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xoad, for with difficulty each step has to be thoroughly investigated and ‘‘ sought 
out of them that have pleasure therein.” 
I must stop, omitting many a branch of trouble to the student, not however 
without the hope that as the number of Fungologists increases—and they certainly 
do increase—that some of the difficulties named will decrease, and not without the 
earnest wish that in admiring the lower forms of vegetable life, we may remember 
they may be made and ought to be made stepping stones to that higher form of 
life—namely, the angelic—which I am sure we shall all hope to have by-and-bye 
in exquisite happiness. 
ON THREE NEW HEREFORDSHIRE PEZIZAS, 
By Wittram Puitiies, F.L.S. 
The fungus flora of Herefordshire, thanks to the labours of the Woolhope 
Club, promises to be the most complete of any part of Britain. Every year is 
adding to the already long list of species others new to science, or, what is nearly 
equal in interest, species that have not been previously recorded as British. The 
genus Peziza consisting mainly of minute forms does not command the general 
interest of the members of the Club as do such genera as Agaricus, Boletus, and 
Polyporus, but for elegance of form, beauty of colour, and complexity of structure 
the Pezizw are not surpassed by the members of any other genus in the great 
family of Fungi. Iam hopeful therofore that the observant members of this Club 
will not overlook these smaller plants under the impression that size is the true 
indication of importance. Much good work has already been done by my friend 
Mr. Renny in the genus Ascobolus, several new species having been detected by 
him in this county and described in our transactions, and no doubt much more 
work remains to be done before We can consider we have exhausted the resources 
of this rich mycological district. 
My object on the present occasion is to call your attention to three species 
of Pezize discovered in the vicinity of Hereford by our esteemed president Dr. 
Chapman. The first is Peziza viridaria B and Br. originally described in the 
Ann and Mag. Nat. Hist. No. 555. This species was so named because it was 
found growing on the wall of a greenhouse at King’s Cliffe. The specimens 
collected by Dr. Chapman were found by him ona damp wall of the Hereford 
Asylum and given to me two years ago. The cups vary in size from 3 to 4 inch in 
diameter, they were seated on a thin lair of cottony mycelium spread on the sur< 
face of the plaster, and were of a watery brown colour. (See Cooke’s Handbook 
of British Fungi, vol. ii. p. 672, for a technical description of the species), Finding 
no published record of the occurrence of this fungus since 1845, I presume it is 
rare. 
The second species is Peziza Tectoria, Cooke. This was first described by 
Dr. Cooke in “ Grevillea” (a quarterly Journal of Cryptogamic Botany), vol. iii., 
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