CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Lycoperdon; 347 
Lyc. hydro'phorum. Wrapper entire, rusty red, protruding a pellucid 
colourless border. 
Sowerhy 23— -Bull. 410. 2. 
The size of a small pin's head, in clusters, sessile, somewhat woolly, rusty 
red; opening at the top, but not splitting into rays, and protruding a 
diaphanous globule. 
(Red Pin's-head Puff-ball. Sphceria Peziza. Pers. Hook. E.) Peziza 
hydrophora. Bull. On decayed wood. 
(2) With a stem. 
Lyc. equPnum. Plant brown white: stem solid, cylindrical: head 
globular, but rather hollowed underneath. 
( Sowerhy 292 — E. Bot. 373. E.)— Willd. 7. 20 — Dill. 14. 5— Bay JSyn. 
1. 3— Bolt. 178. but much larger than the other figures, or any specimens 
I have seen. 
Generally about a quarter of an inch high. Head from the size of hemp- 
seed to that of a large pin, globular but sometimes hollowed a little 
underneath, so as to resemble the pileus of a minute Agaric with the edge 
turned in. The edge is filled with a reddish brown mass of seeds and 
woolly fibres, but I could never perceive a tendency to any particular 
mode of opening, nor any appearance of it being cut round, as men¬ 
tioned by Willdenow. Dill. 14. 4. is a different plant. 
Lichen hyssoides. Linn. Huds. and With* Ed. 2. Lycoperdon gossypinum. 
Bolt. In Gmelin’s edition of Syst. Nat. it is given under the name of 
Lich. hyssoides , and again as Lycoperdon equinum. J. Wynne Griffith, 
Esq. who furnished specimens to Mr. Relhan, lately discovered it on the 
decayed hoof of a horse, several of which he sent to me, along with the 
following description. ff Substance leathery. Boot spreading horizon¬ 
tally under the laminae of the hoof or horn on which it grows. Stem solid, 
very stiff, slightly compressed, white, but sometimes buff-coloured near 
the root; from a quarter to one-third of an inch high. Head globular, 
compressed; surface cracked and mealy, bursting indiscriminately, and 
filled with a light brown powder. I never was satisfied that this plant 
was a Lichen, but I have now specimens which incontestibly prove it to 
be a Lycoperdon. 
(Horse’s-hoof Puff-ball. E.) Grows on the horns of cattle and sheep, 
but more frequently on the hoofs of horses which have been long exposed 
to, and softened by, the weather. Mr. Griffith. 
Lyc. peduncula'tum. Stem hollow, long; head globular: smooth, 
orifice cylindrical, very entire. 
Bull. 294— Batsch 167—( Sowerhy 406. E.)— Tourn. 331. E. F. 
Stem hollow, cylindrical, stiff, near an inch high, and thick as a swallow's 
quill. Head globular, a quarter to half an inch diameter, rather com¬ 
pressed, aperture small, oblong, surrounded with a tubular ring. Colour 
pale, ochrey. Batsch. 
(Long-stemmed Puff-ball. E.) Meadows and pastures. Common 
about London. Mr. Woodward. 
(Mr. Sowerby states its more natural situation to be amongst moss on walls, 
as the walls of Hyde Park : and on a wall near the half-way house to 
Greenwich. E.) Aug.—Oct. 
