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i o o AN H ISTORY OF FUNGUSSES,
CXX. HELVE LLA nonJlipitata, cyathiformis margine obtufo ereSio.
Peziza cyathiformis margine obtufo ereSto. Sp. PI. 1651.
Scbaef. Fung. t. 148-_ Relhan Flor. p. 465. No. 967.
S C A R L E T HEL V E L L A $
T A B. I C.
'T^HIS beautiful Helvella adheres to the ground by a central
* root, confifting of a fmall tuft of black fibres;
^ The plant is about the thicknefs of a drefied iheep's ikin,
being of equal thicknefs in every part.. The margin obtufe,
it is paler than the upper furface of the plant, and is waved
and finuated, in a wild and very pleafing manner: The upjjer
furface is of a bright and high orange colour, in fome young
plants approaching to a bright fcarlet,
It varies greatly in ihape, fometimes being ipread flat upon
the ground, fometimes* the margin eredted on one fide and deprefled
on the other; fometimes feveral plants grow from the
fame point, and are rolled and crumpled one upon another;
generally the young plants are fmooth and entire on the margin,
and fhaped like the cup of an acorn. It varies in fize,
from an inch to four inches in diameter.
Grows on moift gravel which has; been lately turned up, in
garden walks, by road fides, &c. about Halifax. It emits a
fmoke on being irritated, like the reft of its congeners.
There is a crimfon Peziza, which has been confounded
with this plapt, as will be Teen in its proper place.