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on opposite sides of stalk. There is but a single British species, 

 which is represented by a model. 



1 86. Spathularia flavida Pers. — Receptacle spathulate, com- 

 pressed, undulate, nearly even, yellow ; stalk white or faintly 

 tinted with ochre. 



S. flavida is not common ; it grows on dead fir leaves and moss 

 in damp woods ; gregarious. 



GENUS XLIV.—PEZIZA Dill. 



Receptacle at first closed, afterwards expanding, cup-shaped, 

 marginate ; epidermis thin, contiguous, glabrous, pruinose or floccoso- 

 furfuraceous, persistent, distinct ; cups adfixed to the centre, often 

 stipitate, unfolding, more or less concave, often becoming plane ; 

 hymenium smooth, nearly always differing in colour; substance 

 fleshy-membranaceous, not waxy or gelatinous. There are more 

 than a hundred British species of Pesiza, of which nine are 

 represented by models. 



187. Peziza macropus Pers. — Cup stalked, hemispherical, then 

 expanded, somewhat hairy ; the whole plant externally ashy ; disc 

 mouse-coloured. 



On the ground in shady woods. Summer and autumn. 



188. Peziza coccinea Jacq. — Cup stalked, funnel-shaped; plant 

 externally whitish and downy ; disc 

 bright blood-red or carmine, 



A somewhat uncommon fungus, found 

 in spring. It grows on fallen sticks in 

 woods, especially dead branches of hazel. 

 Sometimes it grows on sticks covered 

 with earth, as if growing on the ground. 

 Easily recognised by its vivid colour. 

 It rarely varies to wholly snow-white. 



189. Peziza acetabulum L.— Cup- 

 shaped, furfuraceous, ribbed externally 

 with branched veins, which run up from 

 the short, lacunose, fistulose stalk ; cup 

 brown within, lighter brown without ; 

 stalk ribbed. 



P. acetabulum is terrestrial, and 

 generally grows in wet places in spring. 

 Said to be edible. 



Sometimes the cup of this fungus is dusted with brown powder,, 

 caused by the attack of a mould, Hypo?nyces cervimts Tul, 



190. Peziza leporina Batsch. — Sub-stipitate, elongated on one 

 side, and somewhat resembling in form the ear of a hare ; externally 



Fig. 79. — Peziza coccinea Jacq. 



(Natural size.) 



