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CRYPTOG AMI A. FUNGI. Peziza. 
Shaped like a butter-boat. Mr. Stackhouse. This plant is most excellently- 
figured by Bolton. The colour is usually a bright deep orange above, 
and a dirty orange or yellow beneath, in which it differs from Bolt. 104, 
which is always a rich scarlet within, and white and silvery without. It 
differs also in being irregular in shape, never cup-shaped, except when 
very young, whilst the other is always exactly cup-shaped, and stands 
on a short pedicle. Whether Hudson’s cyathoides be the elegant and 
very uncommon plant figured by Bolton 104, seems doubtful, neither 
Dillenius’s fig. nor short description in the Synopsis at all elucidate the 
matter, and it certainly can never be called yeilow. The first of these is 
rather scarce, but the other is very common on decayed sticks under 
hedges in the spring. Bolton is mistaken in asserting that his 104 never 
emits any powder from its internal surface, for I have repeatedly, by a 
slight irritation, caused the mature plants to throw out clouds of smoke. 
It ought, therefore, according to his principles, to have been placed with 
the Helvellse. Mr. Woodward. Thinner, more spreading, and more 
irregularly cupped than the preceding: sometimes quite sessile, with a 
small, nearly central root; sometimes the root a large black knob, at 
others forming a short stem. 
Helvetia coccinea. Bolt. P. coccinea. Bull. On the ground amongst gravel 
and road sides ; when it resembles the most sessile of the figures. I once 
found it on the stump of a tree, with more of a stem and less spread out, 
forming the connection between the two varieties. 
Malvern Hill, and Coplar Hill, amongst wet moss. Mr. Stackhouse. (In 
the garden at the Larches. E.) 
P. tt/ba. Plant yellow: stem thread-shaped: border flat. 
Bolt. 106* 1. 
See Merulius tuhoeformis , p. 146. 
P. inflex'a. (Bolt.) Stem crooked; pileus funnel-shaped, fringed at 
the edge, pale buff'. 
Bolt. 106. 2 — (Sowerby 3 06. E.)— Mich. 86. 13. 
Stem white, pellucid, always bent. Pileus pale buff within, funnel-shaped, 
fringed at the edge. Whole plant about half an inch high. Bolton. 
(Inflexed Fringed Peziza. P. radiata. Pers. E.) On decayed vegetables 
in damp places in woods and about rivulets. In Madingley Wood, Cam¬ 
bridgeshire. Mr. Relhan. 
P. ochroleu'ca. (Bolt.) Stem black at the bottom: pileus funnel- 
shaped, dirty yellow within. 
Bolt. 105. 1— (Sowerby 115. E.) 
Plant hard and leathery. Stem solid, black below, dusky yellow above, near 
half an inch high, thick as a large pin. Pileus funnel-shaped, oclirey 
yellow within, smooth, even at the edge, about a quarter of an inch over. 
Bolton. 
(Yellow-brown Peziza. P. ochroleuca. Sowerby. Purt. P.firrrta. Pers. 
E.) Near Halifax in several places. 
P. cyathoides. Stem short: pileus yellow, glass-shaped, border blunt, 
upright. 
(Sowerby 369. 4. E.)—iL Syn, 84. 4, at jp t 478. 
