CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Lycoperdon. 349 
Bull. 447—( Sowerby 332. E.)— Schcejf. 191— Clus. ii. 288— Dod. 484 : — Park. 
1323. 32— Sterb. 28. C. E. 
Sometimes twelve or fifteen inches in diameter. 
Frog-cheese. Puck-fist. (Scotch. Blind-man s Ball. L. giganteum. Pers. 
Hook. E.) L. Bovista d. Huds. L. Bovista. 1. Lightf. Pastures, and 
road sides amongst grass. Aug. 
Var. 2. Onion-shaped. Globular, but flatted. 
Bull. 435. 2— Schaff. 184— Mich. 97, 3 and 4— Gled. 5. 5— Bolt. 117. c, d, e. 
Sometimes pointed at the top, at others a little tapering at the bottom. 
Surface smooth, or scurfy, or cracked; occasionally almost prickly at the 
top. From three quarters to one inch and a quarter diameter. Root, 
a small bundle of black fibres. 
L. Bovista. 5. Lightf. Very common. 
Var. 3. Egg-shaped. Shaped like an egg, the small end downwards. 
Bull. 435./. 3; and 475. 
Often grows in clusters. Sometimes the lower part tapers so much as to 
form a kind of stem; its surface is smooth, or granulated, or scurfy. 
About the size of a pigeon’s egg. Bulliard. 
On old turf, common. 
Var. 4. Pear-shaped. Running insensibly into the other varieties. 
bull. 32 and 475. B , D, M.—Schaef. 185. 189— Bolt. 117. d. — Mich. 97. 5— 
Tourn. 331. A. B. — J. B. iii. 848. 2— Gars. 279. 3— Sterb. 29. F. 
One to two inches or more in diameter. Tapering at the base, sometimes 
so as to give a stem-like appearance. Surface smooth, or granulated, or 
rough as if prickly. Substance within grey, changing to brown. Bulliard. 
In clusters. About one inch and a quarter high, and three quarters dia¬ 
meter. Pear-shaped, puckered towards the root, not filled with dust, 
therefore easily compressible. Brown on the outside, thick set and rough 
with rising dark brown prominences, on a ground of a lighter brown. 
Inside covered with a soft woolly substance, amongst which the dust is 
lodged. A receptacle, or more solid tuft of the same woolly substance 
also rises up in the middle from the root. Such is the description of the 
smaller specimens ; the larger ones are shaped like the head of a knobbed 
walking-stick; varying greatly in size, from one to two inches high, 
and from half to one inch and a half in diameter; bursting at the 
top. Colour white. Surface studded with rising papillae, of different 
heights, some blunt, others pointed, and black at the points. Studs on the 
stem part much fewer than on the globular part. Inside white when 
young, greenish grey when older. The bulbous part more solid, the stem 
more cellular. 
L. Bovista y £ Huds. L. Bovista. 2. Lightf. Pastures, Edgbaston. 
Aug.—Oct. 
(Nearly allied to this is another sort which I have observed in old pasture 
land in the month of May, after much rain. It is perfectly stemless, 
but rather puckered towards the root; three inches high, and as much in 
diameter at the top, which is flatted and set with pointed papillae radiated 
at the base. There is a small hollow within just above the base. The 
shape is exactly that of Bull. 450,/. 1, but he describes his as being 
smooth. E.) 
