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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Peziza. 
fully grown marked with zones of various colours, as green, grey, buff, 
yellow, purple, brown. Under surface (whilst young, the upper one) 
smooth, varying in colour from pale buff to deep yellow. From one to 
two inches wide, and about half as much in breadth. From the stems of 
grass and other substances with which it is often perforated, it must 
have had a gelatinous consistence in its younger state. 
(Woolly Auricui.aria. Ray Syn. p. 21. n. 2. Helvella villosa . Relh. 
Boletus auriformis. Bolt. Helvella acaulis. Huds. Aur. rejlexa. Sowerby. 
Purt. Thelephora hirsuta. Pers. E.) On stumps of trees and decayed 
wood, not uncommon. On old stumps of trees in woods frequent. Mr. 
Woodward. P. Jan.—Dec. 
Aur. tremelloi'des. (Bull.) Perennial: substance cartilaginous but 
gelatinous; woolly, spongy, grey brown above, smooth, pitted, 
violet-coloured underneath. 
Bull 290— {Sowerby 290. E .)—Bolt. 172— Mich. 66. 4. 
Bulliard says, that though it is mostly a portion of a circle, yet some¬ 
times the two edges unite, forming a cornucopia. Generally about two 
inches one way, and half as much the other. Bolton observes that 
his specimens were not cellular on the outside as represented by Bul¬ 
liard. The under surface often with a bloom of pale blue like that on 
plums. Gelatinous underneath. Mr. Knapp. Begins growing with the 
smooth surface upwards, but the edge afterwards turns over, and then it 
grows tiled to a great extent, in the manner of Boletus versicolor. It is a 
very common plant, and though mentioned by Ray, is not noticed in 
Hudson. Mr. Woodward. 
(Gelatinous Auricularia. Helvella mesenterica. Dickson. Aur. cor- 
rugata. Sowerby. Thelephora purpurea and mesenterica. Pers. Hook. 
E.) Tremella corrugata. Relh. n. 398. according to Dickson Fasc. 
ii. 28. On decayed wood and stumps of trees. On the earth at the 
edges of sawpits, and at the bottom of gate posts. Mr. Knapp. 
A. Jan—Dec. Relh—Oct. Nov. Mr. Knapp. 
PEZIZA.* Plant concave : Seeds on the upper surface only: 
discharged by jerks. 
With a Stem. 
P. niv'ea. Wholly white: stem slender: pileus glass-shaped. Dicks. 
Hall. 2339- 
{Sowerby 65. E.)— Mich. 86. 15. 
The young plants with their snow-white soft hairs contracted into a kind 
of globe resembling a Clathrus. Dickson. Not bigger than half a hemp- 
seed, thin as silk paper: and snow white. Mr. Stackhouse. About one- 
tenth of an inch in height, and the pileus nearly as much in breadth. 
(Snowy Peziza. P. virginea. Pers. Hook. E.) On trunks of dead trees. 
Dickson. Decayed wood and sticks. Relh. On moss on the trunks of 
apple trees; Powick, Worcester. Mr. Stackhouse. Aug.—Sept. 
Var. 2. Stem as long as the height of the pileus, very distinct from it: plant 
wholly white, hairless. 
Growing in clusters on a decayed stick, Packington. Autumn. 
* (From vita., the sole of the foot; described by Pliny, as fungi 44 qui sine radice aut 
pediculo nascuntur.” E.) 
