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lay so thick that, while it refused to give us foot-hold, it 

 nefariously robbed us of our goloshes. We were thus 

 stranded on a grassy bank, and angling with our 

 umbrellas for the mud-locked goloshes, when my eye fell 

 on a large mis-shapen brown cup, pale on the outside, 

 and wrinkled within. It was as large as a tea-cup. I 

 was at once reconciled to my difficult position, and felt 

 quite obliged to the mud for staying my footsteps, and 

 giving me time to distinguish the clay-coloured cup from 

 the clay out of which it sprung. This was the Veined 

 Peziza (P. venosa, Plate XX., fig. 5). 



Our first specimens of the Orange Peziza were found 

 in Kent (P. aurantia, Plate XX., jig. 2). Here the cups 

 are nearly as large as in the last species. The outside is 

 pale orange ; the inside most intense and brilliant in 

 colour. The plants grow in clusters, and nearly always 

 shoulder each other out of shape. It was growing; on 

 walks in the pleasure grounds both at Eisden and 

 Elfords one autumn ; and the next season I espied its 

 orange cups in a far distant and far different place, the 

 cemetery at Glasgow. 



The Hot-bed Peziza is an attractive species from the 

 extreme neatness of its globular form, and the umber 

 scales which often stud its surface. Our specimens are 

 some from Kent, and some from Shropshire (P. vesiculosa, 

 Plate XX., jig. 3). 



The Pale Peziza is smaller than any of these, and 

 somewhat boat shaped. It is whitish and scaly on the 

 outside, and buff within. I gathered it off a stump on 

 the banks of Loch Lomond. 



The Scarlet Peziza is deservedly a universal favourite. 



