TAB. CCCL. 



AURICULARIA phosphorea. 



BYSSUS PHOSPHOREA. Linn. Mant. p.^iY. 



i HE young and moft common ftate of this plant 

 has the appearance of a ByJJus, and often feems httle 

 elfe than the purple colour caufed on the wood by the 

 damp or the gallic acid, and the fricftion and iron of 

 a faw. When older it becomes of a more vivid deep 

 purple, and often under favourable circumftances 

 forms an Auricularia ; which appearing to be its moft 

 perfect form, we refer it to that genus. Its fibres 

 penetrated the fubftance of the paper it was wrapped 

 up in, and began to form on the oppofite or outer 

 lide, being fhut up in a damp box. The whole is of a 

 more or lefs denfe cottony or fibrous texture. 



TAB. CCCLI. 



PEZIZA DOMESTICA. 



HIS has been known about ten years on new 

 plaiftered cielings, or walls which admit the rain. It 

 firft clothes the places that have been thus wetted, 

 with a fine cottony or membranous film, nearly as 

 white as the plaifter, which is in a fliort time partly 

 covered with falmon-coloured knobs. Thefe at lengh 

 form a kind of upright Peziza, externally villofe. 



TAB. CCCLII. 



PEZIZA EQUINA. 



HELVELLA equina. F.Dan, tab. ']']^. Jig. 2>- 



r REQUENT on horfe-dung in damp fliady places, 

 and generally in abundance. It feklom expands, is of 

 a dull fox colour, and rough or hifpid on the outfide. 



