25S BRITISH DISCOMYCETKS- 



(6) Sporidia fusiform or clavate. 

 (a) Paraphyses filiform or absent, 



39. Lachnella spadicea. (Pers.) 



Cups scattered, sessile, subgloboso-hemispherical, at 

 length expanded ; externally clothed with a dense, com- 

 pact, spadiceous tomentum ; disc rather paler ; asci 

 cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic or fusiform, 

 8 X 2/m; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 



Peziza spadicea — Pers., " Myco. Eur.," p. 252 ; Fries, 

 "Svs. Myco.,"ii. p. 98. Lachnea spadicea — Gill., " Champ.," 

 p. 77. 



On dead stems of Ulex. 



Cups 500^ broad. The tomentum consists of short, 

 septate, closely set hairs, which are granular within. 



Name — Spadiceus, bay-colour. 



In Herb. Berkeley, without locality ! 



40. Lachnella corticalis. (Pers.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile, globose, then hemispherical, 

 firm, flocculose-tomentose, rufescent or whitish-grey ; 

 hymenium same colour; asci cylindraceo-clavate; 

 spoiidia 8, clavate or fusiform, straight or curved, 

 13x4//; paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza corticalis — Pers., " Obs.," i. p. 28, 112 ; "Myco. 

 Eur.," p. 267; D. C, "Flo. Fr.," ii. p. 80; A. and S., 

 "Consp.," p. 322; Fries, "Sys. Myco./' ii. p. 96; B. and 

 Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist," 311 and 562; Karst., " Mon. 

 Pez.," p. 186 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2041 ; Nyl., " Pez. 

 Fenn.," p. 27. Lachnella corticalis — Fries, " Summa 

 Veg. Scan.," p. 365; Fckl., "Symb. Myco.," p. 280. 

 Helotium corticate — Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 159. 

 Lachnea corticalis — Gill., " Champ.," p. 84. Lachnella 

 corticalis — Pat., p. 30, f. 71. 



Exs.— Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. 703, ed. ii. 72; 

 Rabh., " Herb. Myco.," ed. ii. 625 ; and " Fung. Eur. ," ed. 

 nov. 915; Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 260; Fckl., "F. Rh.," 

 1120; Phil., " El v. Brit.," 119. 



