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“ Handbk.,” 1980; “Mycogr.,” f. 242; Pat., p. 169, f. 373. 
Helvella vesiculosa—Bolt., t. 175. Peziza lycoperdioides 
—D. C., “Flo. Fr.” ii. 87 (partly). Pustularia vesiculosa 
—Fckl, “Symb. Myco.,” p. 329; Sace., “ Myco. Ven. Sp.,” 
p. 167. Alewria vesiculosa—Gill, “Champ.,” p. 45. ¢. i. 
Exs.—Karst., “Fung. Fenn.,” 818; Phil., “ Elv. Brit.,” 
13; “Erb. Crit. Ital.,” 773; Sacc., “Myco. Ven.,” 733. 
On the ground, rich soil, manure heaps, rotten leaves, 
etc. Spring and autumn. 
Cup 1 to 3 inches broad, often ceespitose, sometimes 
repand. The base of the cup is very fleshy, and frequently 
projected into a short thick stem, covered with abundant 
white mycelium; the hymenium has a tendency to 
separate itself from the flesh of the cup at the bottom. 
Name— Vesicula, a little bladder. 
Midlands (Purton). Bungay (D. Stock). Fulham 
(Herb. Kew). Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 
Paddington (Herb. Kev). Pen-y-gwyrd, North Wales! 
Church Stretton! Minsterley, Salop! on manure in my 
garden! Carlisle (Dr. Carlyle). Near Bristol (Mr. Spencer 
Perceval). : 
42. Peziza cerea. Sow. 
Cups large, gregarious, cspitose, infundibuliform, 
repand, fleshy, very fragile; hymenium yellowish; ex- 
ternally furfuraceous, whitish, with a villous stem-like 
base; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 
20 X 94; paraphyses linear, enlarged upwards. 
Peziza cerea—Sow., “Fung.,” t. 3; Fries, “Sys. 
Myoo.,” ii. 52; “Eng. Flo.,” v. 188; Berk., “ Outl.,” p. 363 ; 
Price, fig. 80; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” 1979; “ Mycogr.,” 244; 
Karst., “Myco. Fenn,” p. 54; Bull, “Champ.” t. 44; 
Weinm., “Hym.,” 117; Kickx., “Crypt. Flan.” p. 495. 
Plicaria cerea—Fckl., “Symb. Myco.,” p. 327. Peziza 
vesiculosa, var. cerea—Rehm., “ Asco.,” 201. Aleuria 
cerea—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 44. 
Exs.—F ckl., “ F. Rh.,” 1225; Rehm., “ Asco.,” No. 201. 
On tan beds, on the ground amongst leaves, etc. 
Spring. 
