230 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



smooth, 20 X 9/x; paraphyses clavate at the apices, filled 

 with orange-red granules. 



Peziza crucipUa — Cooke and Phil, in "Mycogr," 

 fig. 237; Pat., p. 209, f. 481. Lachnea crucipila — Gill., 

 " Champ.," figure only. 



Exs.— Cooke, "Fung. Brit," ed. ii. 647. 



On the earth in shady damp places in woods. 

 Summer and autumn. 



Cups i to 1 line broad. The forked hairs, which are 

 intermixed with simple ones, are 200/x long. 



Name — Crux, a cross, pilus, the hair. 



Downton Castle, Herefordshire ! Newport, Salop ! 

 Highgate and Heywood Forest (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



Doubtful species. 



Lachnea ccerulea. (Bolt.) 



Plane, ciliated, black and smooth externally ; hairs 

 soft, pallid ; disc bright blue. 



Peziza ccerulea — Bolt., t. 108, f. 2 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco.," ii. p. 86; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 193; Cooke, 

 " Handbk," No. 2026. Lachnea ccerulea — Gill, "Champ," 

 p. 73. 



On putrid wood, in moist places under fir-trees ; very 

 rare. October. 



Cups about 2 lines broad. 



This has not been observed since Bolton's time. 

 May he not have had before him young specimens of 

 Corticium cceruleum (Fries), which often assume a form 

 agreeing with his figure ? Compare his figure (108, f. 2) 

 with Sowerby's 350. 



Genus IX. — Lachnella. Fries (amended). 



Cups small, stipitate or sessile ; flesh thin, firm, waxy ; 

 externally pilose or villous ; asci cylindrical or sub- 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, colourless ; paraphyses filiform or 

 acerose. (Plates VII, VIII figs. 43-49.) 



Name — Diminutive of the preceding genus. 



