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BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Arrangement of Subgenera. 



I. Sarcoscypha 

 II. Sepultaria 



III. BMzopodella 



IV. Scutellinia 

 V. Neotiella 



Key to the Subgenera. 



Cups stipitate 



Cups seated on a mass of black hairs 



Cups immersed or semi-immersed in the soil 



Cups sessile ; hairs dark, rigid 



Cups sessile ; hairs nearly colourless . . 



1-7 



8-18 

 19 



20-37 

 38-39 



Sarcoscypha. 



Bhizopodella. 



Sepultaria. 



Scutellinia. 



Neotiella. 



Subgenus I. — Sarcoscypha. 



Cups large, fleshy, distinctly stipitate ; externally 

 tomentose or hairy. (Plate VI. fig. 38.) 

 Name — aap^, flesh, gkv^oq, a cup. 



Arrangement of the Species. 



A. Sporidia elliptic. 



(a) Epispore asperate . . . . . . species 1 



(b) Epispore smooth. 



(a) intern erect . . . . , . „ 2-4 



(j6) Stem rooting . . . . . . „ 5-6 



B. Sporidia fusiform. 



(a) Epispore asperate . . . . . . „ 7 



Key to the Species. 



Hymen ium black . . . . . . . . . . corium. 



Hymenium brown . , . . . . . . 1 



Hymenium yellow . . . . . . . . 2 



Hymenium carmine . . . . . . . . . . coccinea. 



(Exterior cinerascent ; stem bulbous at base . . bulbosa. 



Exterior blackish-brown, squamulose ; stem equal helvelloides. 

 Exterior cinereous, hirto-venucose ; stem attenuated 



upwards . . . . . . . . . . . . macropus. 



o ( Exterior white, villous ; disc sulphur-yellow .. radiculata. 



' (Exterior whitish, tomentose; disc pale orange . . cocotina. 



A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC. 



(a) Epispore asperate. 



1. Lachnea radiculata. (Sow). 



Cups subcsespitose, fleshy, hemispherical, then ap- 

 planate ; stem thick, rooting ; hymenium sulphureous ; 



