LACHNELLA. 239 



Very similar to L. brunneola; it is a much darker 

 colour, and the hairs are stouter and more granular 

 within. 



Name — Fagus, the beech, colo, to inhabit ; from the 

 habitat. 



Brockley Coombe, near Bristol ! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 



10. Lachnella palearum. (Desm.) 



Cups scattered, stipitate, hemispherical, then ex- 

 panded, pale fulvous, tomentose ; hairs rather short, 

 septate, fulvous, obtuse ; hymenium concave, pallid-white, 

 margin ciliated ; stem rather long, enlarged upwards into 

 the cup, base darker, firm ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, oblong or oblong-fusiform, 10 — 13 X 2/u ; 

 paraphyses acerose, exceeding the asci. 



Peziza palearum — Desm., "Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1846; 

 Karst., " Mon. Pez.," p. 195 ; Phil., " Grevillea," iv. p. 121 ; 

 Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 308. Peziza clandestina, j3. 

 patens — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 94 (?) ; /3j3. patula — 

 A. and S., p. 230 (?). Peziza Schiveinitzii — Auersw. in 

 Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," nov. ed. No. 1118. Lachnea patens 

 — Karst., " Symb.," p. 250. Lachnum patens — Karst., 

 "Fung. Fenn.," p. 179; Mich., vii. p. 330. Lachnea 

 palearum — Gill., " Champ./' p. 67. 



Exs.— Desm., " Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. 1417, ed. ii. 917 ; 

 Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," nov. eel. 1118 ; Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 68 ; 

 Rhem, "Asco.," 156; Thum., "Fung. Aus.," 828; and 

 "Mycoth. Univ.," 121; Fckl., « F. Rh.," 1181; Roumg., 

 " Fung. Gal.," 540. 



On decayed culms of Psamma arenaria, and other 

 grasses. 



Cups 300 — 400/* broad, nearly the same high. The 

 short, septate hairs cover the whole of the exterior, and 

 often have a few granules of oxalate of lime on their 

 apices. Asci 50/* long, and 5/u broad. 



Name — Palea, chaff; growing on chaff. 



North Wootton, Norfolk (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Man- 

 gotsfield, near Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall) ; Gran town, N.B. 

 ( Rev. Dr. Keith). Water Orton ! (Mr. W. B. Grove). 



