.: CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 1053 



Ic varies much in fize and figure, being found 

 . ■• from a quarter of an inch to two inches in 



■ ;;■. diameter, fometimes almoft flat, other times 



waved or finuated on the margins, and now- 

 and-then fupported on a very fliort coriaceous 

 footftalk. 

 "ic : The fubftance is waxen and friable.. 



We beheve the kind mentioned by Ray, under 

 |3, the name of Peziza lutea -par'va^ marginibus 



■•,.■ ' lavihus. (R. Synop. p. iS. n. i. and tah. 24, 

 ' ."— ~ Jig- 4- ofpofitepag. 479.) to be only a fmall yel- 

 low variety of that we have juft defcrib'd. 



fcutellataZ. P. plana, margine convexo pilofo. Sp. pi. 16^1, 



(Michel, gen. p. 207. /. 86./. 19. et fortafss 



Jig. 17. Raii fyncpf. pag. i8. n. y, et tab. 24. 



'^'-'l^r' ' /. 3. apud pag. 479. bona. Vaill. Paris, tab, 



I — 3./. ig, 14, i^c.bona. Oeder. Dan. tab. 469. 



.-r;f-'-j'' n. I. nomine falfo. Schaffer. fungi^ /. 284. opt.) 



■ . .'! -^ Hairy.edged Peziza. Anglis. 



■ On rotten wood, and old cow-dung, in fpring 

 ht'- '." and autumn. 



n ■;.'•■' , It is circular and feflile, and either flat or flightly 



r/ ( concave, about a quarter of an inch in diame- 



-:..':■ ', ter, generally of a fcarlet color, the outfide 



.! " hairy, and the margin ciliated with brown or 



black eredl hairs, the infide fmooth. 



When young, the mouth of the plant is clos'd, 



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