CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Peziza. 
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(Citron-coloured Peziza. P. citrina. Sowerby. Pers. Part. E.) Found 
by Dr. Sibthorpe oil decayed wood in Shotover plantations. Sept.—Oct. 
(P. equise'ti. Pileus smooth, urceolate, orange-colour, with a promi¬ 
nent, membranaceous, pale margin; stem cylindrical, pink. 
Grev. Scot. Crypt. 162. 
Very small, gregarious. Pileus a line in diameter, wax-like, with a mem¬ 
branaceous whitish margin, which is erect and prominent. Stem scarcely 
a line high, attenuated at the base. 
Mare’s-tail Peziza. Lycoperdon equiseti. Hoff in. Peziza equiseti. Fries. 
P. Per soon ii. Moug. Grev. 
An exceedingly beautiful and uncommon species, parasitic on dead stems 
of various species of Equisetum. Abundant at Duddingston Loch, near 
Edinburgh. Grev. Scot. Crypt. E.) 
P. undula'ta. (Bolt.) Stem hollow, gradually expanding into a fun¬ 
nel-shaped pileus: red yellow and veined on the outside, rich 
brown within. 
Bull. 461— Schcejf. 157. 2— Bolt. 10.5. 2. 
Plant about one inch and a quarter high. Pileus three-fourths of an inch 
over, marked with a few almost imperceptible veins on the outside, 
smooth within, waved and curled at the edge. Bolton. Schaeffer has 
figured this plant extremely well, and calls it an Helvella; but out of 
the numerous figures in the 157th plate, Bolton refers only to fig. 2. 
though Schaeffer makes no distinction. Batsch refers to Schaeffer’s plate, 
without restriction, as his Agaricus aurora, which he himself has figured, 
though indifferently, pi. 9. f. 36. Bulliard calls it Helvella tubceformis, 
and makes also an unlimited reference to Schaffer 157. The plants repre¬ 
sented by Bulliard are much larger than those of Bolton, and the gill-like 
veins much more distinctly marked. I believe this species is neither an 
Agaric, an Helvella, nor a Peziza, but more properly belonging to the 
genus Merulius. 
(Wavy-edged Peziza. E.) In woods, but not common. Oct. 
P. coccin'ea. Stem buff: pileus glass-shaped, crimson within, buff on 
the outside. 
Bull. 467— Bolt. 104— Sowerby 12 and 78— Walcot, P. cyaihoides — -Jacq, 
Austr. 163-— Battar. 3. JSf. O . — Penn. Wales — Mich. 86. 5. 
Root short, white within. Stem, solid, from one-tenth to half an inch high ; 
thick as a crow or a goose quill. Pileus thin, cupped, rather elastic, but 
brittle, deep carmine colour within, buffy underneath, with mealy gra¬ 
nulations. 
(Scarlet Peziza. P. aurantia. Pers. Hook. E.) P. epidendra. Bull, and 
Sowerby; (the latter observer still thinks it a distinct species. E.) by 
mistake called pi. 13. in the text. On decayed sticks in woods and wet 
hedge bottoms, with a north or eastern exposure. Mr. W oodward. 
Spring—Autumn. 
Var. 2. Irregularly cupped, border waved, scarlet within, buffy or whitish 
browm on the outsides, stem none, but a hard, black knotty root. 
Bull. 474— -Bolt. 100— Schceffl 141— FI. Dan. 657. 2— Batsch 158. 
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