236 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Name — Fuscus, brown; becoming brown. 

 Builth, South Wales ! 



(/3) Paraphyses acerose. 



6. Lachnella clandestina. (Bull.) 



Cups gregarious, stipitate, turbinate, then cyathiform, 

 fawn-coloured or brown, clothed with brown septate 

 hairs ; hymenium pallid, often brownish ; stem enlarged 

 upwards from the darker, woody base ; asci clavate- 

 cylindrical; sporidia 8, fusiform, 5 — 8x 1'5/x; para- 

 physes acerose, exceeding the asci. 



Peziza clandestina — Bull., " Champ.," p. 251 (not fig.); 

 Pers., " Obs.," i. p. 41 ; " Myco. Eur.," p. 262 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco.," ii. p. 94; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 195; Johnst., " Flo. 

 Ber.," p. 151 ; Nyl., "Pez. Fenn.," p. 26 ; Karst., " Pez. et 

 Ascob.," p. 18; and "Mon. Pez.," p. 196. Lachnum clan- 

 destinum — Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 178. Dasyscypha 

 clandestina — FckL, "Sym. Myco./' p. 305. Lacknea 

 clandestina — Gill., "Champ.," p. 69. 



Exs.— Desm., " Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. 1537, and ed. ii. 1037; 

 Rabh., "Herb. Myco.," ed. ii. 21; Sommf., 100; Karst., 

 " Fung. Fenn.," 52 ; Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 67 ; Winter, " Fungi 

 Eur.," 2840 ; Roumg., " Stirpes," 330. 



On dead stems of Rubus Idwus. 



Cups \ to J a line broad, about the same high ; gre- 

 garious, rather persistent ; stem ligneous ; cups entire, 

 closed except when moist, but then concave ; the hairs 

 are rather long, flexuose, pointed, septate, brown. 



Name — Clandestinios, hidden ; from lying under dead 

 leaves. 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Hawkstone, Salop 1 



7. Lachnella caulicola. (Fries.) 



Cups gregarious, stipitate, turbinato-globose, then 

 hemispherical, yellowish-brown or pale umber, pubescent 

 and subfarinaceous, becoming glabrous; hymenium the 

 same colour ; stem half the whole height, but variable ; 

 asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform or oblong- 



