TAB. XXIII.
LYCOPERDON hydrophorum.
PEZIZA hydrophora. Bulliard t. 410.
This is evidently next akin to the L. Carpobolus. We have found it annually for three years past in August and September, on the decaying trunk of a willow near Tothill-Fields.
In a young state it is somewhat depressed, a little woolly; afterwards becoming rounder, and finally projecting the ball, much as in the preceding species. We have indeed been able to detect it only on the edge of the red outer case, which in this species does not split into rays; but we find many empty cups or cases, from which doubtless the balls have been thrown to a distance.
TAB. XXIV.
PEZIZA scutellata. With. vol. 3. 442.
Found, not very unfrequently, in the rotten parts of hollow trees. The hairs in this are black. There is an English Peziza found on cow-dung (Elvella equina, Flo. Dan. t. 1329), which though smaller in all its parts, paler, and ciliated with hairs of the same colour as the disk, seems to be a variety of this. There are some without hairs, but we doubt whether that can make a specific distinction. See Lightf. Flo. Scot. 1053.
TAB. XXV.
AURICULARIA tabacina.
A. Nicotiana. Bolton 174. With. vol. 3. 433.
Common in woods and many other places, on stumps and branches of decaying trees. It is thin and flexible, attached by the back, the upper part projecting, a little rugged and zoned, and either growing in an imbricated manner, or forming elegant undulations, from three or four inches to two or three feet in extent, made more conspicuous by the light yellow margin being contrasted with the bright, and often nearly red, brown of the upper and under side. It thrives most in damp places or in wet weather, sometimes exuding reddish drops (possibly coloured with the seeds) from the under surface. In drying it becomes shrivelled and loses all its original splendor, and may then be compared to dried tobacco, to which we suppose the name Nicotiana was meant to allude.
