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65. Lachnella aranea. (De Not.) 



Cups minute, scattered, sessile, at first hemispherical, 

 then expanded, white, clothed with long, flexuous, en- 

 tangled hairs ; hymenium white, when dry pale yellow ; 

 asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, biseriate, oblong or 

 oblong-fusiform, 7 X 1/x; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 



Peziza aranea — De Not., " Micro. Ital." i. No. 1 ; 

 " Grevillea," viii. pp. 101, 111. Trichopeziza aranea — 

 Sacc, " Mich.," vi. p. 253. Phialea aranea — Gill., 

 'Champ.," p. 111. 



Exs.— Klotsch., " Herb. Myco.," ii. 17 ; Phil., " Elv. 

 Brit.," 165 ; Ellis, " N. A. Fungi," 843. 



On the inside of the husks of Spanish chestnut 

 (Castanea vesca). 



Cups about 100 to 300/z broad. They are at first 

 mere tufts of snow-white, entangled hairs. 



Name — Araneum, a spider's web ; clothed with web- 

 like hairs. 



Holme Lacy, Herefordshire ! 



66. Lachnella scrupulosa. (Karst.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile, thin, subhemispherical or 

 subsoleniiform, white or yellowish-white, or cinerascent, 

 rough with papillae ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 narrowly fusiform or sub-acicular, 4 — 8 X 1 — 2/u ; para- 

 physes filiform, slender. 



Peziza scrupulosa — Karst., "Mon. Pez.," p. 178. 

 Helotium scrupulosum — Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 152. 

 Peziza tomipera — Phil, in heib. 



On dead thorn-wood. 



Cups about 200/x broad. The external papillae are 

 formed by the ends of short, hair-like, tomiperous cells, 

 which are remarkable from their habit of breaking off at 

 the joints under slight pressure. 



Name — Scrupulosus, full of little stones; rouo-h from 

 the papillae on the outside. 



Scarborough! (Mr. G. Massee). 



