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Fungus Meeting of the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland held at 
Edinburgh in October, 1878, in the excursion to Penicuik, I 
found a specimen of what I took to be this fungus growing upon an 
oak stick, while in company with the Rev. John Stevenson. Un- 
fortunately this specimen, which consisted of two or three cups, was 
lost—it fell out of the basket during the excursion—so that I was 
never able to be certain of its identity. At Exeter, however, several 
specimens were found upon birch and oak, by both Mr. Rea and 
myself. Itis only in the young stage that the white tomentose exterior 
is visible. In the early stages it at first reminds one, as Fries indicates, 
of a Bulgaria or Exidia recisa. He goes further in suggesting 
Sowerby’s figure of Peziza radiculata, t.114. As the plant grows, 
it soon loses its cupulate or obconic form ; flattening out, it becomes 
disc-shaped, but very soon convex. The upper surface is then 
thrown into folds, and the plant becomes what is often called 
Tremella torta Willd , although the true J. torta is a much smaller 
fungus. ‘Ihe evanescence of the white tomentum and the rapid 
loss of its cup-shaped form are the reasons this interesting fungus 
has been so long overlooked by usin Great Britain, —-C.B.P; 
