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