CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Peziza, With a Stem. 
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P. (Boxt.) Stem black at the bottom: pileus funnel- ochroleu’ca 
shaped, dirty yellow within, 
Bolt. 105.1. 
Plant hard and leathery. Stem solid, black below, dusky 
yelloss above, near ¢ inch high, thick as a large pin. Pileus 
pers) ie ochrey yellow within, smooth, even at the edge, 
about 3 of an inch over, Botron, 
Near Halifax in several places, . 
P, Stem short: pileus yellow, glase-shaped, border blunt, cyatlie?des. 
upright, 
| R. Syn. 24, 4, at p. 478. 
Stem very short. Pileus flattish, but slightly oye 
low, border smooth. Ray Synz. p. 18. n. 8, About 2 of an © 
inch high, and the same in diameter at the top. 
On rotten wood, | Aug.—April. 
P, (Barscu.) Stem rather long, strap-shaped, firm, dis- 
-" tinetly inserted : pileus concave, hemispherical, ex- 
panding. | en 
Bull. 416, 3-Hedw. stirp. ii. 9, C-Batsch. 57-Mich. 86. 
14, : 
The whole yellow. Stem 2 lineslong. Pileus 2 lines wide. 
Rextuan. Its colour varies indifferent shades of yellow, and its 
pileus is either nearly flat, or cupped in various degrees of hol- 
lowness.. The figure of Bulliard is excellent, and he well ob- 
serves that it grows upon the annual shoots of branches. 
On rotten wood in Madingley plantations. August. On half 
ie: sticks, Edgbaston. Oct. On rotten wood. Nov. Dec. 
r. Knapp. 
P, (BuLt.) Stems slender tapering: pileus slightly con- 
cave; pale yellow, 
Bull. 228-Batsch 150. 
ake, leathery, fleshy, funnel-shaped. Stem % to } inch 
hi ne tapering yaa ham 8 often bent in different directions. 
Pileus 1-10th to 1-4th inch diameter, funnel-shaped, but the hol- 
low above not deep on account of the thickness of the flesh. 
M. Bulliard says he only finds it on the coriaceus fruits as 
acorns, chesnuts, &c. and Batsch says his grew on theseeds of 
a hornbeam; but though the fruit of such trees may be its more 
common nidus, I found it growing~in clusters on a rotten 
stick in the month of Oct. 1791, Mr. Than informed me, 
that he had found the plant of Batsch in Madingley wood, but 
omitted to say on what it grew, 
calye’ulus. 
fructig’ena. 
