344 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Lycoperdon 
represented by Mich. t. 100. f. 5, and peels off, and then the stem 
appears. It may be from this cause, that some authors have described 
the head as sessile, and others as supported on a stem, and it is therefore 
very difficult to ascertain whether they speak of this plant, or of L. 
recolligens. Head nearly globular ; the orifice surrounded with a fringe 
converging into a cone. The whole plant generally of a dirty white, but 
the head has sometimes a greyish tinge. Woodward. Orifice often 
smooth when first open, but in time splits into teeth. Mr. Robson. Head 
about one inch diameter, bluish brown. Wrapper brown within, ^but 
bright silvery white on the outside. When kept under a glass, in a moist 
state, it gives out the cadaverous smell of the Phallus foetidus , but in a 
lesser degree. 
(Stellated Puff-ball. L. stellatum. Linn. Huds. Bolt. Sowerby. Purt. E.) 
Hedge banks, pastures. Hedge bank in a field called Little Marsh Croft, 
by the side of the road from Blimhill to Brineton. Mr. Dickenson. By 
the side of the turn-pike road from Coventry to Birmingham, near Stone 
Bridge. In Edgbaston park. Sept. Oct. April. 
Var. 2. Head flatted: orifice long, taper: teeth longer. 
(Hook. FI* Lond. E.)— Bryant. Lyc.J'. 19. the head only , hut well expressed . 
This, which is found on dry banks, usually amongst ivy, is different, from 
being smaller, and having the head flat at top, and the aperture extremely 
conical. It is almost black when dry, and the rays usually turn up at 
the point, but do not rise so as to cover the head in the manner of L. re - 
colligens. Mr. Woodward. 
( Geastrum striatum. Hook. Said to have been found only on the sandy 
Denes near Yarmouth. E.) 
Lyc. fornica'tum. (Huds.) Wrapper double; four-cleft, (some¬ 
times five or six cleft. E.) ; arched: head smooth; orifice blunt, 
fringed: stem short. 
(Hook. FI. Lond—Sowerby 198. E.)— Schaeff. 183— Phil. Trans . Ahr. x. 20. 
p. 107 ; Blackst. at p. 24. outer coat too smooth — Batsch 168— Bryant 
Lyc . 15 and c 20—BattarS9.f. 4. 
The double wrapper adhering by the points, which is never seen in any of 
the varieties of L. stellatum, is a distinctive mark, for the outer wrapper 
remains sunk in the ground, not being reversed and thrown out as in L. 
stellatum, &c. Mr. Woodward. Wrapper one inch and a half in diameter, 
rough and ash-coloured on the outside, smooth and whitish within. 
Inner coat whitish within, reddish yellow without. Head oblate sphe¬ 
roidal, brown, six-eighths of an inch in diameter. Stem hardly a quarter 
of an inch in height. Watson in Phil. Trans. 
This plant, in its expanded state, has a very singular and fanciful appear¬ 
ance. The outer coat or wrapper remains in the ground, whilst the 
inner separating from it is raised up and bears the head upon its most 
elevated part, the points of its segments remaining united with those of 
the outer wrapper, so that it is a globe supported upon four arched rays, 
the four points of the arches resting upon the four points of the outer 
wrapper which form an inverted arch. See a dissertation on the Stel¬ 
lated Lycoperdons by Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Esq. in Linn. Tr. 
v. ii. 
(Arched Puff-ball. L. fornicatum. Huds. Sowerby. Purt. L. fenes- 
tratum. Batsch. L. coronatum . Schseff. Geastrum quadrifidwn. Pers. 
G.fornicatum* Hook. E.) 
