Lycoperdon subincarnatum
With spines and pits magnified.
(After Morgan.)
L. subincarna´tum Pk.—pale flesh-color. Peridium 6–12 lines broad, globose, rarely either depressed or obovate, gregarious or cespitose, sessile, with but little cellular tissue at the base, covered with minute nearly uniform pyramidal or subspinulose at length deciduous warts, pinkish-brown, the denuded peridium whitish or cinereous, minutely reticulate-pitted; capillitium and spores greenish-yellow, then dingy-olivaceous, columella present. Spores minutely roughened, 4–5µ in diameter.
Prostrate trunks, old stumps, etc., in woods. Common. August to October. Peck, 32d Rep. N.Y. State Bot.
New York, Peck, Rep. 24th, 32d; Pennsylvania, Gentry; Ohio, Morgan; Wisconsin, Brown.
B. Peridium Very Small, Globose, Etc.
(l) Cortex a thin coat of minute spinules, etc.
Lycoperdon separans
With magnified spores.
(After Morgan.)