II8 AN HISTORY OF FUNGUSSES,
CXLVT. LYCOPERDON bivolvatum, primum album denique nigrum.
gjobofum,
G L O B E PUFF-BALL.
T A ,B. OXVIII.
T Am defirous to diftinguiih this plant from the Lycoperdon
. bovijia, for the following reafons : In that it is furrounded
with two covers, only j the leathery coat, which furrounds and
adheres to the pith, and a foft downy epidermis, which is
eafily rubbed off, but is never diftinguilhed with any kind of
. figures on its lur-face: In that it is conftantly of a globular
figure, of a lhow white colour, till at maturity, and turns
black in decay; and in that it conftantly grows amongft grafs
in meadow or pafture ground, dnd is never found in woods» or
in company with the Lycoperdon bovifla, in any of its ihapes.
A llice cut oif, and turned down at the top of one of the
figures,, ihews die colour of the pith, while the plant is freih}
afterwards thP downy covering falls off, the other coat
lacerates, with a wide mouth, as in the upper figure; turns
black, and remains in this ftate, full of a black fmoky powder,
for many weeks.
It is a very common plant in the fields, in this part of
Yorkjhire-, may, while young, be eaten with fafety; and has
a tafte much like that of the. common muihroom.
The powder is ufed here, for ftenching blood, in fmall
new wounds.
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