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T U LO STOM A b r u m a l e .
Long-stalked Puff-Ball.
C la s s a n d O u d e r CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Linn N a t . O k d . GASTROMYCI,
Link.
GEN ERIC CHARACTER.
Peridium duplex ; exlerim connatum, in pulverem secedens; interius membranaceum,
ostiolo marginato cartilagneo dehiscens. Sporidiis jloccis inspersa.
F r ie s .
Peridium double ; outer one connate, deciduous in minute portions ; inner
one membranaceous, bursting by a marginated orifice. Sporidia scattered
among the filaments.
s p e c i f i c c h a r a c t e r .
ÏU LO S T OM A brumale ; stipite suhglabro, peridii ore ahbreviato.
T. stipes nearly glabrous, the orifice of the peridium very short.
T u l o s t om a b r u m a l e , Pers. Disp. Meth. Fung. p. 6— Syn. Fung. p. 139.—
Alb. et Schwein. p. 79-— De Cand. Fl. Franç. v. 2. p. 269 Ejusd. Syn.
p. 56.—Nees, Syst. t. 12. £ 130.—Mart. Fl. Crypt. Erl. p. 388.—Moug.
et Nestl. St. Fxsicc. No. 387.—Schwein. Fung. Carol. No. 335.— Wahl.
Fl. Lapp. p. 1024.
L y c o p e r d o n pedunculatum, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1654.— Suec. No. 1276.—
Putsch, Flench. Fung. p. 123. t. 29. f. l6 7 Pull. Champ, p. I 6I. t. 294.
et t. 471. f. 2.— With. Pot. Arr. v. 4. p. 451.—Sow. Fung. t. 406.
H a b . On walls and dry stony banks. Autumn. Generally rare, b u t not
unfrequent in the neighbourhood of London. On the walls of Hyde
Park, and on a wall near the Half-way H ouse to Greenwich, M r S o w e r b
y . Norfolk, Dr S u t t o n .
Plant one inch to one inch and a h a lf high, and of a brownish colour.
Stipes about one-eighth of an inch thick, erect, nearly glabrous, except
at the top, where it is somewhat scaly, firm, solid, or with a cavity filled
with a fibrous pith. Head globose, nearly h a lf an inch in diameter,
at first brown, b u t the outer peridium falling insensibly away, leaves
the inner, membranaceous, permanent peridium of a grey colour, and
smooth surface. Or f e e exactly at the summit, circular, about a line in
breadth, with a short, erect, cartilaginous margin. The interior of the
peridium is filled with a mass of fine woolly Jilaments, and minute globose
reddish sporidia. The filaments arise from the inner periphery of
the peridium.