CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Peziza. With a Stem. 
Bull, 252—-Bolt. 127. 2—Fl. dam. 288. 
Seeds contained in pores, from whence they ate thrown with 
an elastic force. Grep. cited in Linn. suec. n. 1275. The 
black dots consist of seeds immersed in the substance of the 
plant. Linn. Stem dark grey to black, to # inch high, taper- 
ipg downwards, Plexus an expansion of the upper part of the 
stem, concave, white, with black dots, + to 4 inch diameter. 
Substance dry, tough and elastic. Bunn. Bott. Mr. Wood- 
ward thinks this may more properly rank as a Sphzria; and ob- 
serves that it is very common about Bungay. 
On horse and cow dung, and dry dunghills. En 
: May—Oct. Hups.—Winter and Spring. Botr. 
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P. Stem short: pileus glass-shaped: angular on the out-acetab’ulum 
side ; with branching veins. 
Bull, 485, 4—Vaill. 13. 1-Mich. 86. 1. 
The largest of the Genus; thin, brittle, smooth transparent 
like wax. Stem woody, brown, shorty branching up the base 
of the pileus, solid, nearly $ inch long, and 3 diameter. Pileus 
2 or 24 inches over, greatly cupped so as to resemble a goblet or 
bowl, 3 to 14 inch deep, waved at the edge, red brown within, 
e brown without. Sometimes without the angular branch- 
a from the root. Buti1arp. Nearly allied to P. cochleata, — 
the external veins and the regular form constituting the principal 
differences. It grows near Bungay, but is not so commonas the 
P. cochleata. Mr. Woopw. - 
On rotten wood in hedges and woods, rare. _ Sept.—May. 
P, (Huns.) Stem cylindrical: pileus slightly concave ; 
_ brown; hairy on the outside. 
Sowerby 38-Bolt. 96-FI. dan. 1200. 2-Schaf. 167-Bull. 
196. : 
Mr. Bolton’s figure well as to its habit, but the hairiness on 
the outside not expressed. Mr. Woopwarp. Siem solid, brown, 
2 to 3 inches high; thick as a crow or a goose quill, rather ta- 
“pering upwards, Pi/eus thin, brittle, semi-trans , brown, 
gently concave, woolly on the outside, 1 to 2 over. 
Woods near Guildford. Hups, Woods below Highfield 3 
miles from Halifax. ‘Sept. 
P, (Dicxs.) Stem growing at the base to a blackish fun- 
= tuberous substance : pileus nearly bell-shaped, 
rown without, paler within. 
: Bull, 485, 3-Hedw. stirp. ti. 10. B. se 
Stem unequal, buried upto the head within the soil. Dicks. 
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