will readil}'- account for this. Thefe ocStofperm feed- 

 veffels have given name to the genus OBofpora in 

 I led wig, which includes many of the Peziza^ as 

 having a fimilar ftrud:ure. Thefe before us are of a 

 light greenifli yellow, varying to brown. 



Fig. 7. P. SUBDIAPHANA. 



OF a femi-tranfparent waxy appearance; not un- 

 common on the under fides of rotting wood in fome- 

 what clofe places, and may be a variety of P. cinerea^ 

 U 64, dried before perfected. 



Fig. 8. P. abbotiana. 



THIS pretty fungvis was fent me, fome time fince, 

 by the Rev. Dr, Abbot, from Bedfordfhire. I fketched 

 it as foon as it came, but waited for more of it, as 1 ex- 

 pe6ted to find fome with foliage to conftitute it a 

 Lichen. As the fpecimen here figured had not any 

 thing like the cruft or foliage of a Lichen, 1 therefore 

 venture to figure it as Fungus. 



TAB. CCCXC. 



Fig. I. LYCOPERDON PHALLOiDEs. Sm. Spicil. t. 12. 

 Dickfon's Faf. Cryp. i. 24. 



1 HE firft author who appears to have noticed this 

 mofl: extraordinary Fungus is Mr. Woodward, of Bun- 

 gay, in Phil. Tranf of London, v. 74. 473. /. 16. It 

 has been found in fandy banks near Norwich, and in 

 Suffolk, by Mr Woodward. Mr. Davey, of the Grove, 

 Yoxford, finds it annually in Suffolk. I do not know 

 that it has been deteded in the l^ate of an Qgg^ or ball, 

 which appears to be formed under ground as the balls 

 of the Phalli, tab. 329 and 330, are above ground. The 

 l\ipes and pileus are included in a curious manner. 

 The outer and coarfer volva has a fort of lining, which 

 covers the frudification on the volva that furrounded 

 the ftem, the peculiar protrufion of which burfts the 

 whole, tearing the covers, &c. and forms a cap, or 

 pileus, of the three coverings, with part of the llera 



