LACHNEA. 229 



Cups 1 to 2 J lines broad ; external hairs straight, 

 attenuated upwards, 150 fi to 20(fyt long (Dr. Cooke, I. c). 



Name — Greta, chalk. 



Walls of Inverleith House, Edinburgh! (Professor 

 Balfour). 



Subgenus V. — Neottiella. Cooke. 



Cups sessile ; externally albo-tomentose. (Plate VII. 

 rig. 42.) 



Name — veoma, a nest ; resembling a little nest. 



A. SPORIDIA ASPERATE. 



38. Lachnea Cornubiensis. (B. and Br.) 



Cups sessile, fleshy, nearly plane, affixed to the soil 

 by villous down, the margin alone free ; externally clothed 

 with delicate, obtuse, septate hairs ; hymenium orange ; 

 asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, oblongo-elliptic, asperate, 

 18—22 X 13^; paraphyses linear. (Plate VII. fig. 42.) 



Peziza Cornubiensis — B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 767; Berk., "Outl.," p. 366; Cooke, "Handbk.," 

 No. 1993; "Mycogr.," fig. 309. 



On manured ground. 



Cups f of an inch broad, depressed. A very fine 

 species (B. and Br., I. c). 



Name — Cornubia, the Latin name of Cornwall. 



Penzance (Mr. Tracy Millett). 



B. SPORIDIA SMOOTH. 



39. Lachnea crueipila. (Cooke and Phil.) 



Cups scattered, sessile, fleshy, hemispherical, then 

 plane ; externally pale scarlet, clothed with pale brown, 

 forked or cruciate, septate hairs; hymenium bright 

 scarlet; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, 



