British Gastromycetes. 7 5 
Behrings Straits ; Falkland Islands ; Cuba ; Neelgheries 
Darzeeling; Tasmania; New Zealand ; Australia; Algeria. 
Very variable in form, peridium globose, or more frequently 
spherico-depressed, 1-4 in. across, stem-like base stout, variable 
in length, and often attenuated downwards, sometimes almost 
obsolete. 
Lycoperdon bovista, Linn. (Fig. 76). Peridium globose or 
depressed, often more or less plicate at the base, sessile ; cortex 
thick, at first subtomentose, becoming smooth, fragile, and 
evanescent above, leaving a wide opening. Capillitium com- 
pact, continuous with the sterile cellular base ; spores bright 
yellow, becoming dusky olive, globose, smooth, rather variable 
in size, 4-6 /jl diam., sometimes pedicellate. 
Lycoperdon bovista , Linn., Sp. PI. 1653; Vitt., Mon. 
Lyc. 1 81 ; Fr., Syst. Myc. iii, 29 ; Karst., Myc. Fenn. iii, 360 ; 
Fr., Sverig. Svamp. lxxii ; Bull., 447 ; Wint., Kr. FI. 899 ; 
Mass., Lyc. n. 45 ; Sacc., Syll. vii, p. 109. 
Lycoperdon giganteum , FI. Dan. MDCCCXX ; Hussey, i, 
pi. 26 ; Pabst, Crypt. Flor. t. 23 ; Cke., Hdbk. n. 1083 ; Berk., 
Eng. Flor. 303 ; Batsch, Elench. 238, t. 39, f. 165 ; Sow., t. 332, 
upper fig. ; Corda, Ic. Fung, v, f. 40. 
Lycoperdon maximum , Schaeff., Ic. 191. 
Bovista gig ante a, Nees, Pilze, t. xi, f. 124, C; Grev., 
Scot. Cr. FI. t. 336. 
Langermannia gigantea, Sturm, t. 10. 
Globidaria gigantea , Quel., Champ. Jur. et Vosg. 362 ; 
Quel., Enchirid. 239. 
Exs. — Flora Exs. Aust.-Hung. 1156; Karst, Fung. Fenn. 
374 - 
Grassy places. Summer and autumn. East Bergholt 1 
Peckham ! Castle Howard, Yorks. ! Scarborough! Carlisle! 
— Europe ; N. America. 
Grows to a large size, sometimes a foot or more in diameter. 
Lycoperdon Cookei, Mass. (Fig. 26). Hemispherical and 
flattened below or globose, abruptly contracted into a short, 
