252 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



hymenium white ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform, 

 straight or curved, hyaline, obliquely uniseriate, 18 X 2^u ; 

 paraphyses acerose, slightly exceeding the asci. 



Peziza ciliaris Schrad., "Bot. Jour./' 1799, ii. p. 2; 

 Fries, " Sys, Myco," ii. p. 89 ; Cooke, " Handbk. ," No. 

 2031. Hyalopeziza ciliaris Fckl., " Symb. Myco./' 

 p. 298. Lachnea ciliaris Gill., " Champ.," p. 68, c. i. 



Exs. Fckl., "F. Eh.," 1189; Cooke, "Fung. Brit./' 

 573 ; ed. ii. 373. 



On dead oak-leaves. Autumn. 



Cups about 300 ^ broad. Very similar to L. patula. 



Name CHium, the eyelash ; from the fringed margin. 



Near Shrewsbury ! 



32. Lachnella acutipila. (Karst.) 



Cups gregarious or scattered, stipitate, at first globose, 

 at length somewhat plane or a little convex, when dry 

 concave ; margin piloso-fimbriate ; stem very short ; asci 

 cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, slenderly fusiform, com- 

 monly straight, with many guttulre, 8 16 X 1 1'5^ ; 

 paraphyses acerose. 



Peziza acutipila Karst., " Mon. Fez.," p. 195. 

 Lachnum acutipilum Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 173. 



On Pyragmites communis. April to October. 



Cups about SOOfj. broad; hairs of the cup septate, 

 cuspidate, 4/z thick; disc sometimes lutescent. Re- 

 sembling the preceding. 



Var. Icetior. (Karst., 1. c., p. 174.) 



Cups sessile or subsessile, a little larger, in a dry 

 state contracted and difformed ; disc dilutely yellow, 

 when dry yellow ; sporidia somewhat larger. 



The hairs in my specimens are rough, with a few 

 amorphous crystals of oxalate of lime at the summit. 



On dead stems of Rubus idceus. Summer and autumn. 



Name Acutus, sharp, pilus, hair; from the acute 

 hairs with which it is clothed. 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Church Stretton, 

 Salop ! 



