LACHNELLA. 251 



On dead twigs of Myrica gale. Spring and autumn. 



Cups about 300/x broad, and about 500/z high. 



This differs from L. echinulata (Awd.) in having a 

 longer stipes, being persistently white when dry, and 

 having what appear to be cruciform bodies on the sum- 

 mits of the hairs. These bodies prove to be crystals of 

 oxalate of lime (octahedra). 



Name — Crux, cross, fero, to bear ; from the hairs 

 appearing to have crosses at their summits. 



Capel Curig, North Wales ! North Wootton, Norfolk ! 

 (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 

 Oockshutt, Salop ! 



30. Lachnella patula. (Pers.) 



Cups gregarious, stipitate, at first globose, then 

 hemispherical, white, villose ; the hairs long, slender, 

 colourless, non-septate, acute, spreading ; hymenium 

 lutescent ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform 

 or oblong-elliptic, 8 — 12 x 1'5/z; paraphyses acerose, 

 exceeding the asci. 



Peziza patula — Pers., " Obs ," i. p. 42 ; " Syn. Fung.,' 

 p. 654; "Myco. Eur.," p. 262; A. and S., p. 324; Nees, 

 " Sys.," f. 284 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. 91. Hyalopeziza 

 patula — Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 298. Lachnea patula 

 —Gill., " Champ.," p. 72. 



Exs.— Fckl., "F. Rh," 1189; Rehm, "Asco.," 258 and 

 259 ; Libert, " Crypt. Ard.," 225. 



On oak -leaves decaying in damp places. 



Cups SOO/ul to 500/u broad ; stem very short, hairs 

 much spreading, flexuose, and somewhat entangled. 

 The hairs are longer and slenderer than in L. ciliaris. 

 This is an exceedingly minute species. 



Name — Patulus, spreading ; from the long, spreading 

 hairs. 



Wellington, Salop ! 



31. Lachnella ciliaris. (Schum.) 

 Cups minute, stipitate, at first globose, then cyathi- 

 form, waxy, snow-white, externally beset with long, 

 somewhat spreading, scattered, septate, white hairs ; 



