LACHNELLA. 4 Z15 



Name — Luzula, a genus of Juncacece ; growing on 

 Luzida. 



Conway, North Wales ! 



19. Lachnella nivea. (Hedw.) 



Cups gregarious, stipitate, turbinate, waxy ; externally 

 white, villose-tomentose ; hairs slender, hyaline, septate, 

 obtuse ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, fusiform or oblong- 

 fusiform, biseriate, 8 — 10 X 2jul; paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza nivea — Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 90 ; " Eng. 

 Flo.," v. p. 195; Cooke, " Handbk," 2033 (in part). 

 Lachnea nivea — Gill., " Champ.," p. 68, c. i. Octospora 

 nivea — Hedw., t. 8, f. B. 



Exs. — Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," No. 559, and ed. ii. 

 No. 546. 



On rotten wood. Autumn. 



Cups \ to J a line broad. Externally like P. virginea, 

 but distinguished by its filiform asci. 



Name — Niveus, snowy ; snow-white. 



Attingham Park, near Shrewsbury ! Forden, Mont- 

 gomeryshire ! (Rev. J. E. Vize). 



20. Lachnella aspidiicola. (B. and Br.) 



White, rather buff when dry ; stem very short ; cups 

 concave, subhemispherical ; externally furfuraceous floc- 

 cose ; asci very short and slender ; sporidia oblong, sub- 

 clavate, 5 — 8 X 1 — 2/u ; paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza aspidiicola — B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist./' 

 No. 771; Berk., "Outl," p. 369; Cooke, "Handbk.," 

 2058. Mollisi aspidiicola — Gill., " Champ.," p. 129. 



Exs. — Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," 565, and ed. ii. No. 547: 

 Phil., "Elv. Brit," 26; Kunze, "Fung. Sel," 596; Rehm, 

 "Asco," 560; Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," 1516. 



On dead stems of Aspidium Filix-mas. November. 



Very minute, gregarious, white, rather buff when 

 dry; stem extremely short, gradually passing into the 

 subhemispherical cup, which is clothed externally with 

 minute pellucid scales, mixed with a few obscure hyaline 



