LACHMEA. 215 



ternally brown, covered with a very dense coat of rigid, 

 fasciculate, brown, septate, strigose hairs ; hymeniuin 

 livid-brown, becoming pallid ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 

 8, fusiform-elliptic, smooth, 22 x 10// ; paraphyses filiform, 

 septate, apices slightly thickened. 



Peziza gregaria — Rehm, " Asco.," No. 6 ; " Grevillea," 

 iii. rig. 221 ; Winter in " Flora," 1873 ; Cooke, " Mycogr," 

 rig. 123. Peziza hem ispkerica, var. /3. proximella — Karst., 

 "Mon. Pez," p. 125 ; Karst., "Myco.Fenn," p. 69 (?). Peziza 

 hemispherica, var. "minor — Nyl. Peziza bruanea — 

 Cooke in " Grevillea," iii. fig. 98. 



Exs — Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," ii. 3G8 ; Rehm, " Asco.," 

 6 ; Rabh, " Fung. Eur.," 1220 ; Desm., " Crypt. Fr./' 1312 ; 

 Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," 1704. 



On the ground in shady woods. Autumn. 



Cups £ to 1^ line broad. Sporidia sometimes ex- 

 ternally minutely rough. 



Name — Grex, a flock ; growing in groups. 



Dinmore, Herefordshire I Cirencester ! (Mr. Joshua). 

 Lyonshall, Herefordshire ; and on burnt ground, Kew 

 Gardens (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



18. Lachnea Woolhopeia. (Cooke and Phil.) 



Cups scattered, sessile, hemispherical, becoming nearly 

 applanate ; externally clothed with erect, acute, septate, 

 brown, fasciculate hairs ; hymenium watery -grey ; asci 

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

 smooth, 20 — 22 x 13 — lo/u ; paraphyses filiform, apices 

 clavate. 



Peziza Woolkopeia — Cooke and Phil, in " Grevillea," 

 vi. p. 75 ; Cooke's " Mycogr," fig. 404 ; Pat, p. 74, f. 171. 



On burnt ground in woods. Autumn. 



Cups J to 1 line broad. Hairs fasciculate 150 to 200/1 

 long, thick and brown at the base, pointed and hyaline 

 above. 



Name — After the Woolhope Field Club. 



Downton, Salop ! (Mr. Cecil H. Spencer Perceval). 



