TURRET PUFF-BALL 
Generic Character. 
Roundifh Fungus, opening at the top, filled with 
extremely minute feeds in form of a fine 
powder. 
Specific Character , &c. 
LYCOPERDON (Puff-Ball) with quadrifidcap, 
fmooth head, and obtufe ciliated opening. 
TURRET PUFF-BALL. 
Withering Bot. Arr. 2 . p. 783. 
Temple PUFF-BALL. 
The particular divifion of the clafs Cryptogamia 
known by the title of Fungi, confifts of fuch a pro¬ 
digious number of fpecies as almoft to defy the in- 
veftigation of the moft zealous botanift ; while the 
varieties to which many of them are occafionally fub- 
jed, are fuch as to involve in the moft perplexing 
uncertainty the enquiries of botanical ftudents, who, 
unlefs aflifted by almoft every author who has either 
figured or defcribed them, are too often obliged to 
relinquifti all hope of determining the particular 
fpecies they may happen to have difcovered. Some 
however are fo regular in their growth, fo finking 
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