LACHNEA. 



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straight, long, septate, black-brown hairs ; hymenium ver- 

 milion-red ; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, 

 granular within smooth, 20 22 x 11 13^u; paraphyses 

 clavate at the apices, filled with orange granules. 



Peziza scutellata Linn., " Suec.," 458 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco," ii. 85 ; Sow., " Fung," t. 24 ; Bull, " Champ.," p. 

 247, t. 10; "Flo. Dan," t. 1457, f. 2; Karat., "Myco. 

 Fenn," p. 70 ; Weinm, p. 437 ; Kickx, " Flo. Flan," i. p. 

 491 ; "Eng. Flo," v. 193; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2025 ; 

 Weberb, i. t. 3, f. 3; " Grevillea," iii. fig. 114; Cooke, 

 " Mycogr," fig. 131 ; Pat, p. 34, f. 81. Elevela ciliata 

 Schreff., " Icon," t. 284. Peziza ciliata -Hoffm., " Crypt./' 

 ii. p. 25, t. 7, f. 3 ; Holms, " Ot," ii. p. 56, t. 18. Octospora 

 scutellata Sch, " Flo. Bar," ii. 504. Octospora hirta 

 Hedw, " Mus. Frond," t. 3, B. Humaria scutellata 

 Fckl, " Symb. Myco," p. 321. Lachnea scutellata Gill, 

 " Champ./' p. 75. 



Exs. Fckl, "F. Rh," 1*10; Desm, Crypt. Fr," i. 

 702; Karst, "Fung. Fenn," 144; Phil, "Elv. Brit," 64; 

 Roumg, " Fung. Gal," 2948 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit," ed. ii. 

 No. 554. 



On rotten wood in damp places. Autumn. 



Cups 2J to 3 lines broad ; marginal hairs long (600^u), 

 septate, brown, attenuated in the upper half. 



Name Scutella, a little saucer. 



King's Cliffe ; Bodelwyddan, North "Wales ; Coed Coch, 

 North Wales; Stanton, Aboyne (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 

 Langridge, Somerset (Mr. C. E. Broome). Argyleshire 

 (Paterson). Wingfield; Abinger, Surrey; Sutton Park, 

 Birmingham ; Edinburgh, Glasgow (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 

 Fern, N.B. (Rev. J. Fergusson). Preston, Salop (Rev. W. 

 Houghton). Wrexham ! (Mr. B. Acton). Llyn Idwell, 

 North Wales ! Downton, near Ludlow ! Aberystwith ! 

 Bomere Pool, near Shrewsbury ! Almond Park, near 

 Shrewsbury ! 



29. Lachnea stercorea. (Fries.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile, fleshy, when young closed 

 and subglobose, then concave, at length plane, dingy red, 



