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" Handbk," 1980 ; " Mycogr.," f. 242 ; Pat., p. 169, f. 373. 

 Helvetia vesiculosa — Bolt., t. 175. Peziza lycoperdioides 

 — D. C, "Flo. Fr." ii. 87 (partly). Pustularia vesiculosa 

 — Fckl, " Synib. Myco," p. 329 ; Sacc, " Myco. Ven. Sp," 

 p. 167, Aleuria vesiculosa — Gill., "Champ.," p. 45. c. i. 



Exs.— Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 818; Phil., "Elv. Brit." 

 13; "Erb. Grit. Ital," 773; Sacc, "Myco. Ven.," 733. 



On the ground, rich soil, manure heaps, rotten leaves, 

 etc. Spring and autumn. 



Cup 1 to 3 inches broad, often csespitose, sometimes 

 repand. The base of the cup is very fleshy, and frequently 

 projected into a short thick stem, covered with abundant 

 white mycelium ; the hymenium has a tendency to 

 separate itself from the flesh of the cup at the bottom. 



Name — Vesicula, a little bladder. 



Midlands (Purton). Bungay (D. Stock). Fulham 

 (Herb. Kew). Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 

 Paddington (Herb. Ke v). Pen-y-gwyrd, North Wales ! 

 Church Stretton ! Minsterley, Salop ! on manure in my 

 garden ! Carlisle (Dr. Carlyle). Near Bristol (Mr. Spencer 

 Perceval). 



42. Peziza cerea. Sow. 



Cups large, gregarious, csespitose, infundibuliform, 

 repand, fleshy, very fragile ; hymenium yellowish ; ex- 

 ternally furfuraceous, whitish, with a villous stem-like 

 base ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 

 20x9/1; paraphyses linear, enlarged upwards. 



Peziza cerea— Sow., "Fung.," t. 3; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco.," ii. 52 ; " Eng. Flo.," v. 188 ; Berk., " Outl.," p. 363 ; 

 Price, fig. 80 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," 1979 ; " Mycogr," 244 ; 

 Karst., "Myco. Fenn." p. 54; Bull., "Champ.," t. 44; 

 Weinm, "Hym.," 117; Kickx., "Crypt. Flan.," p. 495. 

 Plicaria cerea— Fckl, " Symb. Myco.," p. 327. Peziza 

 vesiculosa, var. cerea — Rehm., "Asco," 201. Aleuria 

 cerea — Gill., "Champ.," p. 44. 



Exs.— Fckl, " F. Rh.," 1225 ; Rehm., " Asco.," No. 201. 



Gn tan beds, on the ground amongst leaves, etc. 

 Spring. 



