LACHNELLA. 



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Arrangement of the Subgenera. 



I. Dasyscypha 

 II. LachneUa 

 III. Fibrina 



Key to the Subgenera. 



Cups furnished with a stem 



Cups sessile or subsessile 

 ("Flesh dry ; cups externally fibroso-striate . . 

 \Flesh softer ; cups externally pilose ur villous 



1-36 



37-70 



71-73 



Dasyscypha. 



1 



Fibrina. 

 LachneUa. 



species 1 

 2 



Section I. — Stipitate. 

 Subgenus I. — Dasyscypha. Fries. 



Cups slender, waxy, dry ; disc glabrous ; externally 

 pilose or villous, stipitate ; paraphyses filiform or acerose. 

 (Plates VII, VIII. tigs. 43-46.) 



Arrangement of the Species. 



a. Hairs of cup coloured. 



(a) Sporidia elliptic. 

 (a) Paraphyses filiform 

 (/3) Paraphyses acerose . . 



(b) Sporidia fusiform, 

 (a) Paraphyses filiform 

 (/3) Paraphyses acerose 



Hairs of cup hyaline. 



(a) Sporidia globose. 

 (a) Paraphyses filiform 



(b) Sporidia oblong- elliptic, 

 (a) Paraphyses filiform . . 



(c) Sporidia fusiform. 

 (a) Paraphyses filiform 

 1/3) Paraphyses acerose 



(d) Sporidia elongato fusiform or filiform 

 (a) Paraphyses acerose 



Position doubtful ; sporidia subglobose . . 



»j 



»! 



B. 



O. 



3-5 

 6-10 



11 



12-14 



15-22 

 23-32 



33-35 

 36 



Key to the Species. 



A. HATRS OF CUP COLOURED. 



Hymenium some shade of brown . . . . , 



Hymenium yellowish 



Hymenium pallid 



fExternally sugar-coloured; paraphyses filiform . 

 j Externally tawny ; paraphyses filiform 

 1. -{Externally fawn-colour ; paraphyses acerose 

 | Externally umber-brown; paraphyses acerose 

 (.Externally yellowish-brown; paraphyses acerose. 



cerina. 



2 



Stevensoni. 



fuscescens. 



clandestina. 



calyculxfurmis. 



caulicola. 



