obtuse; the paraphyses are broad, and sometimes septate, filled with granular protoplasm.

Name-áraλós, soft, tender.

Batheaston, near Bath (Mr. C. E. Broome). Mangotsfield, near Bristol! (Mr. C. Bucknall). Grantown, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Haughmond Hill, Salop! Bomere, Salop!

35. Lachnella filicea. (Cooke and Phil.)

Cups gregarious, stipitate, at first globose, then hemispherical, white, tomentose; hairs short, septate, colourless; hymenium white; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, fusiform, acute at the ends, 3-nucleate or pseudoseptate, biseriate, 15-20 x 2-3μ; paraphyses acerose, exceeding the asci.

Peziza filicea-Cooke and Phil. in Herb. Kew.

On fern-leaves.

Cups 100 to 200μ broad; stem short, equalling the height of cup. The hairs of the cup are often obtuse, or pyriform, at the apices, with clusters of amorphous crystals of oxalate of lime, and deciduous. The asci are very large for such a small species.

Name-Filices, the fern tribe; growing on ferns. Duneden, N.B. in Herb. Kew; Chedder! (Mr. C. Bucknall).

C. POSITION DOUBTFUL.

36. Lachnella erythrostigma. (B. and Br.)

Minute, stipitate, punctiform, pale red; hymenium at length convex; asci clavate; sporidia uniseriate, elliptic or subglobose.

Peziza erythrostigma-B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," 1168, t. 4, f. 31; Cooke," Handbk.," 2118.

Parasitic on Sphæria phaostroma.

The stem is mostly curved, distinctly cellular; asci clavate; sporidia minute, subglobose. Very minute, but a pretty object under the microscope (B. and Br.). Minutely woolly with delicate hairs" (Cooke in litt.). Batheaston (?) (Mr. C. E. Broome).

SECTION II.-SESSILE.

SUBGENUS III.-LACHNELLA. Fries (in part).

Cups sessile, pilose or villose, for the most part firm and dry, at first closed and globose, then more or less expanded and hemispherical. (Plate VIII. figs. 47, 48.) Name-λàxvn, down.

ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES.

A. Hairs of cup coloured.

(a) Sporidia elliptic or oblong.

(a) Paraphyses filiform or absent.. species 37, 38

(b) Sporidia fusiform or clavate.

(a) Paraphyses filiform or absent
(3) Paraphyses acerose

B. Hairs of cup hyaline.

(a) Sporidia elliptic, oblong, or subcymbiform.
(a) Paraphyses filiform or absent.

(i.) Cups coloured

(ii.) Cups white or greyish-white

(b) Sporidia fusiform or clavate.

(a) Paraphyses filiform or clavate.
(i.) Cups coloured

(ii) Cups white or greyish-white

(8) Paraphyses acerose.
(i.) Cups coloured

(c) Sporidia cylindrical

c. Position doubtful

Hymenium smoky-brown; exterior brown; sporidia
becoming 1-septate..

Hymenium brown; exterior furfuraceo-tomentose.. grisella.

canescens.

(Growing on herbaceous stems; externally clothed 3. with strigose hairs

Growing on fern-stems; exterior olive-brown
Growing on rotten wood, citron-colour

nidulus.

Pteridis.

citricolor.

(Growing on leaves; exterior fulvo-rufous

dumorum.

Hymenium white

Growing on wood

1. Growing on leaves

red

Hymenium white or very pale yellow: on Humulus

Hymenium yellowish; externally white: on Sphæria episphæria.

(Growing on Rubus

albo-testacea. Tami.

1

candidata.

2

4

fugiens.

aranea.

Growing on rushes

(Growing inside husks of chestnut

(Exterior white; margin ciliated; hairs long

2. Exterior white; hairs short and inconspicuous

3.

4.

Exterior whitish or yellowish, rough with papillæ
Marginal hairs twisted spirally

(Marginal hairs spreading

(Exterior greyish-white: on leaves of Rubus

Exterior white, when dry yellowish: on leaves of
Betulus

Exterior white, nearly naked: on leaves of Epilo

bium

3

hyalina. scrupulosa. sporotricha. leuconica. œdema.

araneo-cincta.

punctoidea.

A. HAIRS OF CUP COLOURED.

(a) Sporidia elliptic or oblong.

(a) Paraphyses filiform.

37. Lachnella Pteridis. (A. and S.)

Cups scattered or gregarious, sessile, small, at first globose, then hemispherical, waxy soft; externally dark olive-brown, rugulose from the adpressed hairs; margin crenate-fimbriate; flesh dirty yellow; asci clavate or elongate-subfusiform; sporidia 8, oblong or oblong

fusiform, 5-9 × 2-3μ; paraphyses filiform.

VIII. fig. 47.)

(Plate

Peziza Pteridis-A. and S., "Consp.," p. 338, t. 12, fig. 7; Pers., " Myco. Eur.," p. 300; Nyl., "Pez. Fenn.,' p. 59. Trichopeziza pulveracea Fckl., "Symb. Myco.," p. 297; Sacc., "Myco. Ven. Sp.," p. 163. Mollisia Pteridis -Gill., “Champ.,” p. 121.

Exs.-Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. 1419, ed. ii. 919; Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," 424; Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," i. 657, ii. 387; Phil., "Elv. Brit," 33; Rehm, "Asco.," 411; Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," 1817.

On dead stems of Pteris aquilina.

Cups 200 to 500μ broad, nearly globose, roughish and blackish brown to the naked eye.

Name-Pteris, a genus of ferns.

Castle Rising, Norfolk! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Shrewsbury!

38. Lachnella papillaris. (Bull.)

Cups gregarious, sessile, hemispherical, then expanded, externally between villose and hairy, entirely milk-white; margin granulated; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, oblong or oblong-fusiform, 10-14 x 3μ.

Peziza papillaris-Bull., t. 467, f. 1; Sow., t. 177; Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 102; "Eng. Flo.," P. 197; Cooke, "Handbk.," 2051; Karst., "Pez. et Ascob.," p. 21; and "Mon. Pez.," p. 188. Helotium papillare-Karst., "Myco. Fenn.," p. 160. Lachnea papillaris—Gill.,

'Champ.," p. 80.

On dead wood.

Cups nearly of a line broad.

Gregarious, crowded, not adnate, waxy, rather firm; margin entire, denticulated; when dry closed, granuliform, persistent, so slightly tinged with yellow that it can scarcely be called straw-coloured (Fries).

The hairs are septate, faintly brown, with crystal granules at the summits.

Name-Papilla, the nipple; appearing covered with

papillæ.

Greenhithe, Kent! (Sowerby).

(b) Sporidia fusiform or clavate.
(a) Paraphyses filiform or absent.
39. Lachnella spadicea. (Pers.)

Cups scattered, sessile, subgloboso-hemispherical, at length expanded; externally clothed with a dense, compact, spadiceous tomentum; disc rather paler; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, elliptic or fusiform, 8 × 2μ; paraphyses slenderly filiform.

Peziza spadicea-Pers., " Myco. Eur.," p. 252; Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 98. Lachnea spadicea-Gill., " Champ.,' p. 77.

On dead stems of Ulex.

Cups 500μ broad. The tomentum consists of short, septate, closely set hairs, which are granular within. Name Spadiceus, bay-colour.

In Herb. Berkeley, without locality!

40. Lachnella corticalis. (Pers.)

Cups gregarious, sessile, globose, then hemispherical, firm, flocculose-tomentose, rufescent or whitish-grey; hymenium same colour; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, clavate or fusiform, straight or curved, 13 × 4μ; paraphyses filiform.

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Peziza corticalis-Pers., " Obs.," i. p. 28, 112; "Myco. Eur.," p. 267; D. C., "Flo. Fr.," ii. p. 80; A. and S., Consp.," p. 322; Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 96; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 311 and 562; Karst., "Mon. Pez.," p. 186; Cooke, “ Handbk.," No. 2041; Nyl., “Pez. Fenn.," p. 27. Lachnella corticalis-Fries, "Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 365; Fckl., “Symb. Myco.," p. 280. Helotium corticale-Karst., "Myco. Fenn.," p. 159. Lachnea corticalis-Gill., “Champ.," p. 84. Lachnella corticalis-Pat., p. 30, f. 71.

Exs.-Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. 703, ed. ii. 72; Rabh., "Herb. Myco.," ed. ii. 625; and "Fung. Eur.," ed. nov. 915; Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 260; Fckl., “F. Rh.,” 1120; Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 119.