Peziza.] FUNGI. 189 



elliptic, y^uo of an inch long, certainly simple as represented by Dr. 

 Greville. 



Subgenus 2. Geopyxis (from yv}, earth and pi/xis, a ciip). 

 Cup at first closed. Veil innate. Sporidia si?7ipl€.* 



11. P. mdcropus, Pers. (long-stemmed Peziza); cup hemi- 

 splierical cinereous clothed with little hairy or villous warts, 

 disc mouse-coloured turninj^ pale, stem very long attenuated. 

 Pers. Si/n. p. 615. Fr. Syst. ISIyc. v. 2. p. 37. Grev. Sc. 

 Crypt. JFl. t. 70. Fl. Ed. p. 419.— 7^. stipitata, Huds. p. 636. 

 Sow. ! t. 39. With. v. ^.p. 303. — Helv. hispida (Jiemispherica') ^ 

 Bolt. t. 96. — Helv. fidiginosa, var. 2. campanidata, Purt. v. 3. 

 p. '257. —P. suhlicia, Holmsk. 2. t. 11. — Ilelv. suhlicia, 2. t. 27. 



On the bare ground or amongst leaves ; summer and autumn. Not 

 common. — Varying greatly in Uie degree of pubescence, occasionally 

 the border of the pilcus is reilexed, as in Sowerby's figure and that of 

 Holmskiold, ^ 27, and there is then no small degree of resemblance to 

 Ildvella elastica. 1 have met \\\i\\ a variety occurring abimdantly with 

 the stem not above 1 inch high. 



12. P. tuherosu, Bull, (tuberous Peziza) ; thin cup infundi- 

 biiliform bright brown at length pallid, stem elongated spring- 

 ing from a shapeless black tuber. BulL t. 485. f. 3. Dicks. 2. 

 p. 25. With. V. 4. p. 303. Sow J t. (i3. 3loug. Sf Nest. n. 

 397. Purt.v. 3. w. 1591. 



Woods. Spring : not uncommon. — Stem running deep into the 

 earth, 1 — 3 inches high. The root was supposed by Hedwig to be a 

 dried Anonone root, but it is most certainly as Dickson and Sowerby 

 long ago noticed, of a fungous nature, and probably Sckrotiinn ffouj- 

 orum, /3. lacunosum. 



13. P.rdpidujH, Bull, (radish Peziza); thin yellowish brown, 

 cup infundibuliform nearly smooth, stem twisted, root elon- 

 gated fibriUose. Pull. t. 485./. 2. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. p, 59. 

 — P. rupula, Pers. Syn. p. 658. — P. radicata, Ilolmsh. 2. t. 9. 

 Dichs. \.p.2\. With. V. 4. p. 304. 



Woods. Oct. Very rare.— Observed hitherto only by Dickson. 



14. P. a/puldris, L. (scolloped Peziza) ; nearly sessile thin 

 globoso-canipanulate fawn-coloured or pallid, externally mealy, 

 margin crenate. Linn. Succ. n. 127S. Huds. p. 6S5. With. 

 V. 4. p. 304. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. ;;. 62. — P. cre?iata, Pull. t. 

 396. /. S.—Funyoidcs yhnidis, S^c. Vail. Par. t. 1 1./. 3. 



On the ground in woods, especially where the soil has been burnt ; 

 very rare. Shrubbery, in mossy turf, Kilgbaston, Wd/inim/. — Ihc 

 plant observed in a hothouse by the editor cf the 7th edition is evidently 

 only a state of P. vesiculosa. Strut ^ of an inch high, ^ thick, some- 

 times obsolete, nieus palc-buHT. thin, transparent, scoHoped at the 

 edge, sha[)ed like the cup of an acorn, about 1 inch in diameter." If i(h. 

 /. c. 



• III r. mncrnpus tlic s;;or/t/«:r arc r«'presrnt»'(l liy Dr. Grt>ille ns contiiiii- 

 iiig one sj)oridioluin. 



