LACHNELLA. 2oJ 



Trefriw, North Wales! Ercall Hill, Salop! Marsh 

 Brook, Salop ! General Cemetery, Shrewsbury ! 



4. Lachnella Stevensoni. (B. and Br.) 



Minute, subglobose, sugar-coloured ; externally granu- 

 lar; stem very short, incrassated upwards; asci clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, minute, subcymbseform, 8 X 2/x; paraphyses 

 filiform, slender. 



Peziza (Mollisia) Stevensoni — B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. 

 Hist.," No. 1485; "Grevillea," iii. p. 122. 



On decorticated wood. 



Sporidia '0005 inch (12^) long. This is accompanied 

 by creeping threads, which give off erect branches bear- 

 ing obovate spores "001 inch (25ft) long. Probably a 

 conidiiferous state (B. and Br.). 



The specimens in the Bev. M. J. Berkeley's herbarium 

 are minutely hairy ; hairs delicate, nearly colourless ; cups 

 200 to 20 5 ju broad ; the stem nearly absent, or rather 

 long ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, oblongo-fusiform, 8x2ju; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Name — After tae Bev. J. Stevenson. 



5. Lachnella fuscescens. (Pers.) 



Cups scattered, stipitate, at first globose, then hemi- 

 spherical, tawny, clothed with bay -brown hairs ; hyme- 

 nium pale brown ; stem very short ; asci cylindraceo- 

 clavate ; sporidia linear, obtuse, 10 X l/i ; paraphyses 

 filiform. 



Peziza fuscescens — Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 654 ; 

 " Myco. Eur.," p. 265 ; A. and S., " Corisp.," 325 ; Fckl., 

 " Symb. Myco.," p. 309 ; Phil., " Grevillea," iii. p. 188 ; 

 B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1622; « Grevillea," v. 

 p. 61 ; Cooke, " Carp. Grevillea," p. 127, t. 40, f. 154. 



Exs.— Fckl., "F. Bh.," 1168; Boumg., "Fung. Gal.," 

 1959. 



On the under side of dead beech-leaves. Autumn. 



Cups the size of P. brunneola, which it resembles, 

 but the paraphyses are not acerose, as in that species. 



