Cups 1 to 2 lines broad; external hairs straight, attenuated upwards, 150μ to 200μ long (Dr. Cooke, l. c.). Name Creta, chalk.

Walls of Inverleith House, Edinburgh! (Professor Balfour).

SUBGENUS V.-NEOTTIELLA. Cooke.

Cups sessile; externally albo-tomentose. (Plate VII. fig. 42.)

Name-vεOTTIά, a nest; resembling a little nest.

ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES.

38. Lachnea Cornubiensis. (B. and Br.)

Cups sessile, fleshy, nearly plane, affixed to the soil by villous down, the margin alone free; externally clothed with delicate, obtuse, septate hairs; hymenium orange; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, oblongo-elliptic, asperate, 18-22 × 13μ; paraphyses linear. (Plate VII. fig. 42.)

Peziza Cornubiensis-B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 767; Berk., "Outl.," p. 366; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 1993; "Mycogr.," fig. 309.

On manured ground.

Cups of an inch broad, depressed. A very fine. species (B. and Br., l. c.).

Name Cornubia, the Latin name of Cornwall.
Penzance (Mr. Tracy Millett).

B. SPORIDIA SMOOTH.

39. Lachnea crucipila. (Cooke and Phil.)

Cups scattered, sessile, fleshy, hemispherical, then plane; externally pale scarlet, clothed with pale brown, forked or cruciate, septate hairs; hymenium bright scarlet; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic,

smooth, 20 × 9μ; paraphyses clavate at the apices, filled with orange-red granules.

Peziza crucipila-Cooke and Phil. in "Mycogr.," fig. 237; Pat., p. 209, f. 481. Lachnea crucipila-Gill., Champ.," figure only.

Exs.-Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. 647.

On the earth in shady damp places in woods. Summer and autumn.

Cups to 1 line broad. The forked hairs, which are intermixed with simple ones, are 200μ long.

Name Crux, a cross, pilus, the hair.

Downton Castle, Herefordshire! Newport, Salop! Highgate and Heywood Forest (Dr. M. C. Cooke).

Doubtful species.

Lachnea cærulea. (Bolt.)

Plane, ciliated, black and smooth externally; hairs soft, pallid; disc bright blue.

Peziza cærulea Bolt., t. 108, f. 2; Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 86; "Eng. Flo.,' v. p. 193; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2026. Lachnea caerulea-Gill., "Champ.,' p. 73.

On putrid wood, in moist places under fir-trees; very rare. October.

Cups about 2 lines broad.

This has not been observed since Bolton's time. May he not have had before him young specimens of Corticium cæruleum (Fries), which often assume a form agreeing with his figure? Compare his figure (108, f. 2) with Sowerby's 350.

GENUS IX.-LACHNELLA. Fries (amended).

Cups small, stipitate or sessile; flesh thin, firm, waxy; externally pilose or villous; asci cylindrical or subclavate; sporidia 8, colourless; paraphyses filiform or acerose. (Plates VII., VIII. figs. 43-49.)

Name-Diminutive of the preceding genus.

Cups slender, waxy, dry; disc glabrous; externally pilose or villous, stipitate; paraphyses filiform or acerose. (Plates VII., VIII. figs. 43-46.)

Hymenium some shade of brown

Hymenium yellowish ..

Hymenium pallid

(Externally sugar-coloured; paraphyses filiform
Externally tawny; paraphyses filiform

1.Externally fawn-colour; paraphyses acerose
Externally umber-brown; paraphyses acerose
(Externally yellowish-brown; paraphyses acerose..

3. Growing on Luzula sylvatica

Growing on bark

(Margin of cup glabrous

Margin of cup villous; sporidia minute

4. Margin of cup villous; sporidia large

Margin of cup tomentose; sporidia medium size

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resinaria.

Paraphyses acerose

Growing on pine-leaves

7. Growing on fern-stems

Growing on wood

(Growing on Rhytisma

Growing on Myrica Gale

8. Growing on bark, wood, etc...

Growing on fern-fronds

(Growing on leaves

Hairs of cup surmounted with globose, echinulate,

9.

crystalline heads

c. Position doubtful

Hairs of cup without crystalline heads

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A. HAIRS OF CUP COLOURED.

(a) Sporidia elliptic.

(a) Paraphyses filiform.

1. Lachnella diplocarpa. (Currey.)

Cups stipitate, hemispherical, then nearly plane; externally vinous-brown, clothed, as well as the stem,

with dense, short, reddish-brown, septate hairs; hymenium waxy, subglaucous, greenish-olive; margin slightly inflexed, fimbriate; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, elliptic, guttulate, 10-12 × 3μ; paraphyses filiform, apices clavate, acuminate. (Plate VII. fig. 43.)

Peziza diplocarpa-Curr., "Linn. Trans.," xxiv. p. 153, t. 25, f. 30-33; Cooke, “Handbk.," 2047.

On the ground. November.

Cups of an inch wide; margin slightly inflexed and surrounded by a ring of hairs of a pale umber, forming a marked contrast in colour with the reddish brown outer hairs; disc waxy, somewhat glaucous, of a greenish olive colour; sporidia elliptic, with a nucleus at each extremity, usually slightly narrowed at each end, 0003 inch (7) long; paraphyses filiform, terminating in sporelike bodies, the latter 2 to 4-septate, acuminate at the apex, and tapering to the junction with the filament, varying much in length, from 0008 to 0018 inch (20μ to 50μu). Allied to P. rufo-olivacea-A. and S. (Currey).

Besides the peculiar bodies Mr. Currey regarded as the paraphyses, I find in the original specimen slender filiform paraphyses. (Plate VII. fig. 43.)

Name Aóos, double, каpπóç, fruit; having two kinds of fruit.

Joydens Wood, Dartford! (Mr. F. Currey).

(3) Paraphyses acerose.

2. Lachnella cerina. (Pers.)

Cups gregarious or crowded, shortly stipitate or subsessile, hemispherical, at length nearly plane, yellowisholive, furfuraceo-villose; hairs brown, asperate; hymenium yellowish or dull olive-yellow; margin connivent; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, elliptic, 6 × 3μ; paraphyses slenderly acerose, exceeding the asci. (Plate VII. fig. 44.)

Peziza cerina-Pers., "Syn. Fung.," p. 651; Fries, Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 92; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 195; Holms., ii. t. 20; Nees., f. 283; "Flo. Dan.," t. 1620 (lower fig.);