220 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Cups 3 to 5 lines broad; marginal hairs short, rather 

 stout, septate, brown. 



Name Umbrosus, shady; growing in the shade. 



Berwick (Dr. Johnston e). Wrexham ! (Mr. B. Acton). 

 Colwyn Bay (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



23. Lachnea hirta. (Schum.) 



Cups sessile, scattered, subhemispherical, fleshy; 

 margin somewhat inflexed ; clothed externally with 

 brown septate hairs, those on the margin short and 

 slender; hymenium concave, scarlet; asci cylindrical; 

 sporidia 8, oblong- elliptic, asperate, 25 X 10^ ; para- 

 physes clavate at the apices, filled with orange granules. 



Peziza hirta Schum., " Saell." p. 422 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco.," ii. 84; Pers., " Myco. Eur.," p. 245; Crouan, 

 " Flo. Fin.," p. 51 ; B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 

 557, 768; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2021; "Mycogr.," fig. 

 128. Peziza scutellata Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," ii. 187; 

 " Grevillea," iii. fig. 218. Lachnea hirta Gill., "Champ.," 

 D 75 c i 



Exs. Cooke, " Fung. Brit./' i. 576, ii. 187 ; Phil., 

 "Elv. Brit./' 19; Wright, "Cub.," 671; Eabh., "Fung. 

 Eur.," 27. 



On the ground, etc. Autumn. 



Cups 2^ lines broad ; marginal hairs short, slender, 

 septate, brown, 200 to 300/j long (Cooke). 



Name Hirtus, hairy. 



Wimbledon Common (Mr. C. E. Broome). Coed Coch 

 (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Wareham (Rev. W. Smith). 

 Epping Forest ; Dalnieny ; Ken Wood, Hampstead ; and 

 Highgate (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. 

 Keith). Llanrwst, North Wales ! near Shrewsbury ! 



(]3) Hymenium yellow. 

 24. Lachnea vitellina. (Pers.) 



Cups subcsespHose, sessile, hemispherical, at length 

 expanded and flexuose ; margin furnished with brown, 

 septate bristles ; hymenium bright yellow ; asci cylin- 



