208 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



concatenate cells, their extremities free. The stem is 

 enlarged downwards, often lacunose, occasionally be- 

 coming hollow with age. 



Name fiaKpoz, large, TTOUC, a foot ; large-stemmed. 



Woods below Highfield, near Halifax (Bolton). Finch- 

 ley Common (Sowerby). On the road from Dunningtoii 

 to Pophill (Purton). Near Guildford (Hudson). Bal- 

 muto, N.B. (Dr. Greville). Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. 

 Keith). North Wootton ! (C. B. Plowright). Farningham 

 Earl (C. B. Plowright). Glamis (Rev. J. Stevenson). 

 Epping Forest (Mr. English). Bishop's Wood, Hamp- 

 stead ; and Albury, Surrey (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Sufton 

 Court, Herefordshire ! Wrekin, Salop ! Craigforda, near 

 Oswestry ! Tyntestield, Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall). Near 

 Carlisle ! (Dr. Carlyle). 



SUBGENUS II. SEPULTARIA. Cooke. 



Cups fleshy, sessile, clad with coloured hairs ; chiefly 

 terrestrial. (Plate VI. fig. 39.) 



Name Sepultus, buried ; from being immersed. 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 



A. Cups large, often immersed. 



(a) Sporidia globose . . . . . . species 8 



(/>) Sporidia elliptic . . . . . . 9-14 



(c) Sporidia fusiform . . . . . . 15-16 



B. Cups smaller ; hairs olten fasciculate. 



(a) Sporidia elliptic .. .. .. 17-18 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Hymenium brown . . . . . . . . . . 1 



Hymenium red . . . . . . . . 2 



Hymenium pallid-ochraoeous . . . . . . Sumneriana. 



Hymenium cinereous, livid, or bluish white . . 3 

 'Externally brown, having short hairs; cups im- 

 mersed . . . . . . . . . . . . geaster. 



Externally brown, having^long flexuous hairs ; cups 



1. \ immersed . . . . . . . . . . . . arenicola. 



Externally brown, having longish rigid hairs ; cups 



sessile . . . . . . . . . . . . gregaria. 



.Externally brown ; hairs fasciculate ; cups sessile. . brunnea. 



(Externally brown ; hymenium orange-red . . . . lapidaria. 



2 I Externally brown ; hymenium deep flesh-red . . hybrida. 



" j Externally scarlet .. .. .. .. .. h'rto-coccinea. 



(Externally fulvous var. fulvo-coccinea. 



