228 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Shwz., but hairs much longer, with a bulbous base, a 



darker disc, and paraph yses not enlarged at the summits. 



Name Bulbus, a bulb, crinis, hair ; from its bulbous 



Y~\ Q "1 VQ 



Torres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



36. Lachnea albospadicea. (Grev.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile, subglobose, then hemi- 

 spherical, at length plane, fleshy; external surface and 

 margin strigose with short, septate, reddish-brown hairs ; 

 hymenium white; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 1-guttulate, smooth, 20 X 9 lO^u; paraphyses clavate 

 at the apices. 



Peziza albospadicea Grev., " Flo. Edin.," p. 420 ; 

 "Eng. Flo," v. 194; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2030; 

 " Mycogr," fig. 141. 



On the ground in woods. Autumn. 



A fine species, about 2 lines broad, globose when 

 young, gradually becoming plane ; hymenium white, 

 smooth, with a slight tinge of grey in moist weather. 

 External surface covered with reddish-brown hairs, which 

 form also a border to the hymenium (Grev, I. c.). 



Hairs very short and delicate, about lOO^u long 

 (Cooke, L c.), 



Name Albm, white, spadiceus, bay ; from the colour. 



Foxhall, near Edinburgh (Messrs. Wauch and Greville). 

 Henbury, near Bristol (Mr. C. H. Spencer Perceval). 



37. Lachnea cretea. (Cooke.) 



Cups subgregarious, sessile, hemispherical, at length 

 expanded ; external surface and margin beset with erect, 

 short, brown, septate hairs ; hymenium white ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, colourless, smooth, 

 12- -18 X 8ju; paraphyses linear. 



Peziza cretea Cooke, " Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.," 1877, 

 p. 46, t. 3, K-N ; " Grevillea," vi. p. 75, t. 97, fig. 4-7 ; 

 " Mycogr.," fig. 362. 



On plaster walls and ceiling exposed to the weather 

 by the burning of the roof. 



