LACHNELLA. 233 



with dense, short, reddish-brown, septate hairs; hyme- 

 nium waxy, subglaucous, greenish-olive ; margin slightly 

 inflexed, fiinbriate ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, guttulate, 10 12 X 3/z; paraphyses filiform, 

 apices clavate, acuminate. (Plate VII. fig. 43.) 



Peziza diplocarpa Curr., " Linn. Trans.," xxiv. p. 

 153, t. 25, f. 30-33 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," 2047. 



On the ground. November. 



Cups \ of an inch wide ; margin slightly inflexed and 

 surrounded by a ring of hairs of a pale umber, forming a 

 marked contrast in colour with the reddish brown outer 

 hairs ; disc waxy, somewhat glaucous, of a greenish 

 olive colour; sporidia elliptic, with a nucleus at each 

 extremity, usually slightly narrowed at each end, '0003 

 inch (7/i) long ; paraphyses filiform, terminating in spore- 

 like bodies, the latter 2 to 4-septate, acuminate at the 

 apex, and tapering to the junction with the filament, 

 varying much in length, from '0008 to '0018 inch (20^ to 

 50/z). Allied to P. rufo-olivacea A. and S. (Currey). 



Besides the peculiar bodies Mr. Currey regarded as 

 the paraphyses, I find in the original specimen slender 

 filiform paraphyses. (Plate VII. fig. 43.) 



Name StTrAooe, double, tapirus, fruit; having two 

 kinds of fruit. 



Joydens Wood, Dartford ! (Mr. F. Currey). 



(/3) Paraphyses acerose. 

 2. Lacknella cerina. (Pers.) 



Cups gregarious or crowded, shortly stipitate or sub- 

 sessile, hemispherical, at length nearly plane, yellowish- 

 olive, furf uraceo-villose ; hairs brown, asperate ; hyme- 

 nium yellowish or dull olive-yellow ; margin connivent ; 

 asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 6 X 3^t ; 

 paraphyses slenderly acerose, exceeding the asci. (Plate 

 VII. fig. 44.) 



Peziza cerina Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 651 ; Fries, 

 " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 92 ; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 195 ; Holms., 

 ii. t. 20 ; Nees., f. 283 ; " Flo. Dan.," t. 1620 (lower fig.) ; 



