Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms

PEZIZA CEREA Wax-like cup fungus Bulliard t.

SURELY sufficiently distinct from vesiculosa & cochleata, as the two following plates will show. It is found on tan-beds Beds of waste oak bark used for heating greenhouses.

PEZIZA VESICULOSA Bladder-like cup fungus Bulliard t. 457.

VERY common on exposed dung-hills. It may have been passed over for P. cochleata, which is rather more rare, and affects a different situation. It is easily distinguished from cerea & cochleata by being found more or less composed of an inner and outer cup (see the perpendicular section), between which the fructification fructification: the reproductive parts of a fungus seems to be produced.

PEZIZA COCHLEATA Snail-shell-like cup fungus Linn. & Huds.

THIS is certainly distinct from the two preceding. It grows in woods and damp places, and is always involuted involuted: curled or rolled inward more or less in a spiral manner.