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An HISTORY of FUNGUSSES, 



CXXXII. PE2IZA plana margine convxo pilofo. Sp. PL 1651. Mich. 



fcutellata. Gen.zoj, t. $6, Jig. 19. Scbcef. Fung. t. 284.. Ray Syn. 



p. 18, t. 24, y^. 3. Relhan Flor. 466, No. g6g. Hudfon 

 Angl. 637, 14. Lightfoot Scot. 1053, 8. 



CILIATED 



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CVIII. 



P E Z I Z A. 



FIG. I. 



/ "T" V HJS grows moil commonly on cow's dung, in the fields, 

 **■ fometimes on rotten wood, or on mofs in a moift and 

 putrid ftate. Its firft appearance is like a poppy feed, of a 

 pale orange colour ; the prominent part covered with ftiff up- 

 right hairs, when a little magnified, appearing as at a. foon 

 the top opens, as at b. when the hairs, which before feemed 

 to cover the whole top, are found to adhere to the verge of the 

 cup only; and the lhape of the whole imitates a globular 

 goblet. As it advances in growth, the rim expands, falls 

 back; and the difk becomes flat, only a little elevated at the 

 margin. The plant is of a reddifh orange colour. 



Grows in fields about Halifax, plentifully. 



cxxxrii. 



aerulea. 



PEZIZA plana, marginibu's obtufis cilioris. 



BLUE PEZIZA. 



TAB. CVIII. 



F I G. II. 



'HpHIS beautiful Peziza adheres, by a fmall central root, to 

 -*■ putrid wood in moift places. The outfide is black and 

 fmooth ; the infide of a bright blue. The margin a little 

 paler and obtufe, being furrounded with foft pale-coloured 

 hairs. The two large figures are magnified. 



I do not know that this plant has before been figured or 

 defcribed. I gathered thefe fpecimens under the fir trees, at 

 Burks-Hall, near Halifax, in October, 1782. 



