A small puffball with a short thick tapering stem-like base formed of brownish spongy tissue.  The fruit body is intially whitish but darkening as it matures, and covered in small conical warts that rub off to leave a net-like pattern on thin papery skin.  When mature the spores are dispersed through an small apical pore. 

other Lycoperdon species

Photograph in habitat, with close-up of surface ornamentation

Grassland

Autumn, although spent fruiting bodies may persist.

Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.