35G OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUNGOLOGY. 



On rotting wood, and bark of oak, poplar, etc. Autumn 

 and winter. Hereford. Guildford. Kew, etc. 

 P. cribrosa, Grev. (p. 372) ; ^-1 in. 

 P. tuberosa, Bull. (p. 365) ; i-l in. 



P. radiculata, Soiv. (p. 367); l-\\ in. Epping 

 Forest. 



P. coccinea, J acq. (p. 367) ; 1 in. Epping Forest. 

 P. cerium, Weherb ; \-\\ in.; cups stipitate, waxy, 

 when dry sub-coriaceous, saucer-shape, becoming expanded, 

 sometimes laterally compressed ; black ; externally velvety ; 

 stem equal or thickened below, deeply sulcate or subrugose, 

 glabrous, paler at base. Cke. Mijcorj. f. 187. 



On the ground on sandy soil. Spring. North Wootton. 

 P. bulbosa, Heclw. ; \-\ in. ; cups hemispherical, 

 becoming expanded, waxy, when dry subcoriaceous, cineres- 

 cent, minutely squamulose ; hymenium blackish brown \ 

 stem firm, rather slender, arising from a tuberform base. 

 On sandy soil. Summer and autumn. King's Lynn. 

 P. cocotina, Cke. ; 1 in. ; cups rooting, fleshy, hemis- 

 pherical, becoming applanate, margin entire ; hymenium 

 pale orange ; externally, together with the stem, whitish 

 tomeutose. — Cke. Mycog. f. 356. 



On cocoa-nut fibre in a caterpillar-cage, and on sawdust, 

 October. Epping Forest. Edinburgh. Brandon, etc. 

 P. macropus, P. (p. 365) ; 1-2 in. Epping Forest. 

 P. sepulta, Fr. (p. 365) ; 1-2 in. 



P. hemispherica, Jlef/f/. (p. oG7) ; ^-2iu. Epping 

 Forest. 



P. Sumneriana, Cke. 1-2 in.; cup large, scattered 

 waxy, sessile, at first globose, immersed, then partly 

 expo!^ed, becoming expanded, the margin splitting int(/ 

 irregular lobes ; externally chestnut-brown, covered with 



