LACHNEA. 223 



straight, long, septate, black-brown hairs ; hymenium ver- 

 milion-red ; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, bioadiy elliptic, 

 granular within smooth, 20 — 22 X 11 — 13^u; paraphyses 

 clavate at the apices, filled with orange granules. 



Peziza scutellata — Linn., "Suec," 458; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco./' ii. 85 ; Sow., " Fung.," t. 24 ; Bull., " Champ.," p. 

 247, t. 10; "Flo. Dan.," t. 1457, f. 2; Karat., "Myco. 

 Fenn.," p. 70 ; Weinm., p. 437 ; Kickx., " Flo. Flan.," i. p. 

 491 ; " Eng. Flo," v. 193; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2025 ; 

 Weberb., i. t. 3, f. 3; " Grevillea," iii. fig. 114; Cooke, 

 " Mycogr.," fig. 131 ; Pat., p. 34, f. 81. Elevela ciliata — 

 Schreff., " Icon.," t. 284. Peziza ciliata— Hoffm., " Crypt,/' 

 ii. p. 25, t. 7, f. 3 ; Holms., " Ot.," ii. p. 56, t. 18. Octospora 

 scutellata — Sch., " Flo. Bar.," ii. 504. Octospora hirta — 

 Hedw., " Mus. Frond.," t. 3, B. Humaria scutellata — 

 FckL, "Symb. Myco.," p. 321. Lachnea scutellata — Gill., 

 " Champ.,"" p. 75. 



Exs.— FckL, "F. Rh.," 1210; Desm., " Crypt. Fr.," i. 

 702; Karat., "Fung. Fenn.," 144; Phil., "El v. Brit.," 64; 

 Roumg., " Fung. Gal," 2948 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. 

 No. 554. 



On rotten wood in damp places. Autumn. 



Cups 2 J to 3 lines broad ; marginal hairs long (600^), 

 septate, brown, attenuated in the upper half. 



Name — Scutella, a little saucer. 



King's Clitfe ; Bodelwyddan, North Wales ; Coed Coch, 

 North Wales ; Stanton, Aboyne (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 

 Langridge, Somerset (Mr. C. E. Broome). Argyleshire 

 (Paterson). Wingfield; Abinger, Surrey; Sutton Park, 

 Birmingham; Edinburgh, Glasgow (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 

 Fern, N.B. (Rev. J. Fergusson). Preston, Salop (Rev. W. 

 Houghton). Wrexham ! (Mr. B. Acton). Llyn Idwell, 

 North Wales ! Downton, near Ludlow ! Aberystwith ! 

 Bomere Pool, near Shrewsbury ! Almond Park, near 

 Shrewsbury ! 



29. Lachnea stercorea. (Fries.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile, fleshy, when young closed 

 and subglobose, then concave, at length plane, dingy red, 



