LYCOFERDON, in botany, a genus of the cryptogamia fungi class: It is roundish, and replete with farinaceous seeds. There are ten species, six of them natives of Britain, viz. the tuber, or solid puff-ball; the cervinum, or branny puff-ball; the bovista, or common puff-ball; the stellatum, or star puff-ball; the fornicatum, or turret puff-ball; and the pedunculatum, or stalked puff-ball.