LACHNELLA. 235 



Trefriw, North Wales! Ercall Hill, Salop! Marsh 

 Brook, Salop ! General Cemetery, Shrewsbury ! 



4. Lachnella Stevensoni. (B. and Br.) 



Minute, subgiobose, sugar-coloured ; externally granu- 

 lar; stem very short, incrassated upwards ; asci clavate; 

 sporidia 8, minute, subcymbseform, 8 X 2^ ; paraphyses 

 filiform, slender. 



Peziza (Mollisia) Stevensoni B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. 

 Hist.," No. 1485 ; "Grevillea," iii. p. 122. 



On decorticated wood. 



Sporidia '0005 inch (12/z) long. This is accompanied 

 by creeping threads, which give off erect branches bear- 

 ing obovate spores '001 inch (25yu) long. Probably a 

 conidiiferous state (B. and Br.). 



The specimens in the Rev. M. J. Berkeley's herbarium 

 are minutely hairy ; hairs delicate, nearly colourless ; cups 

 200 to 205// broad ; the stem nearly absent, or rather 

 long ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, oblongo-fusiform, 8 X 2^u ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Name After the Rev. J. Stevenson. 



5. Lachnella fuscescens. (Pers.) 



Cups scattered, stipitate, at first globose, then hemi- 

 spherical, tawny, clothed with bay-brown hairs ; hyme- 

 nium pale brown; stem very short; asci cylindraceo- 

 clavate ; sporidia linear, obtuse, 10 X l/n ; paraphyses 

 filiform. 



Peziza fuscescens Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 654 ; 

 " Myco. Eur.," p. 265 ; A. and S., " Consp.," 325 ; FckL, 

 " Symb. Myco., p. 309 ; Phil, " Grevillea," iii. p. 188 ; 

 B. and Br, " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1622; " Grevillea," v. 

 p. 61 ; Cooke, " Carp. GreviUea," p. 127, t. 40, f. 154. 



Exs. Fckl, "F. Rh.," 1168; Roumg, "Fung. Gal," 

 1959. 



On the under side of dead beech-leaves. Autumn. 



Cups the size of P. brunneola, which it resembles, 

 but the paraphyses are not acerose, as in that species. 



