CXXVI. PEZIZA fubjìipitata campanulata, interne creméjìno~ externe
decima. carneo, margine ìntegro nudo attenuato* :
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/ j p H I S plarit, and the Ehella coceinea, figured by Shaeffer,
. /. 148, and by me, /. 100, have been confidered by moil
authors as varieties of the fame fpecies; and their fynonima are
fo confounded together, by the publiihers of Floras, that it is
next to impofiible to afcertain properly, which of them belong,
to the one and which to the other. Tn the liehella coecinea, the
plant is of equal thicknefs throughout the margin blunt or obtufe
i the colour is an high orange or bright fcarlet on the upper
fide, and of the fame colour, only a little paler, on the outfide.
Grows fometimes to be three or four inches in breadth,
and of various,-irregular ihapesj is of a friable,\brittle fubilance,_
and found molt frequently upon gravel and, above all,
eje&s its feeds in form of fmoke.
In the Peziza coccinea now before me, the fubilance of the
plant is thickeft in the middle, growing thinner to the margin;
the^colour, in the in fide of the cup, is a glowing crimen, inclining
tô a bloody hue5 the outlide .a pale carnati'on colour or
a pure white. The largetl fpecimens are'about'an inch in
diameter, and moil commonly of a regular bell-ihape. The
fubilance is firm and tough, and it is found on old flicks; or
the branches of dead trees, and never ejects its feeds in form
of fmoke. I have *feen a ilalked variety of it perfedly white
on the outfide, as at A . B. A full-grown plant is cut perpendicularly,
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Grows about rivulets, in woods about Halifax, plentifully,
in Autumn and Winter.