248 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



what ribbed or channelled appearance ; hymenium the 

 same colour ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, fusiform, 

 straight or slightly curved, colourless, 10 x 2/jl ; para- 

 physes acerose, sometimes septate, exceeding the asci. 



Helotium hoteolum — Curr. in " Linn. Trans.," xxiv. p 

 153, t. 25, f. 11, 12, 18 ; Cooke, "Handbk," 2138. 



On dead stick of gorse, the end of which was sunk in 

 the mud in a pool of water. May. 



Cup J a line broad, J of a line high. 



Remarkable in its densely caespitose and branching 

 habit, and the paraphyses are very peculiar. Its aquatic 

 habit is also an unusual character (Currey). 



Having examined the original specimen, I have no 

 hesitation in placing it here. The presence of hairs and 

 acerose paraphyses forbid it being an Helotium. 



Name — Liiteus, yellow ; yellowish. 



Paul's Cray Common ! (Mr. F. Currey). 



25. Lachnella virginea. (Batsch.) 



Cups gregarious, at first globose, then hemispherical, 

 stipitate ; externally white, beset with crowded patent 

 hairs ; hymenium white ; stem short, rather stout ; asci 

 clavate-cylindrical ; sporidia 8, oblong-fusiform, 5 — 

 10 X 1 — 2yLt ; paraphyses acerose, exceeding the asci. 



Peziza virginea — Batsch. in Pers., " Obs," i. p. 28 

 and " Myco. Eur.," i. p. 262 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 90 

 Mich., t. 86, f. 15; Bull., t. 376, f. 3; Holms., ii. t. 14 

 Sow., t. 65; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 194; Karst., "Pez. et 

 Ascob.," 15; and " Mon. Pez.," 192; Cooke, "Handbk," 

 2032. Dasyscypha virginea — Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 

 305. Peziza parvula—" Flo. Dan," t. 1016, f. 4. Lach- 

 num virgineum — Karst, " Myco. Fenn," 169. Lachnea 

 virginea — Gill, " Champ," p. 68, c. i. 



Exs.— Fckl, 1208; Cooke, "Fung. Brit," 560, and ed. 

 ii. No. 545; Phil, " Elv. Brit," 21; Rehm, " Asco," 14; 

 Winter, " Fungi Eur," 2743. 



On wood, bark, brandies, etc. 



Cups about \ of a line broad. The acerose paraphyses 

 at once distinguish this from L. nivea. 



