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On dead bark of trees. 



Cups nearly J a line broad ; at first globose, opening 

 by a narrow mouth. The hairs are usually pale, but 

 sometimes brown or reddish-brown, short, and tapering. 

 The colour of the exterior varies, being paler towards 

 the margin. 



Name — Cortex, bark ; growing on bark. 



Bristol (Mr. H. O. Stephens). Thame (Dr. Ayres). 

 Rudloe, Wilts (Mr. C. E. Broome). Leigh Woods, near 

 Bristol! (Mr. C. Bucknall). Forres, KB. ! (Rev. Dr. 

 Keith). Forden, North Wales (Rev. J. E. Yize). Atting- 

 ham Park, Salop ! Rushbury, Salop ! Bomere, Salop ! 



41. Lachnella canescens. (Cooke.) 



Gregarious or crowded, sessile, hemispherical, firm; 

 clothed externally with flexuous, brown, septate hairs ; 

 hymenium fuliginous-brown ; asci clavate ; sporidia fusi- 

 form, at length pseudo-1-septate, 9 — 12 x 2/z; paraphyses 

 filiform. 



Peziza canescens — Cooke in litt. 



On naked wood. 



Cups nearly J of a line broad. This differs from L 

 corticalis in the fusiform sporidia, and the more con- 

 spicuous septate hairs of the exterior. 



Name — Canus, hoary. 



Near Hereford (Mr. James Renny). 



42. Lachnella vaviecolor. (Fries.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile, but not adnate, globose, then 

 hemispherical, rather firm ; externally floeculoso-villose ; 

 hymenium urceolate, white, becoming pallid ; asci cylin- 

 draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong or subfusiform, 

 7 — 11 X 2 — S/u; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza vaviecolor — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 100 ; 

 "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 197; Cooke, "Handbk./: 2048. P. 

 sulphured — Pers., " Icon. et. Descr.," t. 8, f . 4, 5. Tapesia 

 variecolor — Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 302. Pezizd albo- 

 hdea— Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 29; Karst, " Mon. Pez.," p. 

 187. P.flavo-fuliginea — Karst., "Pez. et. Ascob.," p. 20. 



