2G4 BKITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Name Pellitus, clothed with fur. 



Brackley Coombe, near Bristol ! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 







51. Lachnella nidulus. (Schm. and Kunze.) 



Cups scattered or gregarious, sessile, hemispherical, 

 then nearly plane, firm ; externally brown, strigose- 

 hirsute ; hairs short, septate, dark brown ; hymenium 

 pallid-yellow ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporiclia 8, fuso- 

 tiliform, 5 10 x lju; paraphyses acerose, rather stout, a 

 little exceeding the asci. 



Peziza nidulus Schm. and Kurize, exs. 72; Pers., 

 "Myco. Eur," i. p. 250; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 104; 

 Karst, " Fez. et Ascob," p. 22 ; and " Mon. Fez.," p. 200 ; 

 NyL, "Fez. Fenn.," p. 30. Lachnum nidulus Karst, 

 " Myco. Fenn.," p. 181. Lachnea nidulus Gill, " Champ.," 

 p. 87, c. i. 



Exs. Rabh, " Herb. Myco." ed. ii. 19 ; and " Fung. 

 Eur.," nov. ed. 807 ; Moug. and Nest., 588 ; Karst., " Fung. 

 Fenn.," 630. 



On Spiraea Ulmaria. 



Cups 400 to SOOyii broad. The hairs are short, rigid, 

 paler near the obtuse, somewhat enlarged apices. 



Name Nidus, a nest ; a little nest. 



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



52. Lachnella sulphurea. (Pers.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile, subglobose ; externally stri- 

 gose-tomentose, sulphur-coloured; hymenium concave, 

 pallid ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, fuso-filiform, simple 

 or spuriously 1 to 3-septate, 14 x2/*; paraphyses 

 acerose, rather stout, exceeding the asci. 



Peziza sulphurea Pers., "Tent, Disp. Meth.," p. 33; 

 "Myco. Eur," p. 250 (in part) ; Grev, t. 83; " Eng. Flo.," 

 v. 198; Karst., "Mon. Fez.," p. 199; NyL, "Fez. Fenn," 

 p. 32; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2053; Pat, p. 124, f. 280. 

 Peziza hydnoidea Purt, No. 1049. Trichopeziza sul- 

 phurea Fckl, " Syrnb. Myco.," 296. Lachnum suL- 

 fureum Karst., " Myco. Fenn," p. 176. Lachnea 

 suljurea Gill, " Champ," p. 81, c. i. 



