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margin, not branched or stellate. Cups remain flattened 

 in drying (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



Name Coprus, dung; from its habitat. 



Loughton, Essex (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Rannoch, N.B. 

 (Dr. Buchanan White). Batheaston (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



31. Lachnea rubra. (Cooke.) 



Cups gregarious, fleshy, subglobose, becoming ex- 

 panded ; margin elevated, orange-red, beset with short, 

 brown, septate hairs ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 smooth, 18 20 x 10/x ; paraphyses clavate at the apices. 



Peziza rubra Cooke in "Mycogr.," fig. 152. Peziza 

 theleboloides (A. and S.), var. rubra Cooke in " Fung. 

 Brit," ser. i. No. 572 ; "Grevillea," iii. fig. 119. 



Exs. Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," i. 572, ii. 186. 



On spent hops. 



Cups about 2 J lines broad ; hairs reddish brown, 

 about 200/z long, two or three times as thick as in P. 

 theleboloides, with which species it has been confounded. 

 Although growing in company, there appears to be good 

 grounds for regarding them as distinct (Dr. M. C. Cooke, 

 I. c.). 



Name Ruber, red. 



Batheaston, near Bath (Mr. C. E. Broome) 



()3) Hymenium yellow. 

 32. Lachnea theleboloides. (A. and S.) 



Cups gregarious or crowded, fleshy, at first subglobose, 

 then hemispherical, at length expanded, flexuose ; ex- 

 ternally whitish, clothed with slender, septate, nearly 

 colourless hairs ; hymenium pale yellow ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 12 14 X 7/x; paraphyses 

 filiform, clavate at the apices. 



Peziza theleboloides A. and S., " Consp.," p. 322, t. 

 12, f. 4 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 88 ; Cooke, " Handbk." 

 No. 2029 ; B. and Br., 'Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1065, t. 15, 

 fig. 17; "Grevillea," iii. fig. 118; Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 

 151. Lachnea theleboloides Gill., " Champ.," p. 74. 



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