LACIIXEA. 203 



the base ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, rather broadly 

 elliptic, at first guttulate, smooth, 18 — 20 X 10^u; para- 

 physes clavate, with brown apices. 



Peziza covium — Weberb, " Pilze," t. iii. f. 7 ; Cooke, 

 " Mycogr.," fig. 187 ; " Grevillea," v. p. 59. Aleuria 

 covium, Gill, " Champ.," p. 39. 



Exs.— Phil, "Elv. Brit.," No. 153; Rabh., "Fung. 

 Eur.," 2209 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit," ed. ii. No. 552 ; Rav, 

 "Fung. Am," 760. 



On the ground in sandy soil. Spring. 



Cups ^ to 1 J inches broad ; stem J to 1 J inches long, 

 and about 1 to 3 lines broad at the base, smaller above. 

 The flesh is white ; the cells which form the velvety 

 surface of the exterior are composed of 4 to 8 in a 

 chain, constricted at their junction, the chain very rarely 

 branched. The brown apices of the paraphyses are often 

 composed of nearly moniliform cells. 



Name — Corium, leather; leather-like. 



North Wootton ! ^Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



4. Lachnea bulbosa. (Hedw.) 



Cups hemispherical, becoming expanded, waxy, when 

 dry subcoriaceous, cinerascent, minutely squamulose ; 

 hymenium blackish brown ; stem firm, rather slender, 

 arising from a tuber-form base ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 

 8, broadly elliptic, 1-guttulate, gutta large, smooth, 

 15 X 10 fx ; paraphyses clavate at the apices. 



Peziza bulbosa— -Nees, " Sys," f. 289 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco," ii. 58 ; " Grevillea," iii. fig. 8 ; Cooke, " Mycogr," 

 fig. 189. Octospora bulbosa — Hedw, " Mus. Frond," t. x. 

 f. c. Fungoides fuscum — Buxb, "Petr," iv. t. 29, f. 3; 

 Schseff., t. 152. Aleuria bulbosa — Gill, " Champ," p. 

 37, c. i. 



Exs.— Rabh, « Fung. Eur," 1308. 



On the ground in sandy soil. Summer and autumn. 



Cups J an inch to 1 inch broad ; stem J an inch to 1 

 inch long, 1 line thick ; flesh pale grey. 



Name — Bulbus, a bulb ; bulbous. 



King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright) 



