226 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Exs. Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 20 ; Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," 

 621 ; Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," i. 571, ii. 185. 



On spent hops. 



Cups 2 J lines broad ; at first obovate or subcylin- 

 drical, concave, and expanded, when mature of a bright 

 orange colour within ; beset externally with delicate, 

 erect, white hairs, which are hyaline under the micro- 

 scope ; seated at first on a delicate white subiculum, 

 which disappears as the plant advances to maturity, and 

 the cups become crowded (B. and Br.). 



Name Thelebolus, a genus of fungi, dSoe, likeness ; 

 Thelebolus-likQ. 



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

 Manor House, Baling ! (Mr. 0. H. Spencer Perceval). 

 Glamis, N.B. (Rev. J. Stevenson). Shrewsbury ! 



33. Lachnea erecta. (Sow.) 



Cups gregarious or crowded, subcylindrical, smooth, 

 yellowish, at length dilated ; mouth erect, subciliate. 



Ptziza erecta Sow. in " Eng. Fung.," t. 369, figs. 10, 

 11; Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 69; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 194; 

 Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 1996. 



" On very wet moss in damp places. Cups 2 lines 

 high, oblong and upright, but sometimes short and 

 clumsy, often spreading ; sometimes destitute of hairs, 

 sometimes ciliated, sometimes furnished with both hairs 

 and cilise; varying from a deep red to greenish -yellow 

 and pale yellow " (Sow., I. c.). 



"This species is placed by Fries in the series Aleuria 

 and subgenus Hwmaria ; but its affinity seems to be 

 much greater to the species of the present genus (Sarco- 

 scypha), if indeed it be not a form of P. theleboloides, A. 

 and S. The smooth state on moss may possibly be P. 

 axillaris. Unfortunately, no specimens appear to have 

 been preserved " (Berkeley, I. c.). 



Dr. Cooke remarks in " Mycographia," under P. 

 pulcherrima, Cr. (fig. 154), Peziza erecta, Sow., is evi- 

 dently allied to this species. 



