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The giant puff-ball, and the _L. cyathiforme_, where the wall or peridium ruptures irregularly, have been placed in a genus called _Calvatia_; certain other species which are nearly globose, and in which the wall is of a papery texture at maturity, are placed in the genus _Bovista_.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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