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(/3) Stem rooting. 

 5. Lachnea helvelloides. (Fries.) 



Cup-shaped, complanate, then expanded, orbicular, 

 becoming reflexed, blackish brown ; externally, together 

 with the equal stem, squamulose-scabrous ; asci cylin- 

 drical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 15 17 X lO^u; para- 

 physes subclavate. 



Peziza hdvelloides Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," 348 ; 

 "Grevillea," iii. fig. 6 ; Cooke, "Mycogr," fig. 190. Hel- 

 vetia pezizoides Fries, " Sys. Myeo.," ii. p. 20 ; Afz. in 

 "Vet. Ac. Hand].," 1873, t. 10, f. 2; Sacc., "Myco. Ven. 

 Sp.," p. 169; Karst., "Myco. Fenn.," p. 36; Fckl., "Symb. 

 Myco.," 333. Aleuria helvelloides Gill., " Champ.," p. 40. 



Exs. Rabh, " Fung. Eur.," ii. 237 ; Karst., " Fung. 

 Fenn.," 446 ; Fckl., " F. Rh.," 1880 ; Rabh., " Herb. Myco.," 

 ii. 26. 



In pine woods and mossy places. Autumn. 



Cup scarcely 1 inch broad ; stem 1 to 2 inches high, 

 1 to 2 lines thick. 



Name Helvella, a genus of fungi, aoc, likeness ; 



Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 



6. Lachnea cocotina. (Cooke.) 



Cups rooting, fleshy, hemispherical, becoming applanate; 

 margin entire ; hymenium pale orange ; externally, to- 

 gether with the stem, whitish tomentose ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, hyaline, smooth, 18 X 10/i; paraphyses 

 clavate. 



Peziza cocotina Cooke in " Grevillea," v. p. 61 ; 

 "Mycogr.," fig. 356. 



On cocoa-nut fibre in a caterpillar-cage, and on saw- 

 dust. October. 



Cups 1 inch diameter. In some points resembling 

 Peziza radicidata (Sow.), in others Peziza cerea (Sow.), 

 but differing from both (Cooke). 



The tomentum consists of short flexuous hairs com- 

 posed of 3 to 5 oblong cells, constricted at the joints. 



