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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Peziza. 
Adheres to wet decayed wood by a small central root; bright blue above, 
paler at the edge, and fringed with soft pale hairs; black and smooth oh 
the outside ; about a quarter of an inch over. Bolt. 
(Blue Peziza. E.) Under firs at Burk’s Hall, near Halifax. Oct. 
P. violate A. Hollow, violet-coloured within, border and outside 
whitish, granulated. 
Bull. 438. 4. 
Very minute, fleshy, brittle, smooth, sessile; the inside rough with black 
prominent dots. Bull. 
(Violet-coloured Peziza. E.) Found by Mr. Relhan on the bark of a 
beech tree, at White Wood, near Gamlingay. Sept. Oct. 
P. cine'rea. Grey, reflected: border lobed, waved and curled. 
(, Sowerhy 64. E.)— Batsch 137. 
When young circular or oblong, and more closed; when fully grown more 
expanded and irregular, when past maturity irregularly cushion-like with 
a pit in an imperfect disk, the edge with small lobes; lobes short, broad- 
ish. Edge between the elevated lobes between depressed and indented, 
and therefore appearing curled. Substance horny or semi-transparent, 
ash-coloured when moistish, the whole dark, but white when it begins to 
dry, and when dried membranaceous, dirty white. Batsch. 
(Lead-coloured Peziza. P. cinerea. Sowerby. Batsch. Pers. Purt. E.) 
Tremella cinerea. With. Ed. iii. Inside of decayed willows, and stumps 
of trees. A. July—Aug. 
P. polymoii'pha. (Lightf.) Turban-shaped, hollow, flat or convex 
with age, wrinkled on the outside; black above. 
Hedw. Stirp. ii. 6. E. — Batsch 50 — Bull. 116. 460. 1—( Soiveidiy 428. E ) 
■ — FI. Dan. 464— Schcejf. 158— Hall. Enum. 1. 8, at p. 21, Hist. 48. 8, at 
iii. p. 116— Hqffra. Crypt. 2. b. 2. 
Sometimes solitary, more frequently in clusters. When mature, it emits a 
very subtle black powder in great quantities from its upper surface, 
though Hoffman says the seeds are emitted from the under surface, which 
is not analogous to any other similar plant. (This remark appears to be 
confirmed by Sowerby, who concurs in the propriety of referring it to a 
distinct genus, which, as the capsules or pores contain eight seeds each, 
has been by Hedwig denominated Octospora. E.) It afterwards becomes 
more and more dilated, and at length plane or even convex with the edge 
rolled back, and in its latest stage variously wrinkled and deformed. On 
old trees which have been felled and are lying on the ground; frequent. 
Mr. "Woodward.—Well figured and described by the authors quoted 
above. Schseff. 153, also seems to be the plant in its unexpanded state. 
The substance resembles Caoutchouc or elastic rubber, but is rather 
adhesive. The top is black and shining like pitch. The figure an 
inverted cone, half an inch high, a quarter of an inch diameter at the 
bottom, half or one inch at the bottom, half or one inch at the top, fleshy, 
solid, brown on the outside. In an advanced stage this plant is black 
above, brownish underneath, or entirely black, thin, of an undulating 
surface, and sometimes two or three inches in diameter, having a very, 
different appearance to its young pear-shaped state. 
