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p. 119, from a specimen in the Herbarium of the British Museum sent by me 
seven years ago to the office of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, and referred by the 
Editors at the time to P. viridaria B and B. There is a great similarity between 
these two species, both grow in similar situations, and often in company. It was 
found by Dr. Chapman in the Asylum on the damp wall before alluded to, which 
the Dr. tells me in a spirit of unscientific glee unbecoming the president of our 
distinguished Club, he has succeeded in rendering perfectly dry, so that it will 
produce no more fungi! The cups of this species measure from one inch to one 
and three-quarters of an inch across, have a short stem, are rough outside with 
coarse granules, which drop off in old age, and spring up from a web of mycelium 
overspreading the plaster. For the minute points of difference warranting Dr. 
Cooke in regarding this as distinct from P. viridaria, I must refer you to the 
description in Grevillea and the drawings now placed before you. 
The third species I regard as by far the most interesting addition to the 
Herefordshire Flora on account of its being a rediscovery of a plant after a lapse 
of more than half a century ; it is Peziza domestica, Sow. Its history is as follows : 
In Sowerby’s great work on British Fungi, published in 1809—a work, of which as 
Englishmen we may well be proud, very costly and scarce—is figured P. domestica, 
accompanied with the following description of its place and mode of growth on 
damp walls :—‘‘It first clothes the places that have been wetted with a fine 
cottony or membranaceous film nearly as white as the plaster, which is in a short 
time partly covered with salmon-coloured knobs. These at length form a kind of 
upright Peziza externally villous.” Sow. The illustrious Fries, in his Systema, 
vol. ii., p. 107, places it in the section Tapesia, but afterwards in the Elenchus he 
appears to have considered that it was very closely allied to P. diversicolor which 
stands in the section Sarcoscyphae. The Rev. M. J. Berkeley knowing the species 
of Sowerby more intimately retained it in Yapesia in the fifth vol. of “English 
Flora,” appending the following remark : “‘ The dried specimens do not retain any 
of their villosity, which consequently though represented as erect must be ex- 
tremely delicate. I have thought proper therefore to retain it for the present in 
the place originally assigned by Fries, notwithstanding the fresh observations in 
the Elenchus as to its identity with P. diversicolor.” I am able to say after a 
careful and leisurely examination of Sowerby’s original specimens kindly per- 
mitted me by the Rev, M. J. Berkeley that the propriety of the views expressed 
above and the course he there took are fully justified. To me it is evident that 
Fries being guided by Sowerby’s figure not having seen the plant itself mistook the 
character of the hairs (if such they can be called) clothing the cup. Having regard 
to the figure they appear rigid and coloured, somewhat like those of P. stercorea, 
P., whereas they must have been very slender, delicate, colourless and deciduous, 
similar to those found on P. ascoboloides, Bert. and P. subhirsuta. Such hairs are 
often absent in dried specimens, especially when they have been long in the herba- 
rium. The propriety of retaining it in the section Zapesia is fully warranted, for 
even to this day the cottony subiculum surrounds the base of the cup and when 
fresh must have been nearly as conspicuous as in P. cesia. The specimens of this 
