LACHNEA. 209 



[Externally brown, having long flexuous hairs; 



hymenium livid; cups immersed . . . . . . sepulta. 



o ! Externally brown, having long straight hairs ; 



hymenium livid ; cups sessile . . . . . . hemispherica. 



Externally brown, having short rigid hairs ; hyrne- 

 i, nium watery grey ; cups sessile . . . Woolhopeia. 



A. CUPS LARGE, OFTEN IMMERSED. 



(a) Sporidia globose. 



8. Lachnea brunnea. (A and S.) 



Cups gregarious, subcrespitose, sessile, hemispherical, 

 then depressed, subnexuose, brown, externally clothed 

 with minute, rigid, fasciculate, brown, septate hairs ; 

 hymenium the same colour ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 globose, asperate, 15 18^u; paraphyses slender, septate, 

 apices clavate. 



Peziza brunnea A. and S. in " Consp.," p. 317. 

 Lachnea brunnea Gill, " Champ.," p. 72. 



On the ground. November. 



Cups 1 to 2 lines broad. 



The above description embraces the characters of 

 Albertini and Schweiiiitz's species, with the addition of 

 microscopical characters of a plant referred to it by Mr. 

 C. E. Broome, which agrees admirably in external cha- 

 racters. No original examples are at present known to 

 exist either in American or British herbaria of Albertini 

 and Schweinitz's species ; there must always remain a 

 doubt, therefore, whether we have the true plant. 



Name Brunneus, dark brown. 



Near Hereford ! (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



(b) Sporidia elliptic. 



9. Lachnea sepidta. (Fries.) 



Cups sessile, subterranean, globose, at first closed, 

 then opening by a narrow mouth, at length splitting 

 into many unequal lacinise ; externally clothed with 

 long, flexuose, branched, septate, brown hairs ; hymenium 

 urceolate, brownish or livid; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, 



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