190 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW BRITISH PEZIZA. 



They would by no means be persuaded to take -ffineas with 

 tliem, though he very importunately entreated them to do it. 

 Neither carried they off any of the women, though several of 

 them, both wives and maids, were very handsome : for they 

 believe the enemy will not harm them : not looking upon 

 whoredom as any ill thing. Thus -Slneas was left alone (with 

 only two servants and a guide) amongst a hundred women, 

 who sitting in a ring, with a fire in the middle of them, spent 

 the night sleepless, in dressing of hemp, and chatting with 

 the interpreter. When the night was well advanced, they 

 heard a mighty noise of dogs barking and geese gagling ; 

 whereupon the women sliped off several ways, and the guide 

 ran away ; and all was in such confusion, as if the enemy 

 had been upon them. But -3Eneas thought it his wisest 

 course to keep close in his bed-chamber, (which was a stable) 

 and there to await the issue ; lest running out and being un- 

 acquainted with the country, he should be robbed by the first 

 man he met. Presently both the guides and the women re- 

 turned, acquainting him, that all was well, and that they 

 were friends (and no enemies) who were arrived.'' See Cam- 

 den's Britannia, vol. ii. p. 1101. 



Description of a new British Peziza. 

 By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S., &;c. 



Peziza rudis. Berk. ; fasciculata turbinato-stipitata hymenio 

 piano hie illic depresso rugoso flavo-fusco subvinoso ; extern^ 

 subtiliterfibrilloso-striata; stipite elongato lacunoso vel striato. 



Hah. Pease Bridge Dean, on a shallow gravelly and peat soil, 

 with Polytrichum aloides. 



Whole plant of a watery yellowish brown with a vinous 

 tint, paler when dry, of a rather firm texture. Cup ^~f inch 

 high, J of an inch broad, turbinato-stipitate minutely fibril- 

 loso-striate. Hymenium plane, or more or less pitted and de- 

 pressed, but not truly cup-shaped. Asci elongated clavate 

 much attenuated below. Sporidia obovate-oblong. Stem 

 more or less elongated, angular, pitted, sometimes striate. 



Resembling somewhat in habit Fez. punicea, as figured by 

 Purton Midi. Fl. tab. 25. Its closest affinity seems to be with 



