34 6 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Lycoperdon. 
Lyc. phalloi'des. Head bell-shaped, powdery: stem ragged, woolly. 
Phil. Trans, lxxiv. 16. 
Moots few, thin, whitish. Wrapper egg-shaped, double, with mucilage be¬ 
tween the coats. Stem issuing from the inner coat of the wrapper, rather 
woody, hollow, brownish, its surface ragged. Pileus bell-shaped, smooth, 
covered on its upper surface with a thick layer of powdery matter, and 
bearing on its apex a cap formed by a part of the lacerated wrapper. 
Powder spherical, semi-pellucid, yellow brown. Egg about the size of a 
small hen’s egg, and lies buried in sandy banks at the depth of six or eight 
inches. Stem from seven to twelve inches long, though not more than 
two or three inches appear above the surface. Pileus an inch or more 
from the edge to the apex, and nearly as much in diameter at its base. 
Phil. Trans, v. 74. p. 423. This very singular plant was first discovered 
by Mr. Humphreys, and afterwards its progress carefully watched by 
Mr. Stone and Mr. Woodward. In Phil. Trans, it is referred to the 
genus Lycoperdon, and Dickson has introduced it in his Fasc. Plant. 
Cryptog. p. 24, under the name of L. phalloides. Its habit, and the 
mucilaginous matter between the coats of the wrapper had induced me to 
rank it as a Phallus; but in truth it is neither a Phallus nor a Lyco¬ 
perdon, but a sort of connecting link between the two, and must probably 
form a new genus. Its wrapper is said to be threefold, and continues 
rooted in the ground, but the stem , as it rises up, carries up almost the 
whole of the internal powdery wrapper attached to its top, as also some 
portions of the two outer ones torn away from their bases in the same 
manner. Smith’s Spiceleg. p. 12. 
(Phalloid Lycoperdon. E.) Sand-banks near Norwich and Bungay. 
Mr. Humphreys, and Mr. Woodward in Dicks. Earsham and Kirby, 
Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. Aug. 
Lyc. carpo'bolus. Wrapper many-cleft ; fruit globular, composed of 
seeds united together. 
(Globose, yellow, becoming paler, the orifice regular, cleft into segments in 
a stellate manner. Grev. E.) 
( Grev. Scot. Crypt. 158— Purt. t. 30. E.)— Sowerhy 22— Abbot. FI. Med. p. 
336. E.)— FI. Dan. 89 b—Mich. 101. 1. 2. 
Whitish, of the size of a large pin’s head, opening into an expanding border 
with five, six, or seven clefts. From the disc an oval vesicle as tall as 
the disc leaps up, exploding its contents with an elastic spring. Forskahl 
in Linn. (Vesicle white, seeds brown. When young, entirely enveloped 
in an evanescent cotton-like substance. <( Unquestionably the most won¬ 
derfully constructed plant which it has fallen to my lot to describe in the 
present publication,” says Dr. Greville in his Scot. Crypt. “ At the time 
of the dehiscence of the outer peridium, the inner one (at this time con¬ 
cave, with its mouth uppermost) with an inconceivable rapidity and 
force turns itself inside out; and projects the ball of sporidia to the dis¬ 
tance of several inches. So great is the force with which the process is 
effected, that, besides projecting the ball, the inner peridium itself, some¬ 
what resembling a balloon in miniature, is often disengaged from the outer 
one, instead of remaining as usual with its orifice (now undermost), at¬ 
tached to the margin of the outer one.” E.) 
(Projectile Puff-ball. L. carpobolus. Linn. Sowerby. Huds. Ctar- 
pobolus. Mich. Sphcerobolus stellaius. Pers. Grev. Purt. E.) On de*? 
cayed sawdust. Brown in Dill. Muse. 55. On decayed wood in woods 
and hedges. Huds. At Packington, Warwickshire. Aug.—Oct. 
