LACHNEA. 227 



We prefer to retain this, as its alliance is tolerably 

 evident. 



Name Erectus, erect ; from its erect form. 



34. Lachnea Dalmeniensis. (Cooke.) 



Cups sessile, fleshy, hemispherical, becoming ex- 

 panded, bright yellow, beset with long erect, septate, 

 pale yellow hairs ; margin elevated ; hymenmm same 

 colour; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 

 12 x 7ft; paraphyses clavate at the apices. 



Peziza Dalmeniensis Cooke in " Grevillea," iii 

 p. 66, t. 34, fig. 121 ; " Mycogr.," fig. 153. 



Exs. Phil., "Elv. Brit.," No. 110. 



On the ground in shady woods, often amongst 

 nettles. Autumn. 



Cups 5 lines broad ; hairs 600// long, septate, tawny 

 yellow. Resembles in some features P. tkeleboloides 

 (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



The hairs in my specimens were pale yellow, nearly 

 colourless under the microscope. 



Name After Dalmeny in Scotland. 



Dalmeny, N.B. (Dr. M. C. Cooke). King's Lynn! 

 (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Warlaby, near Lowth ! (Mr. C. H. 

 Spencer Perceval). Wrekin, Salop ! 



Hymenium white or pallid. 

 35. Lachnea bulbo-crinita. Phil. 



Cups scattered, sessile, hemispherical, then expanded, 

 fleshy; externally dusky brown, clothed with long, straight, 

 brown, septate hairs, bulbous at the base; hymenium 

 pallid or cinereous ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 smooth, 20 X 13/x ; paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza bulbo-crinita Phil., " Scott. Nat./' vi. 123. 



On dead branches. Autumn. 



Cups 1J lines broad, at first closed, then concave; 

 margin ciliated with long erect hairs (J- a line), inter- 

 mixed with shorter (300/i), all having a bulbous basal 

 cell. The disc is slate-colour. Allied to Peziza erinacea, 



