210 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



broadly elliptic, 1 to 2 or several guttse, smooth, 22 — 

 24 x 12/x ; paraphyses stout, septate, apices clavate. (Plate 

 VI. fig. 39.) 



Peziza sepulta — Fries, " Nov. Symb. Myco.," 1851, 

 p. 126; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 766; Berk., 

 " Outl," p. 365 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2019 ; " Gre- 

 villea," iii. fig. 212'; Cooke, " Mycogr," fig. 112. 



Exs.— Phil., "Elv. Brit./' 63; Cooke, "Fung. Brit," 

 ed. ii. No. 544. 



On the ground, after autumnal rains. 



Cups 1 to 2 inches broad, globose, clothed with dense 

 woolly fibres, the upper portion often breaking off 

 irregularly and so exposing the disc (B. and Br.). 



This is very closely allied to Peziza arenaria (Osbeck) 

 and P. arenicola (Lev.). It bears also a close resem- 

 blance to the genus Hydrocystis — Tul. (B. and Br.). 



Name — Sepultus, buried. 



East Bergholt (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Forden, North 

 Wales ! (Rev. J. E. Vize). 



10. Lachnea geaster. (B. and Br.) 



Cups scattered, sessile, subterranean, globose, bursting 

 into a few lacinise ; externally villose, brown ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, 1-guttate, smooth, 

 18 — 23 X 10 — 11/x; paraphyses clavate at the apices. 



Peziza geaster — B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 3866, 

 Nos. 956 and 1162, t. 4, f. 26 (nee Gonn. and Rabh, iii. 

 t. 3, f. 5); " Grevillea," iii. tig. 223; Cooke, "Handbk.," 

 2018; " Mycogr.," fig. 114. 



Amongst comminuted stone and earth. October. 



Cups about J an inch in diameter. The surface is 

 not warty, as in P. arenaria (B. and Br.). 



Name — yj), the earth, a<m']p, a star; Geaster, a genus 

 of fungi, which it somewhat resembles. 



Wentworth (Mr. J. Henderson). Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. 

 Plowright). 



11. Lachnea arenicola. (Lev.) 



Cups sessile, subterranean, subglobose, then cup- 

 , i haped, waxy, fibrillose, clothed with long, brown, 



