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HISTORY of FUNGUSSES, 



GROWING about HALIFAX. 



A. 



CXXIII. PEZIZA cumpanulata lentifera. Sp. PL 1649. Peziza Jerecia. Scb*f. 

 kntifera. Fung. t. 180. Cyathus fericius intus lavis. Hall. Hiji. 2215. 



Mich. nov. Gen. p. 222. /. 102. Jig. 1. Vaill. Paris, p. $6, t. 11. 



fig. 6, 7. Hudfon Angl. 633, 1. Lightfoot Scot. 1048,-1. 



CXXIV. 

 firiata. 



LENTIL 



TAB. CII. 



PEZIZA. 



F I G. I. 



THE root is a little hard tubercle, emitting numerous fhort brown 

 fibres. The plant from half an inch to an inch high; it is bell- 

 fhaped, fpreading out at the rim ; the infide fmooth and fhining with a 

 filky glofs, flippery to the touch, dry, and of a pale whitilh moufe- 

 colour. There is a gentle afperity to the touch, on the outride, where 

 it is of a darker colour. 



While the plant is young, the mouth of the cup is covered with 

 a white membrane, which breaks in the centre, or is detached round 

 the margin, and difcovers the lentil-like feed-veflels ; which are at firft 

 filled with a white gelly, that afterwards become the feed. Each of 

 thefe lentil-like vefiels is attached to the bottom of the cup, by a 

 lmall filament. Grows on putrid wood, or in gravel walks. 



PEZIZA campamtlata lentifera, extus birfuta intus firiata. Sp. PL 

 1650. Schaf. Fung. t. 178. Relhan Flor. p. 164. No. 962. 



STRIATED 



TAB. CII. 



PEZIZA. 



FIG. II. 



THIS fpecies differs from the laft, in being formed like an in- 

 verted cone rather than a bell, in being of a darker colour, in 

 that the feed-vefiels are fmaller and paler coloured, in that it is covered 

 with fhort brown hairs on the outfide, and flrongly ftriated within. 

 Grows on old decaying roots and flocks of trees, about Halifax, but 



is rare. 



