TAB. XXIII. 



LYCOPERDON hydrophorum. 



PEZIZA HYDROPHORA. BulUard t. 410. 



This is evidently next akin to the L. Carpobolus. 

 We have found it annually for three years paft in Au- 

 guft and September, on the decaying trunk of a willow 

 near Tothill-Fields. 



In a young ftate it is fomewhat deprefled, a little 

 woolly ; afterwards becoming rounder, and finally 

 projecting the ball, much as in the preceding fpecies. 

 We have indeed been able to dete6t it only on the edge 

 of the red outer cafe, which in this fpecies does not fplit 

 into rays ; but we find many empty cups or cafes, from 

 which doubtlefs the balls have been thrown to a diftance. 



T A B. XXIV. 



PEZIZA SCUTELLATA. JVtth.VOl.O,. 442. 



r* OUND, not very unfrequently, in the rotten parts of 

 hollow trees. The hairs in this are black. There is an 

 Englifli Peziza found on cow-dung {Elvella equina^ 

 Flo. Dan. t. 1329), which though fmaller in all its parts, 

 paler, and ciliated with hairs of the fame colour as the 

 difk, feems to be a variety of this. There are fome 

 without hairs, but we doubt whether that can make a 

 Ipecific diftincflion. See Lightf. Flo. Scot. 1053. 



T A B. XXV. 



AURICULARIA tabacina. 



A. NicoTiANA. Bolton 174. With. vol. 3. 433. 



v^OMMON in woods and many other places, on ftumps 

 and branches of decaying trees. It is thin and flexible, 

 attached by the back, the upper part projecting, a little 

 rugged and zoned, and either growing in an imbricated 

 manner, or forming elegant undulations, from three or 

 four inches to two or three feet in extent, made more 

 confpicuous by the light yellow margin being con- 

 trafted with the bright, and often nearly red, brown of 

 the upper and under fide. It thrives mofl: in damp 

 places or in wet weather, fometimes exuding reddifli 

 drops (poffibly coloured with the feeds) from the un- 

 der furface. In drying it becomes flirivelled and lofes 

 all its original fplendor, and may then be compared to 

 dried tobacco, to which we fuppofe the name Nicotiana 

 Avas meant to allude. 



