LACHNEA. 21 L 



flexuous hairs, encrusted with sand ; mouth constricted, 

 becoming split and dentate ; hymenium fuscescent ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, 1-guttulate, 

 smooth, 20 X 12^; paraphyses clavate at the apices. 



Var. Bloxami. (Cooke.) 



Differs from the type in the colour of the disc, which 

 is fleshy-ochraceous, and the larger sporidia. 

 Peziza Bloxami — Cooke, " Hycogr.," rig. 121. 

 On sandy ground. 

 Name — After the Rev. A. Bloxam. 

 Near Liverpool (Rev. H. H. Higgins). 



12. Lachnea lapidaria. (Cooke.) 



Hemispherical, then expanded ; externally brown, clad 

 with fascicles of rather rigid, straight, pointed, brown, 

 septate hairs ; hymenium orange-red ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 16 x 8ju; paraphyses enlarged 

 gradually from the centre upwards. 



Peziza hybrida — Cooke in " Grevillea," vol. xii. p. 43. 

 Peziza lapidaria — Cooke in litt. 



Growing between paving-stones in an area. 



Cups f of an inch in diameter; hairs 200/* long, 

 S/j. broad. 



Name — Lapidariivs, pertaining to stones ; growing 

 between stones. 



Bristol ! (Mr. Cedric Bucknall). 



13. Lachnea hemispherica. (Wigg.) 



Cups scattered, sessile, at first globose, soon hemi- 

 spherical, entire, the margin also becoming replicate ; ex- 

 ternally subfuscous, sparsely covered, especially near the 

 margin, with fasciculate brown hairs ; hymenium bluish 

 white ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 2-guttulate, 

 smooth, 20 — 24 X 10 — 13^u mm. ; paraphyses septate, 

 clavate at the apices. 



Peziza hemispherica — Wigg. in Hoffm., " Crypt.," ii. 

 t. 7, fig. 6 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 82; "Flo. Dan.," t. 1558, 



