104 An HISTORY of FUNGUSSES, 



CXXVI. PEZIZA fubjlipitata campanulata, interne cremefino externe 



carneo, margine integro nudo attenuato. 



coccima. 



SCARLET PEZIZA. 



TAB. CIV. 



THIS plant, and the Elvella coccinea, figured by Shaeffer, 

 t. 148, and by me, t. 100, have been confidered by moft 

 authors as varieties of the fame fpecies ; and their Jynonima are 

 fo confounded together, by the publifhers of Floras, that it is 

 next to impofiible to afcertain properly, which of them belongs 

 to the one and which to the other. In the Hehella coccinea, the 

 plant is of equal thicknefs throughout ; the margin blunt or ob- 

 tufe ; the colour is an high orange or bright fcarlet on the upper 

 fide, and of the fame colour, only a little paler, on the out- 

 fide. Grows fometimes to be three or four inches in breadth, 

 and of various irregular fhapes ; is of a friable, brittle fub- 

 ftance, and found moft frequently upon gravel ; and, above all, 

 ejects its feeds in form of fmoke. 



In the Peziza coccinea now before me, the fubftance of the 

 plant is thickeft in the middle, growing thinner to the margin ; 

 the colour, in the infide of the cup, is a glowing crimfon, in- 

 clining to a bloody hue ; the outfide a pale carnation colour or 

 a pure white. The largeft fpecimens are about an inch in 

 diameter, and moft commonly of a regular bell-lhape. The 

 fubftance is firm and tough, and it is found on old fticks, or 

 the branches of dead trees, and never ejects its feeds in form 

 of fmoke. I have feen a ftalked variety of it perfectly white 

 on the outfide, as at A. B. A full-grown plant is cut perpen- 

 dicularly at C. 



Grows about rivulets, in woods about Halifax, plentifully, 

 in Autumn and Winter. 



