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On dead bark of trees. 



Cups nearly a line broad ; at first globose, opening 

 by a narrow mouth. The hairs are usually pale, but 

 sometimes brown or reddish-brown, short, and tapering. 

 The colour of the exterior varies, being paler towards 

 the margin. 



Name Cortex, bark ; growing on bark. 



Bristol (Mr. H. 0. Stephens). Thame (Dr. Ayres). 

 Rudloe, Wilts (Mr. C. E. Broome). Leicrh Woods, near 

 Bristol! (Mr. C. Bucknall). Torres, KB.! (Rev. Dr. 

 Keith). Forden, North Wales (Rev. J. E. Vize). Atting- 

 liam Park, Salop ! Rushbury, Salop ! Bomere, Salop ! 



41. Lachnella canescens. (Cooke.) 



Gregarious or crowded, sessile, hemispherical, firm ; 

 clothed externally with flexuous, brown, septate hairs ; 

 hymenium fuliginous-brown ; asci clavate ; sporidia fusi- 

 form, at length pseudo-1 -septate, 9 12 x 2/j; paraphyses 

 filiform. 



Peziza canescens Cooke in litt. 



On naked wood. 



Cups nearly \ of a line broad. This differs from L 

 corticalis in the fusiform sporidia, and the more con- 

 spicuous septate hairs of the exterior. 



Name Canus, hoary. 



Near Hereford (Mr. James Renny). 



42. Lachnella variecolor. (Fries.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile, but not adnate, globose, then 

 hemispherical, rather firm ; externally flocculoso-villose ; 

 hymenium urceolate, white, becoming pallid; asci cylin- 

 draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong or subfusiform, 

 7 11 X 2 3fjL ; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza variecolor Fries, " Sys. Mvco.," ii. p. 100 ; 

 "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 197; Cooke, "Handbk." 2048. P. 

 sulphured Pers., " Icon. et. Descr.," t. 8, f. 4, 5. Tapesia 

 > riecolor FckL, " Symb. Myco.," p. 302. Peziza albo- 

 liitea NyL, "Fez. Fenn.," p. 29; Karst., " Mon. Fez.," p. 

 IS?. P.flavo-fuliginea Karst, "Pez. et. Ascob.," p. 20. 



