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farinose; colour pale ochraceous, ochraceous-buff, or whitis^n-buff; 

 base somewhat stalk-like, of the same colour. 



Rare ; it grows among dead leaves in woods and bushy places ; 

 gregarious, often caespitose. 



191. Peziza aurantia (Ed. — Cup almost sessile, more or less 

 irregular, contorted, oblique, and split; externally somewhat prui 

 nose, and whitish, tinted with orange; odour when drying not 

 unlike apricots, but earthy, 



A terrestrial species, often caespitose, met with in woods and 

 gardens, common on paths, and among felled trees, branches, chips, 

 twigs, etc. ; known from other British species by its brilliant orange 

 or scarlet-orange colour. 



192. Peziza cocMeata Bull. — Cup sessile, large, twis ed, brown, 

 externally pruinose. 



Terrestrial, often densely caespitose ; frequent in summer and 



autumn. 



193. Peziza vesiculosa Bull.— Cup large, entire, sessile, at 

 first globose, margin somewhat crenatc ; pallid brown within, lighter 



without and furfuraceous ; 

 fragile, watery ; the hymen- 

 ium has a tendency to 

 separate itself from the flesh 

 of the cup at bottom. 

 ^^^^ One of the most abundant 



ft■^'^jSt/^i^\ British species; common on 

 i9iy^' \\ ^^^ ground in gardens, on 

 te- ^X^Mi manure heaps, on rotten 



._ — ^wHS^MM^' . , / leaves, tan, road-scrapings, 



etc. ; spring to autumn, or 

 even winter ; generally 

 caespitose. When the fun- 

 gus is gathered the spores 

 are elastically projected into the air, and may be distinctly seen as a 

 faint cloud. 



194. Peziza cerea Sow.— Cup large, infundibuliform, repand, 

 fleshy, very fragile ; hymenium yellowish; externally furfuraceous, 

 whitish, with a villous stem-like base. 



P. cerea grows on the ground, among leaves, on tan, etc. ; 

 gregarious, caespitose. 



195. Peziza melastoma Sow.— Cup sub-stipitate; externally 

 brick-red, downy-flocculose, bristly-hairy, sometimes naked; hy- 

 menium urceolate, black ; stalk short, rooting by means of thick, 

 black, strigose filaments. 



Grows on rotten sticks, etc., in spring. 



Fig. 80.— Peziza vesiculosa Bull. (Natural size.) 



