210 BKITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



B. HAIES OF CUP HYALINE. 



(a) Sporidia globose. 



(a) Paraphyses filiform. 



11. Lachnella Cxipressi. (Batsch.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile or with a short stem, at first 

 pyriform, then almost hemispherical, at length nearly 

 plane, between neshy and waxy ; margin entire, rather 

 obtuse, glabrous ; base and stem villose white ; hymenium 

 orange-yellow ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, globose, 

 smooth, 9 — 10yu; paraphyses slender, apices slightly en- 

 larged. (Plate VIII. fig. 45.) 



Peziza Cvpressi — Batsch, " EL," p. 119. Peziza 

 cvpressina — Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 667; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco.," ii. p. 135 ; Karst., "Mon. Pez.," p. 122 ; Gonn. and 

 Rabh., " Myco. Eur.," iii. p. 9, t. 5, f. 9 ; Karst., " Myco. 

 Fenn.," p. 63. Pithya cupressina — Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," 

 p. 317. Phialea cupressina — Gill., " Champ.," 107. 



Exs.— Desm., " Crypt. Fr.," ed. ii. No. 19 ; Karst., 

 " Fung. Fenn.," 149 ; Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," 122 ; Winter, 

 " Fungi Eur.," 2966. 



On leaves of Juniperus Sabina. 



Cups about 1 line broad. 



Name — Cupressus, the cypress ; from its habitat 

 when found by Batsch. 



Brandon, Norfolk ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



(b) Sporidia oblong -elliptic. 

 (a) Paraphyses fil iform. 



12. Lachnella tricolor. (Sow.) 



Cups gregarious, stipitate, hemispherical, waxy ; ex- 

 ternally pale blue or bluish-grey, villose with slender, 

 septate, nearly colourless hairs ; stem very short, rather 

 stout, nearly white ; hymenium yellowish ; asci clav&to- 

 cylindrical; sporidia 8, narrowly elliptic, smooth, biseriate, 

 13 — 15 x 2fi; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza tricolor — Sow. in "Eng. Fung.," t. 3C9, f. 6; 



