LACHNEA. 227 



We prefer to retain this, as its alliance is tolerably 

 evident. 



Name — Erectus, erect ; from its erect form. 



34. Lachnea Dahneniensis. (Cooke.) 



Cups sessile, fleshy, hemispherical, becoming ex- 

 panded, bright yellow, beset with long erect, septate, 

 pale yellow hairs ; margin elevated ; hymenium same 

 colour; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 

 12 x7/i; paraphyses clavate at the apices. 



Peziza Dalmeniensis — Cooke in " Grevillea," iii 

 p. 66, t. 34, fig. 121 ; " Mycogr.," fig. 153. 



Exs.— Phil., "Elv. Brit.," No. 110. 



On the ground in shady woods, often amongst 

 nettles. Autumn. 



Cups 5 lines broad ; hairs 600^t long, septate, tawny 

 yellow. Resembles in some features P. theleboloides 

 (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



The hairs in my specimens were pale yellow, nearly 

 colourless under the microscope. 



Name — After Dalmeny in Scotland. 



Dalmeny, N.B. (Dr. M. C. Cooke). King's Lynn! 

 (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Warlaby, near Lowth ! (Mr. C. H. 

 Spencer Perceval). Wrekin, Salop ! 



(y) Hymenium white or pallid. 



35. Lachnea bulbo-crinita. Phil. 



Cups scattered, sessile, hemispherical, then expanded, 

 fleshy; externally dusky brown, clothed with long, straight, 

 brown, septate hairs, bulbous at the base; hymenium 

 pallid or cinereous ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 smooth, 20 X 13/z ; paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza bulbo-crinita — Phil., " Scott. Nat.," vi. 123. 



On dead branches. Autumn. 



Cups 1J lines broad, at first closed, then concave; 

 margin ciliated with long erect hairs (J a line), inter- 

 mixed with shorter (300/x), all having a bulbous basal 

 cell. The disc is slate-colour. Allied to Peziza erinacea, 



