Edible. Same habit and quality as L. gemmatum.
(g) Cortex of stout spines which fall away, etc.
L. excipulifor´me Scop.—excipula, a receptacle. Peridium turbinate, depressed above, plicate below and contracted into a more or less elongated base. Cortex of large stout spines, convergent above, becoming smaller downward, which at length fall away, leaving a tomentose surface to the inner peridium. Subgleba occupying one-half or more of the peridium; mass of spores and capillitium greenish-yellow, then brownish-olivaceous; the threads about as thick as the spores, scarcely branched. Spores globose, minutely warted, 4–5µ in diameter.
Peridium 1–2 in. in diameter and 1–4 in. in height. Morgan.
Growing on the ground in meadows and woods. Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Schweinitz; Canada, Saccardo.
(h) Cortex of long spines, etc., which fall away, etc.
Lycoperdon pedicellatum
With magnified spores. (After Morgan.)
L. pedicella´tum Pk.—pediculus, a little foot. Peridium ¾-1½ in. in diameter, globose or depressed-globose, sessile or narrowed below into a stem-like base, whitish or cinereous, becoming dingy or smoky-brown with age, echinate with rather dense spines which are either straight, curved or stellately united and which at length fall off and leave impressions or obscure reticulations on the surface; capillitium and spores greenish-yellow, then dingy-olive, columella present. Spores smooth, pedicellate, 4–4.5µ in diameter, the pedicel three to five times as long.