Lycogala epidendrum

Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fries, Syst. Myc. 3: 80. 1829
Lycoperdon Epidendrum L. Sp. PI. 1184. 1753. Mucor Lycogala Scop. Fl. Cam. ed. 2. 2: 496. 1772. Mucor fragiformis Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: 132. 1774. Lycoperdon pisiforme Jacq. Misc. Austr. 1: 137. 1778. Lycoperdon variolossum [sic] Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 2. 645. 1778. Galeperdon epidendrum Weber; Wiggers, Prim. Fl. Holsat. 109. 1780. Lycoperdon chalybeum Batsch, Elench. Fung. 155. 1783. Lycogala miniata Pers. Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 87. 1794.
* as "flavo-fusca." f as "conica." Reticularia rosea DC. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1: 105. 1798. Lycogala ferruginea Schum. Enum. PI. Saell. 2: 192. 1803. Reticularia minis* ta Voir, in Lam. Encyc. 6: 184. 1804. Reticularia punctata Poir. in I^am. Encyc. 6: 184. 1804. Lycogala terrestre Fries, Symb. Gast. 10. 1817. Lycogala affine Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 81. 1873.
Aethalia scattered or crowded, subglobose to depressed-spherical or irregular from pressure, pinkish-gray or yellowish-brown to deep olivaceous or nearly black, 3—15 mm. broad; cortex warted with yellow to brownish-black scale-like warts or merely roughened, rather thin and fragile; dehiscence apical; pseudocapillitium composed of long, branching and anastomosing flattened tubes marked with conspicuous transverse folds and wrinkles, the main branches near the origin on the inner side of the cortex 12-25 ft in diameter, the secondary branches 6-12 ju in diameter, the numerous free ends clavate or obtuse; spores at first pinkish-gray in mass, changing to pale ochraceous or pallid, by transmitted light colorless, globose, reticulate, 6-7.5 n in diameter; Plasmodium coral-red.
Type locality: Europe.
Habitat: Dead wood.
Distribution: Throughout North America; cosmopolitan.