Puffball Mushrooms

These eyeball looking mushrooms are commonly known as puffballs. If you were to press on one, you would most likely see what looks like a puff of smoke come out of it. Of course, it would not be smoke, but spores. Unlike most other mushrooms, puffballs produce spores as an interior mass (gleba) rather than on the exterior surfaces such as gills or pores.  Some varieties of puffballs can grow quite large (up to two feet), but I have only seen small ones at the Connetquot River State Park, where I photographed these.