214 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



from its thick substance. The outer coat is densely 

 clothed with flexuous hairs ; the sporidia are shortly and 

 bluntly fusiform (B. and Br.). 



Name — In honour of Mrs. Holme Sumner. 



Fitcham Park (Mrs. Holme Sumner). Chiswick 

 House ! (Mr. Edmonds). Ware, Herefordshire (Mr. C. E. 

 Broome). Guy's Cliff, Warwick (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Orton 

 (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 



16. Lachnea hybrida. (Sow.) 



Cups crowded or scattered, sessile, hemispherical ; 

 externally brown, paler towards the incurved margin, 

 clothed with short, rigid, septate, brown hairs ; hymenium 

 deep flesh-red ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, fusiform- 

 elliptic, 2-guttulate, smooth, 21 — 25 X 8 — 10/z ; para- 

 physes not seen. 



Peziza hybrida — Sow. in "Eng. Fung.," t. 369, f. 1. 

 Peziza brunnea — A. and S., of "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 193; 

 Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2020 ; " Mycogr./' fig. 126, b. 



On the ground. 



Cups 2 to 6 lines broad. Sowerby says, " This Peziza 

 resembles P. hispida {i.e. P. hemispherica), and is hairy 

 on the outside, but whiter; the inside partakes of the 

 redness of P. scutellata. We have had it growing two 

 or three years at Mead Place, without any considerable 

 variation " (I. c). 



P. hispida (Sow.) has been usually quoted as a 

 synonym of P. brunnea (A. and S.), erroneously, as it 

 now appears, the original specimen having fortunately 

 been found in Kew Herbarium. By the favour of Dr. 

 Hooker we have been permitted to examine it, and have 

 drawn up the above description. 



B. CUPS SMALLER ; HAIRS OFTEN FASCICULATE. 



(a) Sporida elliptic. 

 17. Lachnea gregaria. (Rehm.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile, hemispherical, concave; 

 margin involute, becoming open, difformed, repand ; ex- 



