
          (41.)

Helvella cochleata Hist. 99.

Spoon Helvella. a red variety. or else a new Species

Tab 41.

This Peziza I gathered in the Rivulet
at Grove Head in Soyland. I [It] grew on beds of
Washed sand which had been brought down
by the Torrents from the Moors above.

Was of a thick gross opaque friable substance
one sixth of an Inch thick at bottom thin
and irregularly Lobed at the Rim. The plants
while Young of a Globular figure. The colour [color]
constantly and invariably a dark heavy
brown purple. I have seen it in other
places on washed sand upon Moors,
the specimens here figured I gathered in
November 1776.

Peziza riparia

        