202 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



niuiri concave, white ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform, 

 5 X 1/ul ; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza dumorum — Rob. in Desm., " Ann. Sc. Nat./' 

 t. xiv. 1850. 



On the under side of dead bramble-leaves. 



Cups 250/j. broad. The hairs are short, reddish, bay- 

 brown; the disc becomes cinereous or brownish. 



Name — Dwmus, a bramble ; from the habitat. 



Batheaston, near Bath ! (Mr. C. Broome). Dolgelly, 

 North Wales ! 



48. Lachnella Schumacheri. (Fries.) 



Cups gregarious or crowded, sessile, hemispherical, 

 externally tomentose, brown ; hymenium becoming nearly 

 plane, purplish-brown or cinereous ; asci cylindraceo- 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform or cylindraceo-fusiform, 

 straight or sometimes curved, 8 — 13 X 2 — S/u ; paraphyses 

 filiform. 



Peziza Schumacheri — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 98 ; 

 " Eng. Flo./' v. p. 196; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2015 ; Gill., 

 " Champ.," p. 89, c. i. 



Exs.— Phil., "Elv. Brit.," 167. 



On dead wood. Not uncommon. Autumn. 



Cups about J- to f of a line broad, dark brown ; 

 hymenium purplish-brown or cinereous ; margin fringed 

 with very short, brown, septate hairs, hardly distinguish- 

 able even with a pocket lens, hence it is doubtful whether 

 it should not be removed to Mollisia, near cinerea. 



Name — After C. F. Schumacher. 



Var. |3. plumbea. (Grev.) Distinguished by the lead- 

 coloured or bluish hymenium. 



Peziza plumbea — Grev., t. 11; "Flo. Dan.," t. 1780. 

 f. 1. 



North Wootton! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Darenth 

 (Dr. Cooke). Shrewsbury ! 



49. Lachnella escharodes. (B. and Br.) 



Cups scattered, sessile, globose, then hemispherical, 

 rugose, rough with short, whitish, deciduous flocci, then 



