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rugged all over, flesh-colour, pale purplish-rose, pale yellow-buff, 

 dull salmon or liver-whitish. 

 Oak, birch, lilac, lime, hazel, ash, chestnut. Aug.-April. 7 in. 



1868. P. pezizoides Mass. (from its resemblance to Peziza ; Gr. 



eidos, resemblance) a. 



Somewhat leathery, cup-shaped, then flattened, fixed at centre, 

 externally pallid villous. Hym. continuous, ochreous or some- 

 what pale umber ; mid. darker ; marg. white. 



Branches, horse-chestnut. \-% in. 



1869. P. gigantea Mass. (from its large size, giganteus) a b c. 

 Broadly effused, swelling when moist, fleshy-tough, waxy, cartila- 

 ginous when dry, slightly cracking ; marg. free, incurved. 

 Hym. even, continuous, partly granular, white to ivory, shaded 

 greyish j marg. rugose, grey-ivory beneath. 



Stumps, trunks, branches, fir, larch, sometimes investing fir-leaves, moss 

 and grass ; common. Oct. -April. 8^ in. 



1870. P. Crosslandii Mass. (after Charles Crossland of Halifax). 

 Effused, thin, soft when moist, wholly separating from matrix 



when dry. Hym. pale grey, faintly ochreous when dry. 



Wood and bark, fir. Differing from 1869 in the smaller spores and shorter 

 cystidia. 



1871. P. limitata Cooke (from the margin limited by a black line) a. 

 Somewhat orbicular, grumous, indurated, smooth. Hym. lurid, 



lavender-brown, shaded brown. 

 Wood and bark, broom. 3§ in. 



1872. P. rosea Mass. (from the rose-coloured hymenium) a b c. 

 Effused, very thin, slightly cracking, showing grain of wood 



beneath. Hym. minutely papillose in middle, rose or rose- 

 salmon becoming pale, sometimes clouded pale brown ; marg. 

 often finely fimbriate or rugoso-radiate and paler, sometimes 

 tinted pale sulphur. 



Wood, bark, birch, poplar, willow, walnut, rose, often spreading over grass, 

 lichens, etc. Oct. -Mar. 4§ in. Becoming rufous-salmon when dry. 

 Illosporium roseum is probably a young condition of this or of 1873. 



1873. P. inearnata Mass. (from the flesh-coloured hymenium; 



incamatus, flesh-coloured) a b c. 

 Somewhat waxy, agglutinate, thin, cracking when dry. Hym. 

 dull pale red, pale vermilion, red-orange, salmon- or vermilion- 

 white, or salmon, when young sometimes white ; marg. radiate, 

 varying darker or paler. 



Wood, bark, bramble, gorse, birch, beech, laburnum, alder, plane, fir. 

 Dec. -April. 5^ in. Illosporium carneum is probably a young state of 

 this or of 1872. 



1874. P. oehraeea Mass. (from the ochreous-yellow hymenium) a c. 

 Broadly efiused, cracking when dry. Hym. pallid ochreous, at 



first sprinkled with scattered shining gold-like atoms, some- 

 times pale vinous. 

 Wood, bark, ash. 5I in. This must not be confounded with 1895. 



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