TAB. CXLVIII. 



PEZIZA ARGILLACEA. 



Occasionally on common black modelling 

 clay, where, to the artift, it is a troublefome intruder, 

 it being generally neceffary to work the part again to 

 get rid of it. It is held to the clay by very fine atte- 

 nuated cobweb-like fibres from the fides, as it were to 

 affiffc the little knobby root. 



T A B. CXLIX. 



PEZIZA MELASTOMA. 



This pretty plant was fent with a neat drawing from 

 Hexham in Northumberland, by Francis Scott jun. of 

 that place, who obferves, that it is frequent on the root 

 of Erica vulgaris ^ &c. that it is of a thick hard fub- 

 ftance in every ftage of growth, growing fingly or in 

 groups in upland fliady woods, about February and 

 March. The black infide in drying forms cracks, and 

 when magnified we fee whitifh threads crofling them. 



T A B. CL. 



PEZIZA AUREA. 



HELVELLA aurea. Bolt. 98. With. ed. 3. 340. 

 COMMON on cut ftumps of oak,'&:c. in autumn. 



