LACHNEA. 201 



SUBGENUS VII. PERISTOMIALIS. 



Subcylindrical, sessile, fleshy, disc plane or slightly 

 concave; margin furnished with triangular teeth ; sporidia 

 cylindraceo-filiform. (Plate VI. fig. 37.) 



Name irtpt, around, crro/ia, the mouth ; furnished with 

 scales round the mouth, like the peristome of mosses. 



Only one species. 



52. Mollisia peristomialis. (B. and Br.) 



Minute, cylindrical, pallid, mouth furnished with 

 long white triangular teeth ; hymenium nearly plane ; 

 asci lanceolate ; sporidia biseriate, fusiform, multi-guttu- 

 late, 2027 X 4 5/i. (Plate VI. fig. 37.) 



Peziza (Mollisia) peristomialis B. and Br., "Ann. 

 Nat. Hist," No. 1169, t. 5, f. 32; Cooke, " Handbk.," 

 No. 2119. 



On dead bark of holly. 



About 300 to 400/i high, by 200^ broad. 



Gregarious, at first globose, then elongated, and 

 botuliforrn or subpyriform, truncate at the top, the 

 hymenium scarcely depressed ; the triangular teeth re- 

 semble those of Peziza inflexa (Bolt.) ; the sporidia are 

 large, and furnished with 5 to 9 nuclei. 



'' A most exquisite object under a moderate magnifier, 

 resembling some Actinia in miniature. Sporidia '001 

 inch long" (B. and Br., I. c.). 



Name See under Subgenus. 



Penzance (J. Ralfs, Esq.). 



SERIES II VESTITA 



GENUS VIII. LACHNEA. Fries. 



Cups stipitate or sessile, fleshy, waxy or fibrous ; 

 clothed externally with more or less well-developed hairs. 

 (Plates VI.-VII., figs. 38-42.) 



Name Aax*% down; from the villous or hairy 

 clothing. 



