LACHNELI A. 



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Section II. — Sessile. 



Subgenus III. — Lachnella. Fries (in part). 



Cups sessile, pilose or villose, for the most part firm 

 and dry, at first closed and globose, then more or less 

 expanded and hemispherical. (Plate VIII. figs. 47, 48.) 



Name — Xaxvn, down. 



Arrangement of the Species. 



a. Hairs of cup coloured. 



(a) Sporidia elliptic or oblong. 



(a) Paraphyses filiform or absent . . species 37, 33 



(7>) Sporidia fusiform or clavate. 



( a ) Paraphyses filiform or absent „ 39-49 



(/3) Paraphyses acerose . . . . „ 50-52 



b. Hairs of cup hyaline. 



(a) Sporidia elliptic, oblong, or subeymbiform. 

 (a) Paraphyses filiform or absent. 



(i.) Cups coloured . . . . .. 53-54 



(ii.) Cups white or greyish-white „ 55-59 



(b) Sporidia fusiform or clavate. 



(a) Paraphyses filiform or clavate. 



(i.) Cups coloured . . . . „ 60-62 



(ii.) Cups white or greyish-whife „ 63-66 



(/3) Paraphyses acerose. 



(i.) Cups coloured . . . . ,, 67 



(c) Sporidia cylindrical . . . . ,. 68 



C. Position doubtful . . . . . . . . „ 69-71 



Key to the Species. 

 a. hairs of the cup coloured. 



Hymenium brownish-olive ; hairs long 

 Hymenium purplish-brown ; hairs very short 

 Hymenium pale rufous 

 Hymenium brown 

 Hymenium yellow 

 Hymenium cinereous 

 Hymenium white or pallid . . 

 (Growing on herbaceous stems 

 \Growing on wood or bark 

 Hymenium pale spadicious ; 



densely tomentose . . 

 Hymenium rufous, exterior 

 2. •{ tomentose 



1. 



exterior spadicious, 

 refescent, floccoso- 



Hymenium smoky-brown; exterior brown; sporidia 



becoming 1-septate . . 

 ^Hymenium brown ; exterior furfuraceo-tomentose. . 



prasina. 



Schumacheri, 



Stochii. 



1 



4 



esoharorfes. 



5 



2 



3 



epadicea. 



corticalis. 



canescevs. 

 grisella. 



