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sometimes so short as almost to appear sessile. Diameter 

 not uncommonly f ths of an inch. 



* * * * Stalked, externally rough, downy or hispid. 



18. P.virginea, gregarious, snow-white; stalk thickish, short, 

 p ileus woolly, cupped, the margin inflexed ; disk white. GREV. 

 FL Edin. 421. HOOK. Scot. ii. 33. P. nivea, Sow. Fung. t. 65. 



Hob. On decayed sticks in woods. Aut. 



The diameter of the pileus is generally about 1 line, some- 

 times more ; it is always concave and at first deeply cup- 

 ped. 



19. P. coccinea, funnel or cup shaped, tawny on the outside and 

 cottony, the disk a fine carmine ; margin smooth. WITH. iv. 383. 

 BOLT. Fung. t. 104. GREV. FL Edin. 421. Crypt. FL t. 171- 

 P. cyathoides, LIGHTF. Scot. 1052. P. epidendra, Sow. Fung. t. 13. 



Hob. In damp woods on decaying branches. Pease-bridge 

 Dean. Spring. 



In general about 1 inch in height, and of the same diameter. 

 It excels every other fungus I have seen in brilliancy and 

 beauty of colouring ; and appears at a season when there 

 is nothing to mar the effect produced by the contrast of its 

 scarlet cup with the dark green of the surrounding moss, 

 or the blackness of the stick on which it grows. It loves 

 the cool recesses of the woods, arid notwithstanding its ex- 

 ceeding beauty, has probably passed unnoticed by aH save 

 by the botanist. 



" The beauties of the wilderness are his, 

 That makes so gay the solitary place ; 

 Where no eye sees them." 



83. TYPHULA. 



1 . T. erythropus, tuber reddish-brown, smooth ; stalk filiform, 

 reddish-brown, slender, erect, smooth, terminated with a linear 

 white thickened apex or club GREV. Syn. 25. Phacorhiza ery- 

 thropus, GREV. Crypt. FL t. 43. FL Edin. 415. Clavaria erythro- 

 pus, PERS. Syn. 606. 



Hab. On sticks and straws in damp woods. Aut. 



