234 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Nyl., "Pez. Fenn.," p. 25; Karst., "Mon. Pez.," 184; 

 Cooke, " Handbk.," 2036. Dasyscypka cerina — Fckl., 

 " Symb. Myco.," p. 305. Helotium cerinum — Karst., 

 " My co. Fenn./' p. 156. Lachnea cerina — Gill., " Champ.," 

 p. 70, c. i. 



Exs.— Rabh., "Herb. Myco," 628; Fckl., «F. Rh," 

 1204; Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 319; Phil, " Elv. Brit.," 

 118; Roumg., " Stirpes," 264. 



On dead wood. September to June. 



Cups \ to \ a line broad ; texture dry and firm. 

 The stem when present is blackish, expanding into the 

 dull olive-yellow cups. The hairs are decidedly rough, 

 and yellowish-brown. Karsten says the hairs are 

 articulate ; I do not see them so in the specimens I 

 examined, which were named by Persoon himself in 

 Gay's collection in Herb. Kew. 



Name — Cera, wax ; wax-coloured. 



Middletown, Montgomeryshire! Shelton, near Shrews- 

 bury ! Craven Arms, Salop ! Llanyblodwell ! Dinmore, 

 Hereford ! Stapleton Park, near Bristol ! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 

 Near Aberdeen ! (J. W. H. Trail). 



(b) Sporidia fusiform. 



(a) Paraphyses filiform. 



3. Lachnella trichodea. (Phil, and Plow.) 



Cups gregarious or scattered, shortly stipitate, at first 

 globose, then hemispherical, pale brown, clothed with 

 rather long, fulvous, rigid hairs ; hymenium pallid-white ; 

 asci clavate-cylindrical ; sporidia 8, biseriate, oblong- 

 elliptic, biguttulate, 7 X 15/x. 



Peziza trichodea — Phil, and Plow, in " Grevillea," iii. 

 p. 125, t. 42, f. 4. 



Exs.— Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 69. 



Cups 20 to SOfx broad ; the asci, 30 X 5/x. The hairs 

 are mostly without septa, and thickened at the base. 



On dead pine-leaves. Autumn. 



Name — Spifi, hair, stSog, resemblance ; like hair. 



