LACHNEA. 211 



flexuous hairs, encrusted with sand; mouth constricted, 

 becoming split and dentate ; hymenium fuscescent ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, 1-guttulate, 

 smooth, 20 X 12/z; paraphyses clavate at the apices. 



Var. Bloxami. (Cooke.) 



Differs from the type in the colour of the disc, which 

 is fleshy-ochraceous, and the larger sporidia. 

 Peziza Bloxami Cooke, "Mycogr.," tig. 121. 

 On sandy ground. 

 Name After the Rev. A. Bloxam. 

 Near Liverpool (Rev. H. H. Higgins). 



12. Lachnea lapidaria. (Cooke.) 



Hemispherical, then expanded ; externally brown, clad 

 with fascicles of rather rigid, straight, pointed, brown, 

 septate hairs ; hymenium orange-red ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 16 x 8//; paraphyses enlarged 

 gradually from the centre upwards. 



Peziza hybrida Cooke in " Grevillea," vol. xii. p. 43. 

 Peziza lapidaria Cooke in litt. 



Growing between paving-stones in an area. 



Cups f of an inch in diameter; hairs 200/z long, 

 8/1 broad. 



Name Lapidariiis, pertaining to stones ; growing 

 between stones. 



Bristol ! (Mr. Cedric Bucknall). 



13. Lachnea hemispherica. (Wigg.) 



Cups scattered, sessile, at first globose, soon hemi- 

 spherical, entire, the margin also becoming replicate ; ex- 

 ternally subfuscous, sparsely covered, especially near the 

 margin, with fasciculate brown hairs ; hymenium bluish 

 white ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 2-guttulate, 

 smooth, 20 24 X 10 13/* mm. ; paraphyses septate, 

 clavate at the apices. 



Peziza hemispherica Wigg. in Hoffm., " Crypt.," ii. 

 t. 7, fig. 6 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. 82; "Flo. Dan.," t. 1558, 



