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P E Z I Z A P ersoonii.
Persoon’s P e z iz a .
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S e r i e s I I I . P h i a l e a — T r i b . IX. H y m e n o s c y p h ì e Fries.
G EN E R IC CHARACTER.
Pileus stipitatus aut sessilis, plus mimisve cupuliformis vel complanaius, tubulis
ehngatis sporuVferis in pagina superiore.
Pileus stipitate or sessile, dilated into a more or less cup-shaped or flattish
receptacle, with tubular elongated sporuliferous cells in the upper surface
or disk.
S P E C IF IC CHARAC TER .
P e z i z a Persoonii ; cupiila ceracea, glaberrima, urceolata, aurantiaca, margine
prominente, membranaceo, pallido; stipite cylindrico roseo.
P. cup (or pileus) smooth, urceolate, orange colour, with a prominent, membranaceous,
pale margin ; stipes cylindrical, pink.
P e z i z a Persoonii, Moug. in Pers. Mycol. Europ. 1 . p. 288. 1. 12. f. 1 . Fries,
Syst. Mycol. v. 2. p. 12 1 .
P e z i z a Equiseti, Fries, MSS.
L y c o p e r d o n Equiseti, Hoffm. Veg. Cr. II. p. 17 . t. 5. f. 1 .
H a d . Bogs and moist places, parasitic on dead stems of various species o f
Fquisetum. Autumn. Duddingston Loch, near Edinburgh, abundantly
Very small, gregarious. Pileus or cup roundish, urceolate, a line a t most
in diameter, often less, smooth, wax-like, semipellucid, fine orange colour,
with a membranaceous whitish margin, which is erect and prominent,
and in old specimens often lacerated or irregular. Stipes scarcely
a line high, cylindrical, smooth, pale rose-pink, attenuated at the base.
Sporidia oval.
This exceedingly beautiful and unconimon species lias been
named after tbe Father of systematic Mycology, the celebrated
P e r s o o n , by my excellent friend Dr M o u g e o t . Thus distinguished,
it appeared in P e r s o o n ’s Mycologia Europ®a, and
soon after in the second volume of the hitherto unrivalled Sys-
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