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margin, not branched or stellate. Cups remain flattened 

 in drying (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



Name — Coprus, dung; from its habitat. 



Loughton, Essex (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Rannoch, N.B t 

 (Dr. Buchanan White). Batheaston (Mr. C. K Broome). 



31. Lachnea rubra. (Cooke.) 



Cups gregarious, fleshy, subglobose, becoming ex- 

 panded ; margin elevated, orange-red, beset with short, 

 brown, septate hairs ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 smooth, 18 — 20 x 10^u ; paraphyses clavate at the apices. 



Peziza rubra — Cooke in "Mycogr.," fig. 152. Peziza 

 tkeleboloides (A. and S.), var. rubra — Cooke in " Fung. 

 Brit," ser. i. No. 572 ; "Grevillea," iii. fig. 119. 



Exs.— Cooke, " Fung. Brit./' i. 572, ii. 186. 



On spent hops. 



Cups about 2 J lines broad ; hairs reddish brown, 

 about 200/* long, two or three times as thick as in P. 

 tkeleboloides, with which species it has been confounded. 

 Although growing* in company, there appears to be good 

 grounds for regarding them as distinct (Dr. M. C. Cooke, 

 I. c). 



Name — Ruber, red. 



Batheaston, near Bath (Mr. C. E. Broome) 



(j3) Hymenium yellow. 

 32. Lachnea tkeleboloides. (A. and S.) 



Cups gregarious or crowded, fleshy, at first subglobose, 

 then hemispherical, at length expanded, flexuose ; ex- 

 ternally whitish, clothed with slender, septate, nearly 

 colourless hairs ; hymenium pale yellow ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 12 — 14 X 7/x; paraphyses 

 filiform, clavate at the apices. 



Peziza tkeleboloides — A. and S., " Consp.," p. 322, t. 

 12, f. 4 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 88 ; Cooke, " Handbk." 

 No. 2029 ; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1065, t. 15, 

 fig. 17; "Grevillea," iii. fig. 118; Cooke, "Mycogr.," fig. 

 151. Lachnea tkeleboloides — Gill., " Champ.," p. 74. 



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