Histoire des Champignons de la France, Vol 2

PLANT OF FRANCE.

A botanical engraving depicts two pieces of dark, decaying wood. The left piece hosts several small, orange, cup-shaped fungi. The right piece shows a smaller cluster of the same fungi. Below the wood, four individual fungi are labeled A, B, H, and C, D, showing various angles and magnifications.

Peziza planiusculè scutellata [somewhat flat, shield-shaped], unicolor [single color], aurantica [orange], pronâ parte pilis nigricantibus hispidula [underside slightly bristly with blackish hairs].

Peziza aurantiaca. HABIT; these small mushrooms are 1 to 3 lines in diameter, and approximately 1/4 of a line in thickness. They resemble small, shallow saucers; they are a beautiful orange color, smooth and somewhat shiny on the inside, and fringed with blackish hairs on the outside. Their flesh is slightly wine-colored, with a tight and smooth tissue. They have a slightly fungal flavor. They are found in June and July, attached directly to old rotten stumps.

OBSERV. is it Peziza scutellata L.S.P. 1651? Fungoides which fungus... Vail, fig. 13, 14 Tab. XIII. If so, the descriptions of Linnaeus and Vaillant, and the figures of the latter, are defective. Furthermore, it is appropriate to change the name 'scutellata', which applies equally to 6 or 7 other species of the same genus found in FRANCE.
These observations are by M. RICHARD, who communicated this plant to me.

N. B. Figs. A, B, C, D represent PEZIZAS drawn under a magnifying glass. Fig. C represents one seen from below; Fig. H is one at natural size.