CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Peziza. Stemless. > Say 
Var. 2, Smooth at the edge. 
Bull. 438. 3. * 
Stemless ; orange-coloured, nearly flat, not fringed at the 
edge, 4 of an inch diameter. 
Pez. fulva. Huds. and Bot. arr. ed. ii. On cowdung, and 
amongst moss on a clayey soil, Edgbaston, common. 
Te of Pears Aug. Sept. 
Var. 3. Woolly and white on the outside. 
Sowerby 17—Bull. 410, 3. 
M. Bulliard observes that the pileus closes in dry and opens 
in wet weather. Flat, blood red, hairy; sometimes. as large as 
a sixpence. Mr. STackHouwse. 
, Specimen, and a beautiful drawing of it sent to me by Mr. 
Knapp, who found it on dead sticks in a wood in Buckinghamsh. 
On bogs, Cornwall. 
Var. 4. Orange red: border white, divided into strap- 
shaped segments rolled back. 
Very small, not above a thirtieth of an inch in diameter. 
Grows in circles, or in circular spots on the under side the 
leaves of Tussilago farfara. 
Bank of the pool dam; Edgbaston. _ Aug, 
P. (Buu.) Large bladder-shaped, thin, brittle, dull yel- vesiculo’sa, 
- low. . 
Bull. 44 and 457. 1-Sawerby 3 and 4—Bolt, 175-Scheff. 
280. ; : 
Nearly globular when young, the opening at the top enlarg. 
ing as it grows older, but the edge is always turned in. The 
root is a dark coloured hard knotty substance. The plant from 
2 to 3 inches diameter, or more, and nearly as much in height; 
the substance smooth, moist, tender, brittle, dull ochrey yellow 
within, paler without, and the surface granulated. Bottron.— 
Approaches nearly to the Peziza cochleata, but does not tear like 
that, and if accidentally torn does not curl in spirally, neither 
does it jerk out its seeds like that. Buturarp.. 
Peziza cerea. Bull, and Sowerby, but the latter thinks that 
his pl. 3 is really distinct from pl. 4. On the ground on road 
sides, or on dunghills. Spring and Autumn, 
P. Egg-shaped, woolly without, smooth and buff within, lanugino’sa. 
Fl. dam 779, 2. 
This grows in large clusters, each plant when young and 
about the size of a sail peas egg-shaped, and entirely covered _ 
> with pale brown wool on the outside ; the aperture at the top at 
first small, smooth, conical, Advancing in. growth it becomes 
