LACHXEA. 205 



the base ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, rather broadly 

 elliptic, at first guttulate, smooth, 18 20 X 10/z; para- 

 physes clavate, with brown apices. 



Peziza corium- -Weberb., " Pilze," t. iii. f. 7; Cooke, 

 "Mycogr," fig. 187; " Grevillea," v. p. 59. Aleuria 

 corium, Gill., " Champ.," p. 39. 



Exs. Phil, "Elv. Brit," No. 153; Rabh, "Fung. 

 Eur," 2209 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit," ed. ii. No. 552 ; Rav., 

 " Fung. Am," 760. 



On the ground in sandy soil. Spring. 



Cups J to 1J inches broad ; stem J to 1 J inches long, 

 and about 1 to 3 lines broad at the base, smaller above. 

 The flesh is white ; the cells which form the velvety 

 surface of the exterior are composed of 4 to 8 in a 

 chain, constricted at their junction, the chain very rarely 

 branched. The brown apices of the paraphyses are often 

 composed of nearly moniliforrn cells. 



Name Corium, leather; leather-like. 



North Wootton ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



4. Lachnea bulbosa. (Hedw.) 



Cups hemispherical, becoming expanded, waxy, when 

 dry subcoriaceous, cinerascent, minutely sqnamulose ; 

 hymenium blackish brown ; stem firm, rather slender, 

 arising from a tuber-form base ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 

 8, broadly elliptic, 1-guttulate, gutta large, smooth, 

 15 X W/UL ; paraphyses clavate at the apices. 



Peziza bulbosa Nees, " Sys," f. 289 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco," ii. 58 ; " Grevillea," iii. fig. 8 ; Cooke, " Mycogr," 

 fig. 189. Octospora bulbosa Hedw, " Mus. Frond," t. x. 

 f. c. Fungoides fuscum--Rux.lo., "Petr," iv. t. 29, f. 3; 

 SchsefT, t. 152. Aleuria bulbosa Gill, "Champ," p. 

 37, c. i. 



Exs. Rabh, " Fung. Eur," 1308. 



On the ground in sandy soil. Summer and autumn. 



Cups ^ an inch to 1 inch broad ; stem J an inch to 1 

 inch long, 1 line thick ; flesh pale grey. 



Name Bulbus, a bulb ; bulbous. 



King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright) 



