LACHMEA. 215 



ternally brown, covered with a very dense coat of rigid, 

 fasciculate, brown, septate, strigose hairs ; hymenium 

 livid-brown, becoming pallid ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 

 8, fusiform-elliptic, smooth, 22 x 10/z ; paraphyses filiform, 

 septate, apices slightly thickened. 



Peziza gregaria Rehm, " Asco.," No. 6 ; " Grevillea," 

 iii. fig. 221 ; Winter in " Flora," 1873 ; Cooke, " Mycogr.," 

 fig. 123. Peziza kemispherica, var. /3. prootyimdla Karst., 

 "Hon. Fez.," p. 125 ; Karst., "Myco.Fenn," p. 69 (?). Peziza 

 hemispherica, var. rtiinoi NyL Peziza brunnea 

 Cooke in " Grevillea," iii. fig. 98. 



Exs. Cooke, " Fung. Brit," ii. 368 ; Rehm, " Asco," 

 6 ; Rabh, " Fung. Eur," 1220 ; Desrn, " Crypt. Fr./' 1312 ; 

 Rabh, " Fung. Eur," 1704. 



On the ground in shady woods. Autumn. 



Cups J to 1J line broad. Sporidia sometimes ex- 

 ternally minutely rough. 



Name Grex, a fiock ; growing in groups. 



Dimnore, Herefordshire ! Cirencester ! (Mr. Joshua). 

 Lyonshall, Herefordshire ; and on burnt ground, Kew 

 Gardens (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



18. Lachnea Woolhopeia. (Cooke and Phil.) 



Cups scattered, sessile, hemispherical, becoming nearly 

 applanate ; externally clothed with erect, acute, septate, 

 brown, fasciculate hairs ; hymenium watery-grey ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, 1-guttulate, 

 smooth, 20 22 x 13 15/x ; paraphyses filiform, apices 

 clavate. 



Peziza Woolhopeia Cooke and Phil, in " Grevillea," 

 vi. p. 75 ; Cooke's " Mycogr," fig. 404 ; Pat, p. 74, f. 171. 



On burnt ground in woods. Autumn. 



Cups i to 1 line broad. Hairs fasciculate 150 to 200/i 

 long, thick and brown at the base, pointed and hyaline 

 above. 



Name After the Woolhope Field Club. 



Downton, Salop ! (Mr. Cecil H. Spencer Perceval). 



