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i 5 . Peziza virginea: cluttered, ftalked, hemifpherical, 
white; externally downy. Frequent on decaying plants, 
rotten flumps, See. growing fometimes in a pendulous or 
reverfed pofture. The ftalk is fcarcely half a quarter of 
an inch in height; the cup about twice that diameter. 
Every part is white, and the outfide finely downy. 
17. Peziza flammea : fefiile, fprinkled, globofe, villous, 
bright red. This fungus at firft prefents a clofed globu¬ 
lar figure; afterwards the cup expands into an hemifphe- 
rical form ; it is about a line or a line and a half in 
diameter: its fubftance is black, but the membrane which 
invefts it is of brilliant fcarlet. The margin of the cup 
is fometimes crenate. It is chiefly found in autumn. 
This bright fpecies is (hown as it appears naturally at fig. 
7. and magnified at fig. 8. 
18. Peziza rufo-olivacea : folitary; fefiile; of around 
flattened form ; externally villous, covered with a ruft- 
coloured powder; the dilk of an olive-green. This 
Peziza is from one to three lines in diameter; its confid¬ 
ence between that of fiefh and wax ; foft, but not humid. 
The dilk, which is flat and open, changes its olive-green 
colour, when it gets old, to black. It is found during 
wet fummers in the months of June and July on the 
dead branches of rafpberry-buflies. It is fhown magni¬ 
fied at fig. 9. 
19. Peziza theleboloides : fo named from the Thelebo- 
lis, to which it aflimilates as much in form as in fruftifi- 
cation it does to the Peziza. It is pgrtly fcattered, partly 
gregarious; fefiile; firft round, then barrel-fliaped. Its 
diameter one or two lines, altitude the fame ; its colour 
firft white, then ranging from dark brown to bright yel¬ 
low ; it is ftudded with long Itiff fetse ; at firft horizontal, 
then eredt. It is chiefly found in rich earth or dung. 
See fig. 10, for the natural appearance of this fungus, 
which is magnified at fig. 11. 
IV. Pezizte glabrae. Entirely fmooth, or at lead not 
manifeftly downy, of a rather waxy texture ; moftly of 
a fmall fize; fome ftalked, others fefiile. 
20. Peziza firma: rather fcattered, leathery, pale- 
brown, cup-fltaped; at length dilated, wavy, and flat¬ 
tened ; ftalk longer than the cup, blackifh at the bafe. 
Said to be not uncommon in the damp recedes of moift 
woods, growing on dead flicks. The full-grown cup, 
when expanded nearly flat, is almoft an inch wide; its 
dific of a pale reddifh-brown, the outfide and internal 
fubftance of a light yellowifh hue. Stalk an inch high, 
rather (lender, fuelling upwards. The texture is leathery 
and elaftic; but by drying becomes hard, the whole plant 
fhrinking much. 
21. Peziza tuba: ftalked, entirely yellow, funnel- 
fhaped, deeply umbilicated, with a flat entire border ; 
ftalk thread-ftiaped. Found, by Mr. Bolton only, on 
rotten Hems of plants, in moift places near rills of water, 
growing rather difperfed. Each plant is about three 
quarters of an inch high, of a bright pale yellow, like a 
trumpet in minature, with a (lender, (lightly curved, ftalk. 
The dilk a quarter of an inch broad. 
22. Peziza citrina : crowded, entirely lemon-coloured, 
cup-fhaped, thick-edged; ftalk inverl'ely conical, the 
length of the cup. Found on rotten oak wood, in (hady 
places, in September. A pretty fpecies, growing in con- 
fiderable chillers, and confpicuous for its bright uniform 
lemon-hue. Its ufual diameter is a line, more or lefs ; 
and height about the fame. 
23. Peziza granulofa : fefiile, cluttered, reddifh-orange, 
flattifh ; externally paler, granulated and rugged. Per- 
foon mentions this as frequent in autumn upon cow-dung. 
The rugged or granulated outfide is a remarkable charac¬ 
ter. The difk is of a bright but pale orange-red, a line 
broad, with an inflexed margin, which finally difappears, 
and the whole becomes nearly flat. 
2+. Peziza confluens : fefiile, confluent, fomevvhat im¬ 
bricated, orange-coloured, flattifti, connedled by downy 
whitifh fibres. Found on the ground, in dry burnt-up 
I Z A. 
fpots, by Perfoon, the only author who mentions this 
Angular fpecies, which is among the (mailed, though, 
from its aggregate mode of growth, very confpicuous < 
The feeds, flying off like fmoke, have been obferved by 
its difcoverer. 
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V. Coriacete. More or lefs coriaceous, dry; either 
fmooth or powdery ; for the mod part fefiile. 
25. Peziza patellaria : cluttered, quite fefiile, flat, bor¬ 
dered, black, fomewhat coriaceous. Not uncommon, 
according to the authors cited, upon dead branches of 
lime and oak, forming patches, more or lefs fcattered, 
and entirely black. The plants appear like the (hields of 
a Lichen, but totally deftitute of a cruft. Each is fixed 
by copious fibrous roots, and is about the diameter of a 
fmall pin’s head; the dilk very flighty elevated, the mar¬ 
gin confiderably thickened, and rather raifed above the 
difk. 
26. Peziza pulveracea (Albertini and Schweiniz) 
is a fmall fungus, fcarcely meafuring a line in either di¬ 
rection. It grows numeroufly and gregarioufly, in dry 
birch-trees, but not connected in a tuft. It has a black 
conical ftalk, thicker above than below. The cup is 
hemifpherical, and thickly ftudded with a cinereous pow¬ 
der. At fig 12 we have (hown the fungus in its natural 
date, and its form is made obvious to the fight by the 
magnified fig. 13. Many obfeure and uncertain fpecies 
belong to this feCtion. 
VI. Stictides. Receptacle nearly membranous, dry, 
cup-(haped, funk into the furface of wood, with a pro¬ 
minent border. 
27. Peziza radiata: oval, immerfed, internally brown ; 
border prominent, fpreading, fnow-white. Inhabits the 
bark of dead branches of trees; found by Mr. Relhan at 
Whitwell, Cambridge(hire. Very confpicuous in confe- 
quenceofits white, lobed or notched, border. If Lin¬ 
naeus and Tode be correCt,' this fpecies difeharges the 
feeds elaftically, in the form of a ball; confequently it 
can have no right to be efteemed a Peziza, but belongs to 
a feparate genus. Hoffman, Sowerby, and Perfoon, have 
deferibed merely the empty receptacle. 
VII. Soi.ENi.ffi:. Receptacle nearly membranous, elonga¬ 
ted, bladder-like, hollow at the bafe. 
28. Peziza ochracea: rather crowded; flender-pear- 
fliaped, downy, yellow. Found on the old barks of trees, 
in rows or clutters, not much crowded, the plants not 
quite ereCt, very minute; but vifible by their variegated 
hue of orange and yellow. Each is tubular, white within ; 
the mouth much contracted. 
29. Peziza Candida: very (lender, cylindrical, fnow- 
white, with a revolute margin. Found on rotten wood. 
It feems even more minute than the preceding, front 
which, however, it is very diftinCt. 
PE'ZO DE RE'GA, a town of Portugal, in the pro¬ 
vince of Tras os Montes, a celebrated depot of port- 
wine : feven miles north-weft of Lamego. 
PE'ZOS, a town of Spain, in Alturia : forty miles w'eft 
of Oviedo. 
PEZ'RON (Paul), a learned French abbot, chronolo- 
gift, and antiquarian, was born at Hennebon in Bretagne, 
in the year 1639. He embraced the monadic life at the 
Ciftercian abbey des Prieres, in the year 1661, and was 
lent to purfue his (Indies at the college of the Bernardins, 
in Paris. Here he diftinguifhed himfelf by the unwea¬ 
ried afiiduity with which he applied to the acquifition of 
profane and facred literature. By his extraordinary pro¬ 
ficiency he fecured the efteem of the abbot, who made 
him his fecretary ; and it alfo procured for him the 
degree of bachelor of divinity from the faculty of 
Paris. In 1672, he returned to the monaltery des 
Prieres, where he was appointed matter of the no¬ 
vices, and fub- prior. Five years afterwards he was 
nominated fub-prior of the college of Bernardins, and 
about 
