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582 227.Sclerod. 9. GASTEROMYCEiE. Pl.cell.aph.
Scleroderma spadiceum, Persoon Syn. 155,
Lycoperdon spadiceum, Dickson Crypt. 1,25.
On the ground at the roots of trees.
4. Scleroderma cepoides.
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Onionlike skin-litter.
Sporangia roundish, depressed, rather smooth, shining
stemlike basis short, thickest at bottom, scarcely fibrous.
Lycoperdon cepae facie, Vaillant Bet. Par. 123.
Tuber solidum, Withering Bot. Arr. 4,407.
Scleroderma Cepa, Persoon Syn. 155, 10.
In woods under oak-trees ; August.
XXVII. 228. HYPOGiEUM. Persoon. H7jpogeum.
Sporangia globular, rootless; peridia double, the outer
adnate, warty, cracked ; sporidia in heaps, among the flocci.
—Grows under ground.
HypogcBum cervinum. ^^^g hypogeum.
peridium. granulated.
Sporangium round or oblong ;
Lycoperdon cervinum, Lin. S. P. 1653; Sowerby Fungi, 269.
Lycoperdastrum tuberosum, athizon fulvum, cortice duriore crasso el
granulate, medulla ex albo purpurascente, semine nigro crassiore, Micheti
N. Gen. 220.
Hypogaeum cerviuum, Persoon Dispos. 7.
Scleroderma cervinum, Fersoon Syn. 156.
Under ground, near fir-trees. Perhaps a tuber.
XXVIII. 229. BOVISTA. Dillenius. Bitll-fst.
Sporangium globular, generally sessile, bottom rooted;
outer peridium, adnate to the inner, separating into lobes,
tip bursting irregularly, vanishing; sporidia pedicelled on
the flocci, brownish-purple.— Grows on the ground, sometimes
half-sunk in it.
1. Bovista plumlea. Lead-colour hull-Jist.
Sporangium globular, umbilicated beneath, rooting, leadcolour.
Lycoperdon ardesiaceum, Bull. Champ. 146.
Bovista plumbea, Persoon Syn. 137,2.
On fields and grassy places, after rain.
Outer peridium white, becoming lead-colour, vanishing
entirely, except at the base.
2. Bovista nigrescens. Blackish hull-Jist.
Sporangium globular or roundish, brownish-black, beneath
plaited.
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