Tafel 80:
TAB. LXXX.
LYCOPERDON recolligens. Woodward Tr. of Linn.
Soc. vol. 2. 58.
Very plentiful in Major Money's plantations at
Trowfe, near Norwich, in October 1794. Thefe puff-
balls are partly under ground till the volva burfts,
which is apparently with fome elaftic force, as they are
commonly found tumbled about in different directions.
It has been found on a grafs plat in a garden at Wal-
thamftow feveral different years.
For a full and very ingenious account of this and fome
others of the ftellated Lycoperdons, I beg leave to refer as
above.
Tafel 401:
TAB. CCCCI.
LYCOPERDON recolligens Woodzcard in Linn.
Trans, vol. 2. 58. JVith. vol. 4. 375.
I HAVE long wished to add the de#####ion of this
curious Fungus, as a debt owing in the third volume
of this work. It is omitted by Gmelin; and he seems
to confound L. sessile with L. stellatum, from which it is
certainly distinct — see my plate 80, which I have called
L. recolligens. I am greatly obliged to the Rev. Mr. Dalton
for setting me right, by favouring me with the specimens
of L. recolligens here figured. From many experiments
with L. stellatum, and what I would call L. sessile, I find
it more apt to recoil or expand than they are, and in
a more remarkable manner; for by damping it the volva
immediately expands, and in drying it contracts, con-
trary to what they do, which expand in drying, and coil
up on being damped.
It has other characters by which it may be di-
stinguished from them. Its head is orbicular with a
large mouth, a little flattened; the volva is thin and
smoother. The one figured at tab. 80, now L. sessile,
has an ovate head, rather pointed apex, and the mouth
scarcely more than as if torn; the head always sessile.
The head of L. stellatum is rounder and pedunculated,
so is that of L. fornicatum; but its standing so regularly
on four points is a sufficient distinction; although their
being so nearly alike in other respects has caused some
dispute whether this may not be accidental: I have,
however, sufficient specimens to show that it is constant.
