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sterile base well developed, slightly cellular, mar'ginate, be- 
coming almost free from the capillitium ; spores ochraceous- 
olive, globose, smooth, 4 11 diam. 
Ly coper don molle , Pers , Syn. 150. 
Ly coper don gemmatum, Berk., Eng. Flor. (in part). 
Lycoperdon molle , Sacc., Syll. vii, p. 107. 
Size of L. pyriforme , colour much darker, almost dilute 
olive, very soft to the touch, root none (Pers.). 
On the ground in oak woods. King’s Clifife ! — Europe ; 
United States. 
Lycoperdon cae latum, Bull. (Fig. 58). Subglobose or 
depressed, contracted below into a more or less elongated stem- 
like base, often furnished with a long tapering root ; peridium 
at first covered with rather large, distant, conical warts, disap- 
pearing above and leaving the peridium almost smooth, more 
persistent below, and becoming split from the base ; upper 
portion of peridium evanescent ; capillitium ochraceous olive, 
with a tinge of lilac, threads frequently branched, axils rounded, 
thicker than diameter of spores ; sterile base cellular, slightly 
convex, dense, at length free from the capillitium ; spores 
dirty olive, spherical, smooth, 5 \ u diam., frequently furnished 
with a hyaline pedicel, 2-3 times as long as diameter of spore. 
Lycoperdon caelatum , Bull., Champ, t. 430 ; Fr., Syst. 
Myc. iii, 32 ; Vitt., Mon. Lyc. 188 ; Berk., Outl. t. 20, f. 7 ; 
Berk., Eng. Flor. 303 ; Krombh., t. 30, f. 7-10; Harzer, t. 
lxxiv ; Schaeff., t. cxc ; Nees, Pilze, t. 10, f. 1 ; Hussey, ii, 
pi. 23; Cke., Hdbk. 1084; Barla, pi. 46, f. 4; Wint, Kr. FI. 
897; Mass., Mon. Lyc. n. 47 ; Sacc., Syll. vii, p. 115. 
Lycoperdon gemmatum, Schaeff., Ic. t. 189, f. 1-3. 
Lycoperdon bovista , Nees, Pilze, t. 11, f. 125. 
Boris ta officinarum , Sturm, t. 1. 
Utraria caelata , Quel., Champ. Jur. et Vosg. 360 ; 
Quel., Enchirid. 241. 
Generally distributed, but not common. Fields, woods, 
roadsides, etc. Batheaston ! Sydenham ! Kew ! Scarborough ! 
Carlisle ! Aboyne ! Aviemore, N. B. ! — Europe ; N. America ; 
