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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Pez'xza repanda. Wahl. 



Repanda means bent backward. These plants are found in dark moist woods, 

 growing on old, wet logs, or in well wooded earth. The cups are clustered or 

 scattered, subsessile, contracted into a short, stout, stem-like base. When very- 

 small they appear like a tiny white knot on the surface of the log. This grows, so 

 that soon a hollow sphere with an opening at the top is produced. The plant 

 now begins to expand and flatten, producing an irregular, flattened disk with 

 small upturned edges. The margin often becomes split and wavy, sometimes 

 drooping and revolute ; disk pale or dark brown, more or less wrinkled toward 

 the center ; externally the cup is a scurvy-white. The asci are 8-spored, quite 

 large. The paraphyses are few, short, separate, clavate, and brownish . at the 



tips. The spores 

 are elliptical, thin- 

 walled, hyaline, 

 non-nucleate, 14X 



Found from May 

 to October. Edible. 



Figure 432. Peziza vesiculosa. 



Photo by C. G. Lloyd. 



Peziza vesiculosa. 

 Bull. 



The Bladdery Pe- 

 ziza. Edibee. 



Often in thick 

 clusters. Those in 

 the center are fre- 

 quently distorted 

 by mutual pres- 

 sure ; large, entire, 

 sessible, at first 

 globose ; closed at 

 first, then expand- 

 ing ; the margin of 

 the cup more or 

 less incurved, 

 sometimes slightly 

 notched ; disk pal- 

 lid-brown, exter- 

 nally ; surface is 



