LACHNELLA. 2G3 



dingy olivaceous-green ; margin paler, fringed with 

 delicate flocci ; hymenium cinereous ; asci cylindraceo- 

 clavate or irregularly clavate ; sporidia 8, linear oblong 

 or oblong- fusiform, straight or curved, 8 X 3/i ; paraphy.ves 

 filiform, branched. 



Peziza escharodes B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist./ 1 

 No. 1322, t. xix. f. 15 ; " Grevillea," i. p. 130. 



Exs. Rabh, " Fung. Eur," 1418; Cooke, "Fung. 

 Brit," 564, and ed. ii. No. 548 ; Phil, " Elv. Brit," 73. 



On dead stems of Riibus and Rosa. 



Cups nearly J a line broad ; at first closed, globose, 

 then expanded, vertically striate or rugose, becoming 

 black, except the margin, but always appearing rough 

 with very minute hairs under the microscope. 



Name i(r\apa, scab ; scaly, resembling a scab. 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Eastbourne! (}lr. 

 C. J. Muller). Hencote, near Shrewsbury ! 



(j3) Paraphyses acerose. 

 50. Lacknella barbata. (Kunze.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile, globose, then expanded, at 

 length nearly plane, firm ; externally ferruginous, tomen- 

 tose ; hairs long, septate, obtuse ; hymenium pallid ; asci 

 cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform, 5 7 X 1 2p ; 

 paraphyses acerose, rather slender. 



Peziza barbata Kunze in Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. 

 p. 99. Lachnea barbata Gill, " Champ," p. 82 (?). 



Exs. Fries, " ScL Suec," 332. 



On dead stems of Lonicera. 



Cups nearly J a line broad. 



Name Barba f a beard ; hairy. 



Var. ]3. pellita. (Pers.) 



Differs from the type in being greyish or dilutely 

 gilvus. 



Pers, "Myco. Eur," i. p. 264; Bucknall, "Fung. 

 Bristol," No. 019 ; " Grevillea," x. p. 67. Lachnea pellita 

 -Gill, " Champ," p. 83. 



On Lonicera and beech- mast. 



