238 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Name — Latebricola, one that dwells in hiding. 

 On twigs of Rhododendron. 

 Batheaston ! (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



9. Lachnella brunneola. (Desm.) 



Cups scattered, stipitate, at first globose, then plane, 

 marginate, pale brown, villose ; hairs septate, obtuse ; 

 hymenium pallid-white ; stem very short, glabrous, ivory- 

 white ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform or 

 oblong-fusiform, 6 — 10 X 2/u; paraphyses acerose, stoutish, 

 exceeding the asci. 



Peziza brunneola — Desm., "Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1841, 

 ser. ii. vol. xvii. p. 96 ; Phil., " Grevillea," iii. 125, t. 42, 

 rig. 2. Lachnum brunneolum — Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 

 180. Lachnea brunneola — Gill., " Champ.," p. 67. 



Exs. — Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. 1156., eel. ii. 656; 

 Karst., " Fung. Fenn.," 826 ; Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 28. 



On both sides of decayed oak and Spanish chestnut 

 leaves. Summer and autumn. 



Cups 500 — 800/ul broad ; stem very short, glabrous ; 

 hairs very pale greyish-brown, septate, obtuse, with a 

 group of granules of oxalate of lime on the summits. 



Name — Brunneus, deep brown ; brownish. 



Trefriw, North Wales ! Brockley Coombe, near Bristol 

 (Mr. C. Bucknall). 



Var. fagicola. Phil. 



Cups scattered, stipitate, at first globose, then hemi- 

 spherical, dark brown, clothed with rather short, stout, 

 septate, brown, obtuse hairs ; hymenium the same colour ; 

 stem slender, enlarged upwards ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, fusiform, acute at the ends, 7 — 10 X 2/z ; para- 

 physes acerose, broad, exceeding the asci. 



Peziza brunneola, var. fagicola — Phil, in herb. 



On beech-mast. May. 



Cups 300 — 500/z broad ; the hairs rather short, stout, 

 septate, obtuse, masses of oxalate of lime at the apices ; 

 the paraphyses are broad, and are one-third longer than 

 the asci. 



