Specimens in our Collection. 
Type specimen from A. P. Morgan. It has never reached me otherwise save 
some very young specimens which I doubtfully refer to this plant, sent by H. Page, 
Massachusetts. 
207—BOVISTA TOMENTOSA. 
(Plate 4.) 
My knowledge of this plant is confined to a single pressed speci¬ 
men received from Bresadola. This specimen is about the size of 
plumbea, but has a dull surface. Capillitium threads as shown are 
relatively short and thick. Spores much smaller than plumbea, 4-5 
me. with pedicels 8-10 me. long. 
Specimens in our Collection. 
Tirol , Rev. G. Bresadola. 
SYNONYMS AND HISTORY. 
It was described by Vittadini as Lycoperdon tomentosum and is badly 
named for it is really not “tomentose.” It has been called also Globaria tomen- 
tosa. It occurs in the warmer portion of Europe. 
208—BOVISTA LATERITIA. 
(Plate 4.) 
When Massee (1888) worked up the Bovistas he found in Berke¬ 
ley’s herbarium a specimen labeled “Bovista lateritia” sent by Mon¬ 
tague. Locality not known. We have received from Prof. T. H. 
Macbride a half specimen so labeled, collected by Sanderson in Mexico. 
It seems to us to answer the description. The cortex is gone, and the 
peridium which is very thin, is brick red, (the name means brick color.) 
Spore mass compact, rust-color. Capillitium of long slender branching 
threads, at first sight seeming to be of the Lycoperdon type. They 
are however, separate threads, but so long, slender, and interwoven 
that they cannot be floated out singly as can the threads of most spe¬ 
cies of Bovista. Spores globose, warted, 5-7 me. 
209—BOVISTA ASPERA. 
(Plate 4.) 
We have received from W. Jekyll, Jamaica, little specimens 
which Prof. Patouillard refers to Bovista aspera. 
In Saccardo this plant is given as a Lycoperdon on authority of 
Spegazzini (where? not Fungi Guaranitica) but evidently referring to 
.some other plant as spore description does not agree at all. Our speci¬ 
mens are true Bovistas, though the cortex has little spiny nodules as a 
Lycoperdon. There is no sterile base. Capillitium of separate threads 
with slender branches. Spores globose, smooth, 5 me. with pedicels 
10 me. long. Several species in our collection appear to dehisce by 
several mouths (see plate 4, fig. 8) but whether this is normal or 
due to work of insects we do not know. 
Specimens in our Collection. 
Jamaica, W. Jekyll. 
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