LACHNELLA. 249 



Name Vergineus, virgin-like ; pure white. 

 Torres, N.B. (Rev. Dr. Keith). Overley Hill, Salop ! 

 Brynkinalt, Denbighshire ! 



26. Lachnella bicolor. (Bull.) 



Cups gregarious or crespitose, very shortly stipitate, at 

 first globose, then expanded, white, tomentose ; hairs long, 

 asperate ; hymenium orange-yellow ; asci cylindraceo- 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, linear-fusiform, 8 10 X 1 2^u ; 

 paraphyses acerose. (Plate VIII. fig. 46.) 



Peziza bicolor Bull., " Champ.," t. 410, f. 3 ; Sow., t. 

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

 Karat., " Fez. et Ascob," p. 16 ; and " Mon. Fez.," 194 ; " Flo. 

 Dan.," t. 779, f. 2. Peziza calycina Nyl., "Fez. Fenn.," 

 '24> (in part). Dasyscypha bicolor FckL, " Symb. Myco.," 

 105 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," 2035. Lachnum bicolor 

 Karst., " Myco. Fenn./' p. 172. Lachnea bicolor Gill., 

 " Champ.," p. 70, c. i. 



Exs. Berk., 155; FckL, 1205; Desm., " Crypt. Fr.," 

 ed. i. 1057; Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 3; Cooke, " Funo-. 

 Brit.," 568, ed. ii. 363 ; Sommf., 99 ; Phil., " Elv. Brit./' 

 23 ; Rehm, " Asco.," 302 ; Roumg., " Fung. Gal.," 830. 



On dead branches of oak. 



Cups J to J a line broad ; stem short or nearly 

 absent ; asci 60/-6 long, 6^ broad ; hairs long, flexuose, 

 rough. 



Name Bis, double, color, colour. 



Pul borough (Mr. C. H. Spencer Perceval). Ringstead 

 (Mr. C. B. Flo wright). Leigh Woods, near Bristol ! (Mr. C. 

 Bucknall). Scarborough ! (Mr. Massee). Shifnal, Salop ! 



27. Lachnella echinulata. (Awd.) 



Cups minute, epiphyllous or hypophyllous, gregarious, 

 at first globose, at length flattened and very shortly 

 wtipitate, white ; externally villous ; the hairs, each of 

 which bears a globose, echinulate head at the apex, 

 forming a very beautiful radiate margin to the disc, 

 which, when damp, is obscurely marked with a small eye- 

 like spot in the middle ; mature asci clavate, shortly 



