GROWING about HALIFAX. 



PEZIZA acaulis, difco viridis, margine nigris. 



GREEN PEZIZA. 



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TAB. CIX. 



FIG. I. 



'TpHIS pretty Peziza adheres to decaying oak leaves, by its 

 ■*■ whole under fide. The difk is of a dark green colour. 

 The margin broad in proportion, and black. The figures, on 

 the leaf, are the natural fize; the two feparate ones are magni- 

 fied. 1 faw this plant, in abundance, on the fallen decaying 



leaves in North-Dean, in December, 1785, when this figure 

 was taken. I find no account of it amongft authors. 



CXXXIV. 



'viridis. 



PEZIZA acaulis, difco fufcis, marginibus elevatis pallidis. CXXXV 



fufia. ' 



BROWN PEZIZA. 



TAB. CIX. 



F I G. II. 



'~p v HIS grows on dunghills, when they become dry by long 

 -*■ lying unmoved. The difk is of a flrong brown. The fub- 

 fiance of the plant thin, adhering by its whole bafe, except the 

 margin ; which is entire, a little elevated, thin, and of a pale 

 kind of olive colour. I find no proper account of this fpecies. 



Lightfoot, in his Flora Scotica, p. 1054, after his 

 defcription of the Peziza fcutellata, adds, " It varies of a 

 " yellow and brownifh colour, and fometimes with a naked 

 " margin, destitute of hairs ;" but my plant is quite diftincl 

 from the Peziza fcutellata, in any of its ftates or ftages. I 

 have met with it in feveral places about Halifax, but not in 

 great plenty. 



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