PEZIZA PUNCTIFORMIS.
Minute yellow Peziza.
C lass a n d O u d e h CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, L m n .— NAT . Ord. FUNGI,
Link, G)'ev.
GEN ERIC CHARACTER.
Pileus stipitatus aut sessilis, plus minusve cupuliformis vel camplanatis, cellulis
elongatis sporuliferis, in pagine superiore.
Pileus sessile or stipitate, dilated upwards into a variable, cup-shaped, or
flattish receptacle, having sporules contained in elongated cells, whose
summits terminate on the superior surface.
S PE C IF IC CHARACTER.
P e z iz a punctiformis; minutissima, gregaria, punctiformis, globosa, demum
explanata, margine crenulato.
P. yellow, very minute, gregarious, punctiform, globose, at length plane, the
margin crenulate.
P e z iz a punctiformis, Grev. FI. Edin.^ined.
H ab. On dead Oak and Beech leaves, &c. in moist woods. Autumn. Bal-
muto.
Bright yellow, but extremely minute, gregarious, globose at first, with a
small central opening, at length becoming quite plane, or even slightly
convex, the extreme margin very thin and crenulate. The substance of
the plant is carnose, and the centre rather thick for its size. The whole
is glabrous. Sporuliferous ce& linear-oblong. Sporules yellow, difficult
to be perceived.
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Were it not for a considerable number growing together,
this species might escape the eye of a practised mycologist. I
have met with it several times, and ascertained its characters
to be constant. It not unfrequently accompanies Phacidium
coronatum and Sclerotium quercinum.
Fig. 1. Plants on an Oak leaf, nat. size,
nfied. Fig. 3. Sporuliferous cells.
Fig. 2. Plants in different states, mag