LACHNELLA. 249 



Name — Vergineus, virgin-like ; pure white. 

 Forres, N.B. (Rev. Dr. Keith). Overley Hill, Salop ! 

 Brynkinalt, Denbighshire ! 



26. Lachnella bicolor. (Bull.) 



Cups gregarious or crespitose, very shortly stipitate, at 

 first globose, then expanded, white, tomeDtose ; hairs long, 

 asperate ; hymenium orange-yellow ; asci cylindraceo- 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, linear-fusiform, 8 — 10 X 1 — 2/u ; 

 paraphyses acerose. (Plate VIII. fig. 46.) 



Peziza bicolor — Bull., " Champ.," t. 410, f. 3 ; Sow., t. 

 17; Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. 92; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 195; 

 Karat., " Pez. et Ascob," p. 16 ; and " Mon. Pez.," 194 ; " Flo. 

 Dan.," t. 779, f. 2. Peziza calycina — Nyl., "Pez. Fenn.," 

 24 (in part). Dasyscypha bicolor — Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," 

 305 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," 2035. Lachnum bicolor — 

 Karst., " Myco. Fenu.," p. 172. Lachnea bicolor — Gill., 

 " Champ.," p. 70, c. i. 



Exs.— Berk., 155; Fckl., 1205; Desm., " Crypt. Fr.," 

 ed. i. 1057; Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 3; Cooke, "Fung. 

 Brit.," 568, ed. ii. 363 ; Sommf., 99 ; Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 

 23 ; Rehm, " Asco. " 302 ; Roumg., " Fung. Gal.," 830. 



On dead branches of oak. 



Cups \ to i a line broad ; stem short or nearly 

 absent ; asci 60/jl long, 6/x broad ; hairs long, nexuose, 

 rough. 



Name — Bis, double, color, colour. 



Pulborough (Mr. C. H. Spencer Perceval). Ringstead 

 (Mr. C. B. Plo wright). Leigh Woods, near Bristol ! (Mr. C. 

 Bucknall). Scarborough ! (Mr. Massee). Shifnal, Salop ! 



27. Lachnella echinulata. (Awd.) 



Cups minute, epiphyllous or hypophyllous, gregarious, 

 at first globose, at length flattened and very shortly 

 stipitate, white ; externally villous ; the hairs, each of 

 which bears a globose, echinulate head at the apex, 

 forming a very beautiful radiate margin to the disc, 

 which, when damp, is obscurely marked with a small eye- 

 like spot in the middle ; mature asci clavate, shortly 



