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PEZIZA iERUGINOSA.
Verdigris-green Peziza.
Ci-ASS AND O e d e r C R Y P T O G A M IA FUNGI, L in « .— N a t . O r d . FUNGI, Link.
S e r i e s III. P h i a l e a T r i b e X . C a l t c i n . e , Fries.
G EN E R IC CHARAC TER .
Fileus stipitatus aut sessilis, plus minusve cupuliformis vel complanatws, tubulis
elmigatis sparuliferis in pagina superiore.
Pileus stipitate or sessile, dilated upwards into a cup-shaped or flattish receptacle,
with tubular, elongated sporuliferous cells in th e upper surr
face or disk.
S P E C IF IC CHARAC TER .
P eziza « ru g in o s a ; eeruginosa, turbinata, demmn expansa subflexuosa, stipite
brevi.
P. verdigris-green, turbinate, at length spreading, somewhat flexuose, the
stipes short.
P eziza asruginosa, Pers. Obs. Mycol. fasc. I. p. 2 7— Syn. Fung. p. 66S .~
Mycol. Europ. I. p. %Q\.—Fl. Dan. 1.1200. f. l.—Holmsk. v. 2. p. 2 8 .1 .12.
—Alb. et Schwein. p. 334.—Schum. Fl. Scell. 2. p. iSO.—Schmein. Fung.
Carol. No. 1230— Fries, Syst. 'Mycol. v. 2. p. 130.
P e ziza viridissima, &c. Hall. Helv. No. 2236.
H elvella ^ruginosa, Fl. Dan. t. 1260. f. 2.—Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 2. p. 24.—
Sow. Fung. t. 347— With. Bot. Arr. ed. 6. v. 4. p. 409.—Pers. Syn. p. 617.
—Purt. Midi. Fl. V. 3. p. 258.
H as. On dead h a lf rotten wood. Autumn. I t is not unfrequent in the
barren state, as shown by the colour o f the wood, b u t it rarely comes
to perfection.
Plant verdigris-green, staining the wood on which it grows to a considerable
depth of the same colour. Films or Cup 2-3 lines in breadth,
fleshy, glabrous, stipitate, at first turbinate, at length spreading, often
irregularly, somewhat waved, the margin occasionally b ent downwards.
Stipes 1-2 lines in height, cylindrical, dilated at the top. TheccB filiform.
Sporidia I have not seen.
A variety, or perhaps a state only of the plant, has the disk of a whitish
colour.