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IIP? N
H I S T O R Y OF FUNGUSSES,
G R O W I N G about HALIFAX.
G E N U S IX.
L Y C O P E R D O N .
LYCOPERDON globofum folidiufculum lacerum-centra farinefiero radice infirtiSum. Sp.
PI. 1653. Hall. Hifi. 219, 1. Sterb. Fung. t. 32, fig. B. B. B. ¡^Lycoperdon
, fpadiceum. Scbftf. Fung. t. 188. Dick/oil Crypt. faf.~i. p. 25. Mich Gen. t. .99.
I fig. 2, 3, 4. Lycoperdon aurentfum. Bulliard, pi. 270. - Vaill. Paris, t. 16.
M- 5> 6' 7- 8-
S U B T E R R A ' N E O U S PU F F - B A L L .
T A B. CXV'I.
' I '•HIS PuiF-Ball fometimes grows to a confiderable fee, under ground, I have
X fometimes found it the fee of fig. a. in the plate.*t is then deftitute of proper
roots, but emits here and therePan hairlikë fibre from its furface; it is then "of a brown
colour on the outfid'e, rough to the touch, and the furface fometimes covered with
papilla -, fometimes marked with furrows, which imitate a rude kind of network, or
covered with angular warts, of various irregular fides ; fometimes fmooth, âs :kt a . a.^—
in this ftate it is firm and folid, fo as to refill the ftrongeft preffure between the hands.
The bark is very thick, -and.itsfubftance white. The internal fubftance of the plant of
a milk colour, and a very clofe texture.
When it arifes above the furface, thofe fibres which chance to be loweft, .forin themselves
into a root, as at b. c.d. the plant increafes in growth, and the figures on its bark
are proportionably enlarged; it aifumes a variety of colours, when expofed to.'the air,
as yellow, green, brown, reddiih, &c. &c. • -When further grown, the milk colour
changes to a purple, and is beautifully netted with black veins ; at laft it changes quite
black. I have obferved it in all thefe Hates, in various places in this neighbourhood.
In its fmooth ftate it is the Lycoperdon Jpadiceous of SCHIFFER ;. when'covered with
riling warts it makes the Lycoperdon aurentium of BULLIARD, and the Lycoperdon of
V A I L L A N T , t. 16, fig. 8.
The bark never breaks, as in the Dully Puft'-Balls; it is perforated in many places
by fmall fcorabeii, which feed in great numbers upon the internal'fubftance ; by means
of which infeéts, the feeds are, probably, conveyed -into the earth, -for the produdlion
of future plants. In BULLIARQ'S figure, a fine conjeûural fmoke arifes from one of
thefe perforations.
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