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Externally brown, having long flexuous hairs; 



hyrneniinn livid; cups immersed . . . . . . sepulta. 



o .Externally brown, having long straight hairs; 

 ' 1 hymeniurn livid ; cups sessile . . . . . . hemispherica. 



Externally brown, having short rigid hairs; hyine- 

 \ nium watery grey ; cups sessile . . . Wuolhoptia. 



A. CUPS LARGE, OFTEN IMMERSED. 



(a) Sporidia globose. 



8. Lachnea brunnea. (A and S.) 



Cups gregarious, subcrespitose, sessile, hemispherical, 

 then depressed, subrlexuose, brown, externally clothed 

 with minute, rigid, fasciculate, brown, septate hairs ; 

 hymeniurn the same colour ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 globose, asperate, 15 — 18/z; paraphyses slender, septate, 

 apices clavate. 



Peziza brunnea — A. and S. in " Consp.," p. 317. 

 Lachnea brunnea — Gill., " Champ.," p. 72. 



On the ground. November. 



Cups 1 to 2 lines broad. 



The above description embraces the characters of 

 Albertini and Schweinitz's species, with the addition of 

 microscopical characters of a plant referred to it by Mr. 

 C. E. Broome, which agrees admirably in external cha- 

 racters. No original examples are at present known to 

 exist either in American or British herbaria of Albertini 

 and Schweinitz's species ; there must always remain a 

 doubt, therefore, whether we have the true plant. 



Name — Brunneus, dark brown. 



Near Hereford ! (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



(b) Sporidia elliptic. 



9. Lachnea sepulta. (Fries.) 



Cups sessile, subterranean, globose, at first closed, 

 then opening by a narrow mouth, at length splitting 

 into many unequal laciniaa ; externally clothed with 

 long, flexuose, branched, septate, brown hairs ; hymeniurn 

 urceolate, brownish or livid ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 



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