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PEZIZA SULPHUREA.
Minute yellow bristly Peziza.
Class and Obdeii CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Lííwj—Nat. Obd. FUNGI,
Link, Grev., &c.
Ge n e r i c c h a r a c t e r .
Pileus stipitatus aut sessilis, plus minusve cupuliformis vel complanatus, tubulis
elongatis sporuliferis in pagina superiore.
Pileus sessile or stipitate, dilated upwards into a variable cup-shaped or
flattish receptacle, having sporules contained in elongated tubes, whose
summits terminate on the superior surface.
S P E C IF IC CHABACTEB.
P eziza s u lp h u re a ; minuta, sessilis, gregaria; pileo globoso demum explánalo,
strigoso-kirsuto, sulphurea, hymenio albido.
P. minute, sessile, gregarious ; pileus globose, at length plane, strigoso-hir-
sute, sulphur-yeUow ; hymenium whitish.
P e z iz a sulphurea, Pers. Disp. Meth. Fung. p. 33.—Ejusd. Syn. p. 649—
Ejusd. Mycol. Europ. v. 1. p. 250.—Alb. et Schmein. Conspect. Fung. p. 319-
—Fries. Syst. Mycol. v. 2. 'p. 104.—Schwein. Syn. Fung. Carol. Sup.
No. 1189-— Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. 1. p. 665.— Grev. FI. Edin. ined.
P eziza albo-lutea, Pers. Icon, et Desc. Fung. p. 31. t. 8. f. 4 ,-5 .?
H ab. On the decaying stems of the larger herbaceous plants, in spring and
autumn, very frequent.
Plant gregarious, minute, at first globose and closed, at length expanded,
and in moist weather quite plane, hairy and strigose, of a pale or sulphur
yellow. Hymenium (disk) mostly white, but sometimes tinged
with yeUow or pink. Sporulferous tubes, slender, equal. Sporules
roundish.
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If the objects on which the cryptogamist bestows his attention
be thought inferior in dignity to those which occupy
the mind of the student of the higher orders of vegetation, it
must be acknowledged that tbe former has many advantages;
every season is favourable to his researches,—no situation so
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