Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms

LYCOPERDON HYDROPHORUM.
PEZIZA HYDROPHORA. Bulliard t. 410.

THIS is evidently closely related 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 and a little woolly; it afterwards becomes rounder, and finally projects 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, without a doubt, the balls have been thrown to a distance.

PEZIZA SCUTELLATA. With. vol. 3. 442.

FOUND, not very infrequently, 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, although smaller in all its parts, paler, and ciliated fringed with hair with hairs of the same color 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.

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 marked with distinct bands, and either growing in an imbricated overlapping like tiles manner, or forming elegant undulations, from three or four inches to two or three feet in extent. It is made more conspicuous by the light yellow margin, which is 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 colored with the seeds) from the under surface. In drying, it becomes shriveled 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.