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Medlar— Curr., "Linn. Trans," xxiv. 491, t. 51, £15, 

 1G; Cooke, "Handbk," 2175. Lachnea awrelia, Gill, 

 • ; Champ," p. 91, c. i. (excl. sporidia). 



Exs. — Mong. and Nest, No. 783 ; Rav, v. No. 41 ; 

 Lib, "Crypt. Aid," No. 127; Fckl, " F. Rh„" 1191; 

 Cooke, " Fung. Brit," 563 ; Phil, " Elv. Brit," 29 ; Roumg, 

 " Fung. Gal," 448. 



On the ground beneath decaying oak-leaves, mast, 

 etc. Spring. 



Cups 1 to 2 lines broad, woolly ; subiculum radiating. 

 A most beautiful species (Berk, in " Eng. Flo."). The ends 

 of the sporidia are often furnished with a short cilium. 



Name — Aureus, golden. 



Foxhall, near Edinburgh (Capt. Wauch). Near 

 Ludlow ! Minsterley, Salop ! Whitfield, near Hereford ! 



B. CUPS EXTERNALLY NAKED. 



(a) Sporidia fusiform or oblong. 



(a) Sporidia simple. 



7. Tapesia sanguinea. (Pers.) 



Cups sessile, concave, smooth, becoming blackish ; base 

 surrounded by a short blood-red tomentum ; asci clavate, 

 obtuse; sporidia 8, ovoid-oblong or oblong-ellipsoide, 

 simple, hyaline, 6 — 10 X 2 — 3/tt ; paraphyses filiform, 

 thickened at the apex, fuscescent. 



Peziza sanguinea — Pers, " Tent. Disp. Meth," p. 34 ; 

 and "Myco. Eur," p. 273; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 110; 

 Nees, f. 271 ; Berk, " Mag. Zool. and Bot," No. 11 ; 

 Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2076; Nyl, "Pez.Fenn," p. 51. 

 Tapesia sanguinea — Fckl, " Symb. Myco," p. 303 ; Pat, 

 p. 37, f. 91. Patellaria sanguinea — Karst, "Myco. Fenn," 

 p. 232. Phialea sanguinea — Gill, "Champ," p. 112. 



Exs.— Rabh, " Herb. Myco," ed. ii. 642 ; and " Fung. 

 Eur," nov. ed, 226; Karst, "Fung. Fenn," 148; Fckl, 

 " F. Rh," 1187. 



On wood, fir, etc. November. 



Cups 200 to 400/x broad (Nyl.); sporidia 8 X Su. (Fckl.). 



