. The mushroom book : a popular guide to the identification and study of our commoner fungi, with special emphasis on the edible varieties . Mushrooms; Mushrooms, Edible; Cookery (Mushrooms); cbk. Genus Geaster GENUS BOVISTELLA The genus Bovistella contains but one species. Bovistella Ohiensis (Edible) Peridium or Pouch—Globose or broadly obovoid, sometimes much depressed, wrinkled underneath, with thick cord-like base. Bark or Outer Coat—Dense, floccose, or with soft warts or spines. White or greyish, drying to buff colour, and falling away. Inner Coat—Smooth, shining, pale brown or yellowish
. The mushroom book : a popular guide to the identification and study of our commoner fungi, with special emphasis on the edible varieties . Mushrooms; Mushrooms, Edible; Cookery (Mushrooms); cbk. Genus Geaster GENUS BOVISTELLA The genus Bovistella contains but one species. Bovistella Ohiensis (Edible) Peridium or Pouch—Globose or broadly obovoid, sometimes much depressed, wrinkled underneath, with thick cord-like base. Bark or Outer Coat—Dense, floccose, or with soft warts or spines. White or greyish, drying to buff colour, and falling away. Inner Coat—Smooth, shining, pale brown or yellowish surface. Subgleba—Cup-shaped, broad, ample, occupying nearly one-half the peridium; long, persistent. Spores and Capillitium—Loose, friable, clay colour. Threads free, short, twice branching, originating within the spore mass, and having no connection with the tissue of the inner coat. Habitat—On ground in pastures and open Section of Bovistella (diagrammatic) GENUS GEASTER Earth-stars The Geasters or Earth-stars are the most picturesque forms of the puffballs. At first they are sunk deep in the soil, and are connected with it by abundant thread-like mycelium, which issues from every part of the surface. In the earth-stars the covering to the pouch is double, the outer cover is thick and leathery, and at first closely invests the inner coat, but is separate from it. At maturity the outer coat breaks its connection with the mycelium in the soil and bursts to form separate lobes, which become reflexed and lift the inner ball from the ground into the air, where it remains, seated at the centre of the expanded star- B8-vfe-teV-lS 9 O-hi-en'-sIs 129 Ge-Ss'-ter. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Marshall, Nina L. (Nina Lovering). New York : Doubleday, Page
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