262 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



nium concave, white ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform, 

 5 X l^t ; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza dumorum Rob. in Desm., " Ann. Sc. Nat./' 

 t. xiv. 1850. 



On the under side of dead bramble-leaves. 



Cups 2oOju broad. The hairs are short, reddish, bay- 

 brown; the disc becomes cinereous or brownish. 



Name Dumus, a bramble ; from the habitat. 



Batheaston, near Bath ! (Mr. C. Broome). Dolgelly, 

 North Wales ! 



48. Lachnella Schumacheri. (Fries.) 



Cups gregarious or crowded, sessile, hemispherical, 

 externally tornentose, brown ; hymenium becoming nearly 

 plane, purplish-brown or cinereous ; asci cylindraceo- 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform or cylindraceo-fusiform, 

 straight or sometimes curved, 8 13 X 2 3^u ; paraphyses 

 filiform. 



Peziza Schumacheri Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 98 ; 

 " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 196; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2045 ; Gill., 

 " Champ.," p. 89, c. i. 



Exs. Phil., "Elv. Brit.," 167. 



On dead wood. Not uncommon. Autumn. 



Cups about J to f of a line broad, dark brown ; 

 hymenium purplish-brown or cinereous ; margin fringed 

 with very short, brown, septate hairs, hardly distinguish- 

 able even with a pocket lens, hence it is doubtful whether 

 it should not be removed to Mollisia, near cinerea. 



Name After C. F. Schumacher. 



Var. ]3. plumbea. (Grev.) Distinguished by the lead- 

 coloured or bluish hymenium. 



Peziza plumbea Grev., t. 11; "Flo. Dan.," t. 178G. 

 f. 1. 



North Wootton! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Darenth 

 (Dr. Cooke). Shrewsbury ! 



49. Lachnella escharodes. (B. and Br.) 



Cups scattered, sessile, globose, then hemispherical, 

 rugose, rough with short, whitish, deciduous flocci, then 



