There is one genus belonging to the same family as the lycoperdons, the species of which are very interesting on account of the peculiar way in which the wall is ruptured.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson
Sporangia regular and stipitate or sessile and somewhat irregular; the wall, at maturity, irregularly ruptured.
"The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio"
A. P. Morgan
Plasmodiocarp in small rings or links, then confluent and elongated, irregularly connected together, bent and flexuous, resting on a thin venulose hypothallus; the wall firm, dark-colored, with a thin layer of stellate crystals of lime, irregularly ruptured.
"The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio"
A. P. Morgan