254 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



obtuse ; the paraphyses are broad, and sometimes septate, 

 filled with granular protoplasm. 



Name — airaXog, soft, tender. 



Batheaston, near Bath (Mr. C. E. Broome). Mangots- 

 field, near Bristol ! (Mr. C. Bucknall). Grantown, N.B. ! 

 (Rev. Dr. Keith). Haughmond Hill, Salop ! Bomere, 

 Salop ! 



35. Lachnella filicea. (Cooke and Phil.) 



Cups gregarious, stipitate, at first globose, then hemi- 

 spherical, white, tomentose ; hairs short, septate, colour- 

 less ; hymenium white ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 

 8, fusiform, acute at the ends, 3-nucleate or pseudo- 

 septate, biseriate, 15 — 20 x 2 — 3/i ; paraphyses acerose, 

 exceeding the asci. 



Peziza filicea — Cooke and Phil, in Herb. Kew. 



On fern-leaves. 



Caps 100 to 200/i broad ; stem short, equalling the 

 height of cup. The hairs of the cup are often obtuse, 

 or pyriform, at the apices, with clusters of amorphous 

 crystals of oxalate of lime, and deciduous. The asci are 

 very large for such a small species. 



Name — Filices, the fern tribe ; growing on ferns. 



Duneden, N.B. ! in Herb. Kew ; Chedder ! (Mr. C. 

 Bucknall). 



C. POSITION DOUBTFUL. 



36. Lachnella erythrostigma. (B. and Br.) 



Minute, stipitate, punctiform, pale red ; hymenium 

 at length convex ; asci clavate ; sporidia uniseriate, 

 elliptic or subglobose. 



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

 1168, t. 4, f. 31 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," 2118. 



Parasitic on Sphceria phaiostroma. 



The stem is mostly curved, distinctly cellular ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidia minute, subglobose. Very minute, but 

 a pretty object under the microscope (B. and Br.). 

 " Minutely woolly with delicate hairs " (Cooke in litt.). 



Batheaston (?) (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



