CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Peziza. 
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(Bladder Peziza. P. vesiculosa. Sowerby. Bull. Pers. Hook. Purt. P. 
Marsupium. Pers. Helvella vesiculosa. Bolt. Elvela pyxidata. SchaefF. E.) 
P. cerea. Bull, and Sowerby, but the latter considers his pi. 3 to be 
really distinct from pi. 4. On the ground on road sides, or on dunghills. 
Spring and Autumn. 
P. lanuginosa. Egg-shaped, woolly without, smooth and buff within. 
FI. Dan. 779. 2. 
This grows in large clusters, each plant when young and about the size of 
a small pea, egg-shaped, and entirely covered with pale brown wool on 
the outside; the aperture at the top at first small, smooth, conical. 
Advancing in growth it becomes more flat and open, so as to form a deep 
saucer-like cup. Substance very tough, and cuts like hard leather. 
Varies in size from that of a pin’s head to a quarter and even half an inch 
diameter. 
(Woolly Peziza. E.) P. minuta. Hickson. On half decayed sticks, plan¬ 
tations, Edgbaston. Sept. Oct. 
P. his^pida. (Huds.) Hemispherical, brown and rough with hairs 
without, smooth and sea-green within. 
Bull. 204 —(Hoffin. Crypt, ii. 7. 6. E.)— Scheeff. 151 — FI. Dan. 656. 1 — 
Mich. 86. 4— Gled. 2, Elvella , f. 8 —(Sowerby 147. E.) 
Stemless, solitary or in clusters, leathery. Pileus concave, hemispherical, 
blue white within, smooth; brownish and hairy on the outside, uneven 
and hairy at the edge; about half an inch over. Schaeffer. The internal 
surface nearly white, and perfectly smooth; the external thickly set with 
short, rigid, brownish hairs. Diameter sometimes as much as two inches: 
it is thin, brittle, semi-transparent, nearly flat, but the edge turned up 
and cooping in. 
(Hispid Peziza. According to Purton this plant is scarcely distinct 
from the preceding, though differing in size and habit. As synonyms 
that author refers to P. lanuginosa. Bull. 396. f. 2. P. hispida. Relh. 
Huds. P. liirsuta. Holmsk. t. 19. P. labellum. Bull. 204. var. P. car - 
nosa. Bull. 396. f. 1. var. P. papillaris. Bull. 467. f. 1. var. P. minuta. 
Dicks. P. hoemispherica. Pers. Hoffm. Crypt, fasc. 2. f. 7. Elvela albida. 
Schaeff 151. E.) Frequent near Bungay. Mr. Woodward. Moistish 
woods, hedges, moist decayed wood, and gravel pits. Sept. —Oct. 
P. vir'idis. (Bolt.) Concave, dark green, the edge turned in; pale 
green and woolly without. 
Bolt. 109. 1— Bull. 376. 4. 
The size of a large pin’s head; dark green, with a thick black border. 
Bolton. The black border does not always exist. 
(Green Peziza. E.) On decayed oak leaves, and on rotten wood or sticks. 
In the park at Packington. Autumn. 
(Some confusion appears to attend the references of this fungus. Greviile 
considers Bolt. 109. 1. to represent another plant, Phacidium coronatuni ; 
(vid. note to Quercus ,) which, as growing on leaves alone, and P. viridis 
occasionally on decayed wood, may possibly prove distinct. E.) 
P. casruTea. (Bolt.) Blue ; fringed at the edge. 
Bolt. 108. 2. 
