LAGHNEA. 203 



externally white, villous ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, asperate, 16 X 10/z; paraphyses filiform. (Plate 

 VI. fig. 38.) 



Peziza radiculata — Sow., " Fung.," 1. 114 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco.," ii. 81; Crouan, " Flo. Fin," p. 52; "Eng. Flu.," 

 v. p. 192 ; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 1160*, t. 4, f. 23 ; 

 Cooke, "Handbk," 2015 ; "Grevillea," iii. fig. 92; Cooke, 

 " Myeogr.," fig. 99. Peziza Soiuerbca — Pcrs, " Myco. Eur.," 

 p. 232. Lachnea radicidata — Gill, " Champ," p. 6tj, c. i. 



Exs.— Rabh, " Fung. Eur," 618. 



On the ground, in gardens and in fir woods, etc. 

 Summer and autumn. 



Cups 1 to 1^ inches broad ; hairs septate, hyaline, 

 rather long (M. C. Cooke). Somewhat reticulated ex- 

 ternally, with irregular prominent veins, 1 inch or more 

 broad (Berk, in " Eng. Flo."). 



Name — Radicula, a little root ; from the rooting base. 



Dropmore, Jedburgh (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Near 

 Twycross (Rev. A. Bloxam). North Wootton (Mr. C. B. 

 Plowright). Epping (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Stoke Ne wing- 

 ton (Mr. W. G. Smith). 



Var. Percevalii. PhiL 



Differing in the oblique cups (which resemble the 

 species in Otidea) and the clavate paraphyses. 

 Name — After Mr. Cecil H. Spencer Perceval. 

 Stopham S (Mr. Cecil H. Spencer Perceval). 



(a) Epispore smooth. 



(a) Stem erect. 



2. Lachnea coccinea. (Jacq). 



Cups stipitate, infundibuliform ; externally, as well as 

 the stem, whitish, tomentose, with short adpressed down ; 

 disc carmine; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, oblong-ellip- 

 tic, smooth, 25 — 27 X dfx ; paraphyses linear. 



Peziza coccinea — Jacq, " Misc. Austr," t. 169 ; Fries, 

 •'' Sys. Myco," ii. 79 ; Nees, " Sys.," f. 288 ; Bolt, " Fung," 

 t. 104 ; Buxb, " Petr," iv. t. 29, f. 4; Batt, t. 3, f. N, O; 



