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completely. ‘The inner layer of the peridium white, then of a delicat 
fresh colour and finally greyish, furfuraceous and furnished with id 
thin and short spines. Gleba white, then fulvous, and finally ash 
coloured. Sterile basal stratum white. Spores warted, globose 4-5 
yellow, threads of the capillitium 3-4 thick. 
Amongst leaves, Aldenham, Salop, 25th Oct., 1902. Mr. Carleton 
Rea. Distinguished from all the other British Lycoperdons by the 
outer layer of the peridium being as 1t were a universal veil, and by 
the delicate maiden’s blush colour of the inner layer of the peridium 
when fresh. 
Published 2nd March, 1903. 
