
          (86.)

Lycoperdon globosum Hist. 118.

smooth globular Puffball.

Lycoperdon bovista.

This Lycoperdon grows frequently
in Meadows and pastures about Halifax.

At its' first appearance it is of a
snow white colour and of a figure truly
sphaerical, emitting a few small radical
fibres,  the flesh is solid and of a pale pink
colour.  When a boy I have ofter eaten them
roasted under the embers and found them to
have all the flavour of the commone esculent
Mushroom,  In decay it turns brown, the
coat breaks in various lacerations at top, and
it becomes the common Blood stenching
Tufsball, or Puffball.
        