220 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Cups 3 to 5 lines broad; marginal hairs short, rather 

 stout, septate, brown. 



Name — Umbrosus, shady; growing in the shade. 



Berwick (Dr. Johnstone). Wrexham ! (Mr. B. Acton). 

 Colwyn Bay (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



23. Lachnea hirta. (Schum.) 



Cups sessile, scattered, subhemispherical, fleshy; 

 margin somewhat innexed ; clothed externally with 

 brown septate hairs, those on the margin short and 

 slender; hymenium concave, scarlet; asci cylindrical; 

 sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, asperate, 25 X 10 ju ; para- 

 physes clavate at the apices, filled with orange granules. 



Peziza hirta — Schum., " Saell.," p. 422 ; "Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco," ii. 84 ; Pers., " Myco. Eur.," p. 245 ; Crouan, 

 " Flo. Fin," p. 51 ; B. and Br, " Ann. Nat. Hist," No. 

 557, 768; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2021; "Mycogr," fig. 

 128. Peziza scutellata — Cooke, "Fung. Brit," ii. 187; 

 " Grevillea," iii. fig. 218. Lachnea hirta — Gill, "Champ," 

 p. 75, c. i. 



Exs.— Cooke, " Fung. Brit," i. 576, ii. 187 ; Phil, 

 "Elv. Brit," 19; Wright, "Cub," 671; Rabh, "Fung. 

 Eur," 27. 



On the ground, etc. Autumn. 



Cups 2 J lines broad ; marginal hairs short, slender, 

 septate, brown, 200 to 300^ long (Cooke). 



Name — Hirtus, hairy. 



Wimbledon Common (Mr. C. E. Broome). Coed Coch 

 (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Wareham (Rev. W. Smith). 

 Epping Forest ; Dalmeny ; Ken Wood, Hampstead ; and 

 Highgate (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. 

 Keith). Llanrwst, North Wales ! near Shrewsbury ! 



(j3) Hymenium yellow. 



24. Lachnea vitellina. (Pers.) 



Cups subca3spi+ose, sessile, hemispherical, at length 

 expanded and flexuose ; margin furnished with brown, 

 septate bristles ; hymenium bright yellow ; asci cylin- 



