LACHNELLA. 265 



Exs. Karst., " Fung. Fenn.," 62; Phil,, "Elv. Brit./' 

 25; Roumg., "Fung. Gal./' 1415. 



On dead nettle-stems and Stachys. 



Cups J to f of a line. 



Name Sulphur, brimstone ; sulphur-coloured. 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Ruse Hill, near 

 Shrewsbury ! 



Var. /3. leucophcea. (Pers.) 



Scattered or gregarious, hemispherical, pallid-tomen- 

 tose, hairs whitish or sulphury, often at length fer- 

 ruginous ; hymenium whitish ; asci subcylindrical ; 

 ^poridia 8, fu so-filiform, 7- -16 X 1 I'o^; paraphyses 

 acerose, slightly exceeding the asci, rather slender. 



Peziza sulphured, var. leucophcea Pers., "Myco. 

 Eur.," 250; Weinm, "Myco.," p. 451. P. leucophcea- 

 Nyl., "Pez. Fenn," p. 31; Karst, Mon. Fez," p. 199. 

 Lachnuin leucophceum Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 177 ; 

 "Scott. Nat.," vi. 123. 



Exs. Rab, " Herb. Myco.," ed. ii. 707 ; Desm., Crypt. 

 Fr.," ed. i. 173, and ed. ii. 121; Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 

 62 (in part) ; Relnii, " Asco.," 308 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," 

 ed. ii. 372. ' 



On nettles, large Umbelliferce, and Artemisia. 



Certainly not worthy of specific rank. 



Name AEUKOC, white, ^CH'OC, dusky; grey ash-coloured. 



Lei^h Downs, near Bristol 1 (Mr. C. Bucknall). Forden, 

 North Wales ! 



B. HAIRS OF CUP HYALTXE. 



(a) Sporidia elliptic, oblong, or subcymbifoi m. 

 (a) Paraphyses filiform or absent. 



(i.) Cups coloured. 

 53 Lachnella dematiicola. (B. and Br.) 



Cups gregarious, minute, hemispherical, watery-umber, 

 ciliated with long, hyaline, non-septate flocci ; hymenium 

 same colour, or cinereous; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 



