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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Peziza. 
(Liver-coloured Peziza. E.) In woods on the ground amongst moss. 
Autumn. Batsch. Mr. Relhan lately informed me that he had found this 
species at Wood Ditton. 
P. punPcea. (Batsch.) Flatfish, yellow red within, paler on the 
outside; edge thick, hut little raised. 
Batsch. 220—{Purt. 25. E.) 
Substance hard and horny, thin, pale red, neither woolly nor hairy, wrinkled 
on the upper surface ; brittle when dry. 
(The presence or absence of a stem appears to furnish no invariable 
characteristic in this genus. Purton remarks that this species is usually 
found in a sessile state. E.) 
(Pale Orange Peziza. E.) Found by Mr. Relhan amongst the leaves of 
the Bryum murale, on old walls at Ditton, Cambridgeshire. On half 
decayed sticks atEdgbaston. 7th Oct. 1791. 
P. scutella'ta. Flat, orange red; border raised, hairy. 
Bolt. 108— Bull. 10, and 438.2— Soiverhy 24— Batsch 54— Hedw. Stirp.n. 
3. A. 1 to 7—( Hoffm. Crypt, ii. 7. 3. 1tt.)—Schceff. 284— Ray Syn. 24. 3, 
atp. 479— Vaill. 13. 13 —Mich. 86. 19 and 17. 
Orange red within, buff on the outside, hairy at the edge ; about one-eighth 
or one-tenth of an inch over, when young like a goblet, flatter with age, 
but the edge still turned up. 
(Fringed Shielded Peziza. P. scutellata. Linn. Sowerby. Huds. Lightf. 
Bull. Bolt. Batsch. Pers. Hook. Purt. Elvela ciliata. SchaefF. E.) On 
cow dung, common ; also on decayed wood. March. Oct. 
Yar. 2. Smooth at the edge. 
Bull. 438. 3. 
Stemless; orange-coloured, nearly flat, not fringed at the edge, a quarter of 
an inch diameter. 
P.fulva. Huds. and With. Ed. ii. On cow dung and amongst moss on a 
clayey soil, Edgbaston, common. Aug. Sept. 
Var. 3. Woolly and white on the outside. 
Soiverhy 17— Bull. 410. 3. 
Bulliard observes that the pileus closes in dry and opens in wet weather. 
Flat, blood red, hairy; sometimes as large as a sixpence. Mr. Stackhouse. 
Specimen, and a beautiful drawing of it, sent to me by Mr. Knapp, who 
found it on dead sticks in a wood in Buckinghamshire. On bogs, Corn¬ 
wall. 
P. vesiculo'sa. (Bull.) Large, bladder-shaped, thin, brittle, dull 
yellow. 
Bull. 44. and 457. 1— {Grev. Scot. Crypt. 107. E .)—Soiverhy 3 and 4— Bolt. 
115—Seinef. 280. 
Nearly globular when young, the opening at the top enlarging as it grows 
older, but the edge is always turned in. The root is a dark-coloured hard 
knotty substance. The plant from two to three inches diameter, or more, 
and nearly as much in height; the substance smooth, moist, tender, brit¬ 
tle, dull ochrey yellow within, paler without, and the surface granulated. 
Bolton. Approaches nearly to P. cochlcata , but does not tear like that, 
and if accidentally torn does not curl in spirally, neither does it jerk out 
its seeds like that species. Bulliard. 
