LACHNEA. 207 



Name — Cocos, the name of the cocoa-nut tree; grow- 

 ing on cocoa-nut fibre. 



Epping (Mr. J. English). Edinburgh, Botanic Gardens 

 (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Brandon, Norfolk ! (Mr. C. B. Plow- 

 right). 



B. SPOKIDIA FUSIFORM. 



(a) Epispore asperate. 

 7. Lachnea macropus. (Pers.) 



Cups hemispherical, then expanded, hirto-verrucose, 

 cinereous ; hymenium mouse-brown ; stem very long, 

 attenuated upwards, even or irregularly lacunose, cine- 

 reous, nearly hairy ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, fusi- 

 form elliptic, becoming slightly asperate, 30 x 10 — 12/z; 

 paraphyses clavate at the apices. 



Peziza macropus — Pers., " Obs.," ii. p. 26, t. 1, f. 2 ; 

 "F*o. Dan.," t. 1200, f. 2; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. 57; 

 " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 189 ; Berk., « Outl," 365 ; Cooke, 

 " Handbk.," 1965 ; " Mycogr.," fig. 188 ; Grev., " Sc. Crypt. 

 Flo.," t. 70 ; " Grevillea," iii. t. 27, fig. 7 ; Sturm., 31, t. 

 20, fig. e ; Pat., p. 35, f. 34 (spor. not good). Peziza 

 stipitata — Bull., "Champ.," t. 192 and 457, f. 2; Sow., 

 " Fung.," t. 38. Peziza hispida—Sch^ff., " Icon.," t. 166 ; 

 Bolt., t. 96. Peziza sublicia — Holms., "Ot.," ii. t. 10. 

 Macropodia macropus — Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 331 ; 

 Sacc, " Myco. Ven. Sp.," p. 168. Helvetia macropus — 

 Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 37. Aleuria macropus — Gill., 

 " Champ.," p. 35, c. i. 



Exs.— Desm., « Crypt. Fr," i. 427; Karst., "Fung. 

 Fenn.," 73 ; Fckl., "F. B,h," 1234 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," 

 i. 289; Phil., "Elv. Brit," 152; Rabh, "Fung. Eur," 

 1413. 



On the ground in shady woods. Summer and 

 autumn. 



Solitary, 1 to 3 inches high ; cups 1 to 2 inches 

 broad. The cups become expanded, and sometimes re- 

 flexed ; the exterior is cinereous, and clothed with little 

 hairy or villous warts, the hairs consisting of oblong 



