 3, f. 14; Hussey, 
i, pi. 26; ‘Science Gossip/ Dec. 1866, f. 251 ; Cke., Hdbk. 
n. 1087 ; Krombh., t. 30, f. 11-12; Mass., Mon. Lyc. n. 21 ; 
Wint., Kr. FI. 901 ; Sacc., Syll. vii, pp. 128 and 477. 
Utraria saccata , Quel., Champ. Jur. et Vosg. 461 ; 
Quel., Enchirid. 241. 
Exs.— Cooke, Fung. Brit. n. 214. 
In thickets and open woods, amongst moss. Bristol ! 
Laxton! Kew! Highgate ! Scarborough! Carlisle! Bod- 
ryddan, Flintshire ! Forres, N. B. ! — Europe ; N. America ; 
South Africa ; S. Australia. 
Peridium thin, becoming smooth, 1-2 in. across, usually 
plicate below, but not invariably so ; stem 2-3 in. long, 1 in. 
thick, the whole plant sometimes much larger. Often supei> 
ficially resembling L . perlatum , but readily distinguished by 
the obtuse peridium and echinulate spores. Some forms 
closely resemble externally L. gemmatum , but are distin- 
guished by the strongly echinulate spores. 
Lycoperdon gemmatum, Batsch (Fig. 30). Stipitate ; peri- 
dium subglobose, depressed above, or lens-shaped, obtuse, 
with prominent sharp-pointed brown spinose warts of various 
sizes, which fall away leaving the surface smooth and shining, 
dehiscing by a small aperture at the apex ; stem-like base 
stout, tapering downwards. Capillitium continuous with the 
prominent cellular sterile base, threads lax, rarely branching, 
axils acute, tapering ; spores olivaceous-umber, globose, mi- 
nutely verruculose, 4 \i diam. 
