
          (173.)

Lycoperdon epidendrum. Hist. 119. f. 1.
Red Puffball. old, the red Epidermis vanished.

Lyc. profilio.

This spirting [spurting] puffball I found
growing on heaps of wet decay'd [decayed] Moss
in Bracken bed wood August the fifth.

The largest on being gently
touched spirted [spurted] out a white powder from
small pores in different parts of the
skin, -- when it was brought home &
begun to dry the coat or skin broke
in the top and now remains full of a
greyish dust-like matter.
        