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beset with brown septate hairs of two kinds — marginal 

 long, rigid, ciliating, below stellate or peltate ; hyme- 

 nium red or dull red ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, broadly 

 elliptic, smooth, 20 — 22 x 8 — 9/u ; paraphyses clavate at 

 the apices, filled with red granules. 



Peziza stercorea — Pers., " Obs.," ii. p. 89 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco.," ii. 87 ; Karst., " Myco. Fenn," p. 71 ; Weinm, p 

 439 ; Crouan, " Flo. Fin.," p. 52 ; Kickx, " Flo. Flan.," i 

 491; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 194; Cooke, " Handbk," No 

 2028; "Grevillea," iii. fig. 117; " Mycogr.," fig. 147 

 Peziza lutea — Reich, in " Berl. Ges. Natur.," iii. p. 216 

 t. 4, f. 7. Peziza equina — "Flo. Dan.," t. 779, f. 3 ; Sow. 

 " Fung.," t. 352. Octospora scutellata — Hedw., " Mus 

 Frond.," ii. t. 3, f. A. Peziza scutellata — Bolt., " Fung.,' 

 t. 108, f. 1. Peziza ciliata — Bull., " Champ.," p. 257, t, 

 438, f. 2. Hwmaria stercorea — Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p 

 321. Lachnea stercorea — Gill., " Champ.," p. 76. 



Exs.— Fckl., " F. Rh.," 2081 (?) ; Karst., " Fung. Fenn.,' 

 633. 



On cow, horse, and rabbit dung, and rich soil. Spring 

 and summer. 



Name — Stercus, dung ; from its habitat. 



Wood Newton ; West Farleigh ; Caradoc ; Coed Coch 

 (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Epping Forest and Highgate (Dr. 

 M. C. Cooke). Jedborough (Sir W. Jerdon). Twycross 

 (Rev. A. Bloxam). Wrekin, Salop ! 



30. Lachnea copvinaria. (Cooke.) 



Cups subgregarious, sessile, fleshy, hemispherical, then 

 plane ; margin elevated, orange-red or scarlet, clothed 

 with pale, brown, septate hairs ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 

 8, elliptic, smooth, 18 — 20 X 10fx ; paraphyses clavate at 

 the apices, filled with orange granules. 



Peziza coprinaria — Cooke in " Grevillea," iv. p. 91 ; 

 " Mycogr.," fig. 149. 



On cow-dung. Autumn. 



Cups 5 lines broad ; external cells of cup very large ; 

 marginal hairs long, simple, septate, J mm. long, mixed 

 with others that are shorter, mostly confined to the 



