LACHNEA. 201 



Subgenus VII. — Peristomialis. 



Subcylindrical, sessile, fleshy, disc plane or slightly 

 concave; margin furnished with triangular teeth ; sporidia 

 cylindraceo-filiform. (Plate VI. fig. 37.) 



Name — 7repi, around, oro/xa, the mouth ; furnished with 

 scales round the mouth, like the peristome of mosses. 



Only one species. 



52. Alollisia peristomialis. (B. and Br.) 



Minute, cylindrical, pallid, mouth furnished with 

 long white triangular teeth ; hymenium nearly plane ; 

 asci lanceolate ; sporidia biseriate, fusiform, multi-guttu- 

 late, 20—27 X 4—5^. (Plate VI. fig. 37.) 



Peziza (Mollisia) peristomialis — B. and Br., "Ann. 

 Nat. Hist.," No. 1169, t. 5, f. 32; Cooke, " Handbk.," 

 No. 2119. 



On dead bark of holly. 



About 300 to 400/x high, by 200^u broad. 



Gregarious, at first globose, then elongated, and 

 botuliform or subpyriform, truncate at the top, the 

 hymenium scarcely depressed ; the triangular teeth re- 

 semble those of Peziza inflexa (Bolt.) ; the sporidia are 

 large, and furnished with 5 to 9 nuclei. 



" A most exquisite object under a moderate magnifier, 

 resembling some Actinia in miniature. Sporidia '001 

 inch long" (B. and Br., I. c). 



Name — See under Subgenus. 



Penzance (J. Half's, Esq.). 



Series II— VESTIT^E. 

 Genus VIII. — Lachnea. Fries. 



Cups stipitate or sessile, fleshy, waxy or fibrous ; 

 clothed externally with more or less well-developed hairs. 

 (Plates VI.-VIL, figs. 38-42.) 



Name — Xaxvrj 7 down; from the villous or hairy 

 clothing. 



