P E Z IZ A PLUMBEA.
Bluish-grey Peziza.
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C l a s s a n d O b d e b CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, iin n .—.N a t . Obd. F V N G I, Jms.
De Cand. Hooki Link, Grev.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Pileus stipitatus aut sessilis, majus minusve cupuliformis vel complanatis, celluUs
elongaiis sporuliferis, in pagina superiore.
Pileus sessile or stipitated, dilated upwards into a variably cup-shaped or flat
receptacle, having sporules contained in elongated cells, whose summits
terminate on the superior surface.
s p e c i f i c c h a r a c t e r .
P eziza plumbea, sessilis, minuta, gregaria, carnosa, depressa, fuscoMÌlivacea,
villosa, hymenio Itevi plumbeo.
P. sessile, minute, gregarious, fleshy, depressed, brownish-olive, villose, with
a smooth bluish-grey hymenium, (fructifying surface or disk).
H ab. On rotten wood, sticks and chips, in damp woods. Autumn.
Plants minute, gregarious, depressed, rather globular when very young, concave,
becoming at length plane, with a thin and slightly raised margin
turning somewhat inwards. Substance brittle, fleshy, b u t not thick.
Barren or inferior surface of the pileus, villous, brownish-olive. Hyménium
or disk, bluish or grey, smooth. Tubular cells containing the sporules,
filiform, cylindrical. Sporules few, indistinct.
There are few genera of Fungi, perhaps, in which a greater
number of species remain to be discovered than in Peziza.
The minute ones are scarcely to be understood by mere description,
and can only be satisfactorily made known by coloured
representations, few of which are as yet before the public.
Fig. 1. Plants o f Peziza plumbea, nat. size. Pig. Z. Ditto magnified. Fig. 3.
Tubular cells containing the sporules,— highly magnified.