216 BEITISH DISCOMYCETES 



SUBGENUS III. RHIZOPODELLA. Cooke. 



Cup fleshy, hemispherical ; externally adpresso- 

 tomentose ; base rooting by means of coarse black hairs. 

 (Plate VII. fig. 40.) 



The coriaceous texture of the single British species of 

 this subgenus suggests its removal to Dermatece, near to 

 Enccelia. 



Name pi%a } a root, TTOVQ, a foot ; from the fibrillose 

 base. 



19. Lachnea melastoma. (Sow.) 



Cup substipitate, fleshy, subglobose ; externally brick- 

 red, flocculose ; hymenium urceolate, black ; stem short, 

 rooting by means of thick, black, strigose filaments ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, oblongo-elliptic, smooth, 25 x 9// ; 

 paraphyses linear, apices subclavate. (Plate VII. fig. 40.) 



Peziza melastoma Sow., " Fung.," t. 149 ; Fries, 

 "Sys. Myco.," ii. 80; Weinm., " Hyni," p. 434; "Eng. 

 Flo.," v. p.a92 ; Berk., " Outl.," p. 367 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," 

 2013 ; " Grevillea," iii. fig. 90 ; " Mycogr," fig. 103. Peziza 

 atrorufa Grev., t. 315. Peziza rhizopus A. and S., 

 'Consp.," p. 317, t. 1, f. 4; Crouan, "Flo. Fin," p. 51. 

 Peziza crenulata FckL, " Bot. Zeit.," 1861 (cum icone). 

 Plectania melastoma FckL, " Symb. Myco./' p. 324. 

 Lachnea melastoma Gill., " Champ.," p. 66, c. i. 



Exs. FckL, "F. Eh.," 1214, 1215; Rabh., "Fung. 

 Eur.," 716. 



On rotten sticks, etc. Spring. 



Cup J to } of an inch broad. This species varies 

 greatly as to degree of pubescence, being sometimes almost 

 naked, sometimes beset with down, or even bristly hairs; 

 the base, however, is always furnished with long, black, 

 rooting, strigose filaments (" Eng. Flo."). 



Name jutXciQ, black, orro^ua, a mouth. 



Hexam (Mr. Francis Scott). Auchindenny Wood, 

 (Dr. Bainbridge). Bristol (Mr. C. E. Broome). 

 Sussex (Mr. C. H. Spencer Perceval). Plas Newydcl, 

 North Wales (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Bishop's Wood, 



