LACHNEA. 213 



Penza Jdrto-coccinea- -Phil, and Plow, in "Grevillea," 

 viii. p. 100; " Scott. Nat./' vi. 123. 



On the ground in pine woods, in damp, mossy places. 



Cups 2 to 4 lines broad. The hairs below the margin 

 are shorter than those on the margin, and are often 

 clavate, with or without septa. There is in some instances 

 a conspicuous white mycelium below the cups. 



Name Hirtus, hairy, coccineus, scarlet; from the 

 scarlet disc and hairy exterior. 



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



Yar. fuLvo-cocdnea. Phil. 



Externally fulvous, sporidia smaller, 15 22 x 10 12/*. 

 On the ground. 



Name Fulvus, tawny, coccineus, scarlet ; from the 

 scarlet disc and tawny exterior. 



Near Wrexham ! (Mr. T. B. Acton). 



(c) Sporidia fusiform. 

 15. Lachnea Sumneriana. (Cooke.) 



Cup large, scattered, waxy, sessile, at first globose, 

 immersed, then partly exposed, becoming expanded, the 

 margin splitting into irregular lobes ; externally chestnut- 

 brown, covered with a dense coating of long, slender, 

 brown, flexuous, septate hairs ; hymenium pallid-ochra- 

 ceous, with a tint of flesh-colour ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 

 8, broadly fusiform, nucleate, smooth, 30 32 x 12^u ; 

 paraphyses slender. 



Peziza lanuginosa, var. Sumneri Berk, in " Linn. 

 Trans.," xxv. t. 55, fig. 1 ; Cooke, " Hanclbk.," p. 680, No. 

 2017 ; B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," 1866, No. 1161, t. 

 4, f. 25; "Grevillea," iii. fig. 100; Cooke, " Mycogr.," 

 fig. 111. 



Exs. Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," i. 471, ii. 362; Phil., 

 Elv. Brit," 62 ; Rabh, " Fung. Eur.," 1419. 



On the ground, under cedars, larch, etc. Spring. 



Cup 1 to 2 inches broad. At first entirely buried, 

 then forcing its way through the soil, and splitting into 

 several lobes, like a Geaster, which it much resembles 



