ELVELLACEI. 355 



On the ground, under trees. Spring. Street, Somerset. 

 Chichester. King's Lynn, etc. 



P. venosa, P. ; 1-2 in., cup sessile or sub-stipitate ; 

 umber-brown, externally whitish, rugose, with costate 

 veins; base produced into a very short stem, Cke. My coy. 

 f. 228. 



On the ground. Spring. Said to be esculent. King's 

 Cliffe. Sibbertoft. Apethorpe, etc. 



P. succosa, B. (263) ; 1 in. 



P. radula, B. and Br. (p. o6dt) ; 1 in. 



P. pustulata, P. (p. 364) A-U in. 



P. vesiculosa, Bull. (p. 364) ; 1-3 in. Epping 

 Forest, 



P. cerea, Suiv. (p, 363) ; 1-3 in, 



P. bufonia, P. ; cup hemispherical, often fragile ; 

 hymenium bright brown, externally warty, of the same 

 colour, margin entire or laterally incised ; rstem short, 

 rooting, becoming pallid, — Cke. Mycoy.f. 292. 



In moist woods, and on rubbish heaps. Grantham, 



P. purpurascens, P. ; \-\ in., cup sessile, campanu- 

 late, then expanded, conically attenuated to base, livid- 

 purple, glabrous, — Cke. Mycoy. f. 276, 



On the ground. Autumn. King's Lynn, 



P. tectoria, Cke. ; j-l| in,, cup sessile, or substipitate, 

 globose, afterwards expanded, applanate ; hymenium plane, 

 sub-umbilicate, pallid-ochraceous ; externally whitish, fur- 

 furaceous, becoming smooth, — Cke. Mycoy. f. 263, 



On damp plaster walls. Summer and autumn, Epping 

 Forest. Shrewsbury. Edinburgh, Marlborough, etc, 



P. ampliata, P. ; ^-1 in,, cup sessile, fleshy, fragile, 

 thin, expanding directly from the base, nearly cinnamon, 

 externally pallid, nearly smooth, — Cke. Mycoy. f. 384. 



