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(/3) Paraphyses acerose. 



(i.) Cups coloured. 

 67. Lachnella albo-testacea. (Desm.) 



Cups scattered, erumpent, sessile, hemispherical, then 

 expanded ; externally white and brick-red colour, floccose ; 

 hairs slender, septate, flexuose ; hymenium flesh-colour; 

 asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform, linear, 

 straight or curved, 7 10 X 1 2/m ; paraphyses acerose, 

 slender. 



Peziza albo-testacea Desm., "Ann. Sc. Nat.," xix. 

 (1843), p. 368; B. and Br, "Ann. Nat. Hist," No. 560; 

 Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2059. Lachnea albo-testacea 

 Gill., " Champ.," p. 86. 



Exs. Desm., " Crypt. Fr," 1415. 



On dead stems of grass, July. 



Cups about oOOju broad. " The exterior is of a brick- 

 red colour, the hairs with which it is covered being 

 white at their tips." 



Name Albiis, white, testaceus, brick-coloured. 



King's Cliffe (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 



68. Lachnella candidata. (Cooke.) 



Snowy- white, sessile, soft, scattered or subgregarious, 

 soon flattened ; margin often lobed and irregular, slightly 

 elevated ; externally clothed with soft, tomentose hairs ; 

 asci subclavate ; sporidia 8, minute, cylindrical, obtuse, 

 hyaline, 7 X 1'op. 



Peziza candidata Cooke in " Grevillea," i. p 130. 



On stems of Rubus, 



High gate (Dr. Cooke). 



69. Lachnella episphwria. (Mart.) 



Cups sessile, becoming plane ; externally white, beset 

 with long, ciliato-pilose hairs ; hymenium pale yellowish. 



Peziza episphceria Mart, " Erl," p. 465 ; Fries, 

 "Sys. Myco : ii. p. 100; " Eng. Flo," v. p. 197; Cooke ; 

 " Handbk.,* No. 2049. 



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