s connivent and submembranaceous. Stipes tapering downwards gra-
duaUy from the cnp, h a lf an inch to an inch in length, firm, solid. The
extenor of both cup and stipes is whitish, and covered with a short tomentose
substance. Spondia large oval, mostly eight in each tubular
ceil (or theca).
P eziza coccinea is really entitled to be called a splendid
iungus, and, in point of beauty, to be placed first on a list of
above 330 species, many of wbicb are of exquisite form and colour.
T ie interior of tbe cup is of tbe finest carmine, the outer
surface white and tomentose. Without much poetical exagge-
lation tins beautiful P eziza seems to be clothed with a fur
robe, lined with the richest velvet. So striking, indeed, is its
appeaiaiice, that I have had specimens brought to me by indi-
vidiials of the lower classes, solely on account of the splendour
0Í their colour.
It is a variable plant in regard to size. The larger figures
on the plate exceed considerably the usual dimensions, though
in favourable situations I have seen them more than once
equally luxuriant.
L i g h t f o o t , in whose Flora I find the first notice of its
being a Scottish plant, has evidently two species confounded
togeriier, our present one and P. aurantia: this fact my friend
M l P u r t o n has noticed in his Midland Flora.
qfgrorvth, natural she. f i g . 2. A plant di-
m e . I g . 3. A small portion o f the hymenium. Fig. 4 . Thecae. Fio- 5
Spondia— The three last magnifed. '