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(/3) Stem, rooting. 



5. Lachnea helvelloides. (Fries.) 



Cup-shaped, complanate, then expanded, orbicular, 

 becoming reflexed, blackish brown; externally, together 

 with the equal stem, squamulose-scabrous ; asci cylin- 

 drical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 15 — 17 X 10^u; para- 

 physes subclavate. 



Peziza helvelloides — Fries, " Summa ~Veg. Scan.," 348 ; 

 "Grevillea," iii. fig. 6 ; Cooke, "Myeogr.," fig. 190. Hel- 

 vetia pezizoides — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 20 ; Afz. in 

 "Vet. Ac. Hand].," 1873, t. 10, £. 2; Sacc, "Myco. Ven. 

 Sp.," p. 169; Karat., "Myco. Fenn.," p. 36; Fckl., "Symb. 

 Myco.," 333. Aleuria helvelloides — Gill., " Champ.," p. 40. 



Exs.— Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," ii. 237 ; Karat., " Fung. 

 Fenn.," 446; Fckl., "F. Rh," 1880; Rabh., "Herb. Myco.," 

 ii. 26. 



In pine woods and mossy places. Autumn. 



Cup scarcely 1 inch broad ; stem 1 to 2 inches high, 

 1 to 2 lines thick. 



Name — Helvetia, a genus of fungi, tlSog, likeness ; 

 Helvella-like. 



Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 



6. Lachnea cocotina. (Cooke.) 



Cups rooting, fleshy, hemispherical, becoming applanate; 

 margin entire ; hymenium pale orange ; externally, to- 

 gether with the stem, whitish tomentose ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, hyaline, smooth, 18 X 10/z; paraphyses 

 clavate. 



Peziza cocotina — Cooke in " Grevillea," v. p. 61 ; 

 "Myeogr.," fig. 356. 



On cocoa-nut fibre in a caterpillar-cage, and on saw- 

 dust. October. 



Cups 1 inch diameter. In some points resembling 

 Peziza radiculata (Sow.), in others Peziza cerea (Sow.), 

 but differing from both (Cooke). 



The tomentum consists of short flexuous hairs com- 

 posed of 3 to 5 oblong cells, constricted at the joints. 



