222 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



(6) Epispore smooth. 



(a) Hymenium red or orange. 



26. Lachnea carneo-sanguinea. (Fckl.) 



Cups scattered or gregarious, fleshy, sessile; externally, 

 as well as the straightly elevated margin, dilutely brown, 

 clothed with short, septate, rather slender, brown hairs ; 

 hymenium at first concave, then plane, between flesh- 

 colour and blood-red ; asci cylindrical, stipitate ; sporidia 

 8, elliptic, 2 to 3-guttu late, smooth, dilutely flesh-coloured, 

 20 X 10/z ; paraphyses simple, clavate at the apices. 



Humaria carneo-sanguinea Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," 

 p. 326 ; " Grevillea," iii. fig. 107. 



Exs. Fckl., " F. Rh," No. 2288. 



On the ground. 



Cups 1 to 2 lines broad (Fckl.). 



Name Caro, flesh, sanguis, blood ; blood-red, flesh - 

 colour. 



27. Lachnea umbrata. (Fries.) 



Sessile, fleshy, concave or nearly plane; hymenium 

 vermilion flesh-colour, when dry paler, clothed with 

 short, rigid, brown, septate hairs ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia elliptic, smooth, 18x9^; paraphyses thickened 

 upwards. 



Peziza umbrata Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 351 ; 

 Karat., "Myco. Fenn," p. 69; " Grevillea," iii. fig. 112; 

 Cooke, "Mycogr.," 137. Peziza umbrosa Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco.," ii. 85 (in part); Kickx., "Flo. Flan.," i. p. 491. 



On the ground. Autumn. 



Cups 3 lines broad ; marginal hairs short, delicate, 

 somewhat flexuous, septate (Cooke, I. c.). 



Name Umbra, a shade; shaded. 



Surrey (Mr. T. Howse). Clifton, Bristol! (Mr. C. 

 Bucknall). Shelton Rough, Shrewsbury ! 



28. Lachnea scutellata. (Linn.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile, hemispherical, at length 

 plane; externally red, hispid towards the margin with 



