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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of terricolous puffballs of the order Lycoperdales, having the peridium at the apex of a stalk composed of interlaced strands of gelatinous hyphæ and opening by means of a stellate mouth which is bright-colored in one species, C. cinnabarinum.

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