LACHXEA. 203 



externally white, villous ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, asperate, 16 X 10/u; paraphyses filiform. (Plate 

 VI. fig. 38.) 



Peziza radiculata Sow., " Fung.," 1. 114 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco.," ii. 81 ; Crouan, " Flo. Fin./' p. 52 ; Eng. Flo.," 

 v. p. 192 ; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 1160*, t. 4, f. 23 ; 

 Cooke, "Handbk," 2015 ; "Grevillea," iii. fig. 92; Cooke, 

 " Mycogr.," fig. 99. Peziza Sowerlt- -Pers., " Myco. Eur.," 

 p. 232. Lachnea radiculata Gill., " Champ./ 3 p. 66, c. i. 



Exs. Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," 618. 



On the ground, in gardens and in fir woods, etc. 

 Summer and autumn. 



Cups 1 to ITJ inches broad ; hairs septate, hyaline, 

 rather long (M. C. Cooke). Somewhat reticulated ex- 

 ternally, with irregular prominent veins, 1 inch or more 

 broad (Berk, in " Eng. Flo."). 



Name R<L'' , a little root ; from the rooting base. 



Dropmore, Jed burgh (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Near 

 Twycross (Rev. A. Bloxam). North Wootton (Mr. C. B. 

 Plowright). Eppinij (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Stoke Newing- 

 ton (Mr. W. G. Smith). 



Vcir. Percevalii. Phil. 



Differing in the oblique cups (which resemble the 

 species in Otidea) and the clavate paraphyses. 

 Name After Mr. Cecil H. Spencer Perceval. 

 Stopham ! (Mr. Cecil H. Spencer Perceval). 



(a) Epispore smooth. 



(a) Stem erect. 

 2. Lachnea coccinea. (Jacq). 



Cups stipitate, infundibuliform ; externally, as well as 

 the stem, whitish, tomentose, with short adpressed down ; 

 disc carmine ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, oblong-ellip- 

 tic, smooth, 25 27 X 9^u ; paraphyses linear. 



Peziza coccinea Jacq., "Misc. Austr.," t. 169; Fries, 

 '' Sys. Myco.," ii. 79 ; Nees, Sys.," f. 288 ; Bolt, Fung.," 

 t. 104 ; Buxb., " Petr.," iv. t. 29, f. 4; Batt., t. 3, f. N, O; 



