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17 hours ago, Dave W said:

The second and the third pictures actually shows the under of the shrooms, it's some kind of puffball but I can't find which species

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Tough to ID old/post-mature smallish puffballs. But, I'd guess these are a species of Bovista, based upon: smallish size, rotund shape, smooth post-mature "skin" with a metallic luster, brown post-mature spore mass (interior), growth in grassy area. The young/immature Bovista is white inside, with whitish exterior, and multiple layers of "skin" that are fused together but may be observed when the fruit body is sectioned. 

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14 hours ago, Dave W said:

Tough to ID old/post-mature smallish puffballs. But, I'd guess these are a species of Bovista, based upon: smallish size, rotund shape, smooth post-mature "skin" with a metallic luster, brown post-mature spore mass (interior), growth in grassy area. The young/immature Bovista is white inside, with whitish exterior, and multiple layers of "skin" that are fused together but may be observed when the fruit body is sectioned. 

Could it be a Bovista nigrescens?

thinking about it, it looks more like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovista_pila

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Bovista pila is probably more common than B. nigrescens. If you could measure spores --need a >=400x microscope with micrometer-- then there may be a chance to ID to species. Even then, there may be more info necessary. With the fruit bodies old and in the condition seen, readily observable traits probably don't provide much useful info at the level of species ID. 

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