LACHNELLA. 207 



hyaline, nonseptate, disposed spirally round the margin ; 

 asci clavate ; sporidia 8, colourless, narrowly cylindrical 

 or subfusiform, 7 X 1 'o/u ; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 



Peziza sporotricha Oude. in " Arch. Need.," viii. ; 

 Hedw., 1874, p. 87. Peziza, ctsterostoma Phil., "Grevil- 

 lea," vii. p. 140. 



On dead herbaceous stems. Spring. 



Cups not more than 200ju broad. The hairs, which 

 consist of a single, elongated, tapering cell, are about 

 70/u long, and are confined chiefly to the margin, forming 

 a horizontal fringe, turned obliquely from the margin, 

 all bent in the same direction. 



Name viropos, a seed, /ot, hair ; resembling a seed 

 with hairs. 



Clungunford, Salop ! 



56. Lachnella leuconica. (Cooke.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile, expanded, submembranaceous, 

 white ; clothed with long, slender, tapering, flexuous 

 hairs ; margin elevated, ciliated ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, oblong or oblong-elliptic, straight or curved, 

 8 x2/u; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 



Peziza leuconica Cooke in herb. 



On dead wood. 



Cups minute (J to J a line broad), flexuous, thin. 

 The hairs are colourless and non-septate. 



Name Leuconicus, resembling white cotton- wool. 



Clova, N.B. ! 



57. Lachnella hyalina. (Pers.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile, globose, then expanded, 

 becoming nearly plane, thin, soft, hyaline, white, villose 

 or pilose ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 8x3^; paraphyses scarce, slenderly filiform. (Plate 

 VIII fig. 48.) 



Peziza hyalina Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 655 ; Fries, 

 "Sys. Myco.," ii 102 (in part); "Eng. Flo./' v. p. 198 (in 

 part); Karst., "Pez. et Ascob.," p. 21 (in part); and "Mon. 

 Fez.," p. 180 ; Nyl, " Pez. Fenn.," p. 53 ; Cooke, 



