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BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



ARRANGEMENT OF SUBGENBRA. 



I. Sarcoscyplia . 



II. Sepultaria 



III. Rliizopodella . 



IV. Scutellinia . 

 V. Neotiella . 



KEY TO THE SUBGENERA. 



Cups stipitate . . 



Cups seated on a mass of black hairs 



Cups immersed or semi-immersed in the soil 



Cups sessile ; hairs dark, rigid 



Cups sessile ; hairs nearly colourless . . 



1-7 



8-18 



19 



20-37 



38-39 



SarcoscypJia. 



fthizopodella. 



Sepultaria. 



SfutelUnia. 



Neotiella. 



SUBGENUS I. SARCOSCYPHA. 



Cups large, fleshy, distinctly stipita.te ; externally 

 tomentose or hairy. (Plate VI. fig. 38.) 

 Name (rap^, flesh, O-KV^OC, a cup. 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 



A. Sporidia elliptic. 



(a) Epispore asperate . . . . . . species 1 



(6) Epispore smooth. 



(a) Stem erect . . . . . . 2-4 



(#) Stem rooting .. .. .. 5-6 



B. Sporidia fusiform. 



(a) Epispore asperate . . . . . . 7 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 

 Hymenium black . . . . . . . , 



Hymenium brown . . 

 Hymenium yellow 

 Hymenium carmine 



(Exterior cinerascent ; stem bulbous at base 

 I Exterior blackish-brown, squamulose ; stem equal 

 ' J Exterior cinereous, hirto-verrucose ; stem attenuated 



upwards 



( Exterior white, villous; disc sulphur-yellow 

 \Exterior whitish, tomentose ; disc pale orange 



conum. 



1 



2 



coccinea. 



bulbosa. 



helvelloides. 



macropus. 



radiculata. 



cocotina. 



A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC. 



(a) Epispore asperate. 

 1. Lachnea radiculata. (Sow). 



Cups subcsespitose, fleshy, hemispherical, then ap- 

 plauate ; stem thick, rooting ; hymenium sulphureous ; 



