LACHNEA. 229 



Cups 1 to 2J lines broad ; external hairs straight, 

 attenuated upwards, loO^u. to 200^u long (Dr. Cooke, I. c.~). 



Name Greta, chalk. 



Walls of Inverleith House, Edinburgh ! (Professor 

 Balfour). 



SUBGENUS Y. NEOTTIELLA. Cooke. 



Cups sessile ; externally albo-tomentose. (Plate VII. 

 fig. 42.) 



Name veoTrta, a nest ; resembling a little nest. 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 



A. Sporidia asperate . . . . . . . . species 38 



B. Sporidia smooth . . . . . . . . ,,39 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Hymenium orange .. .. .. .. .. Cornubiensis. 



Hyrnenium bright scarlet . . . . . . . . crucipila. 



Hymenium blue . . . . . . . . . . cxrulea. 



A. SPORIDIA ASPERATE. 



38. Lachnea Cornubiensis. (B. and Br.) 



Cups sessile, fleshy, nearly plane, affixed to the soil 

 by villous down, the margin alone free ; externally clothed 

 with delicate, obtuse, septate hairs ; hymenium orange ; 

 asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, oblongo-elliptic, asperate, 

 1822 X 13^; paraphyses linear. (Plate VII. fig. 42.) 



Peziza Cornubiensis B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist./' 

 No. 767; Berk., "Outl.," p. 366; Cooke, "Handbk," 

 No. 1993; "Mycogr," fig. 309. 



On manured ground. 



Cups f of an inch broad, depressed. A very fine 

 species (B. and Br., I. a). 



Name Cornubia, the Latin name of Cornwall. 



Penzance (Mr. Tracy Millett). 



B. SPORIDIA SMOOTH. 



39. Lachnea crucipila. (Cooke and Phil.) 



Cups scattered, sessile, fleshy, hemispherical, then 

 plane ; externally pale scarlet, clothed with pale brown, 

 forked or cruciate, septate hairs; hymenium bright 

 scarlet; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, 



