264 BKITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Name — Pellitus, clothed with fur. 



Brackley Coombe, near Bristol ! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 



51. Lachnella nididus. (Schm. and Kunze.) 



Cups scattered or gregarious, sessile, hemispherical, 

 then nearly plane, firm ; externally brown, strigose- 

 hirsute ; hairs short, septate, dark brown; hymenium 

 pallid-yellow ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fuso- 

 filiform, 5 — 10 x lju ; paraphyses acerose, rather stout, a 

 little exceeding the asci. 



Peziza nidulus — Schm. and Kunze, exs. 72; Pers., 

 "Myco. Eur.," i. p. 250; Fries, "Sys. Myco./' ii. p. 104 

 Karst., " Pez. et Ascob./' p. 22 ; and " Mon. Pez.," p. 200 

 Nyl., "Pez. Fenn.," p. 30. Lachnum nidulus — Karst. 

 " Myco. Fenn./' p. 181. Lachnea nidulus — Gill, "Champ./ 

 p. 87, c. i. 



Exs.— Rabh., " Herb. Myco./' ed. ii. 19 ; and " Fung. 

 Eur./' nov. ed. 807 ; Moug. and Nest., 588 ; Karst., " Fung. 

 Fenn./' 630. 



On Spi/rcea Ulmaria. 



Cups 400 to 800/z broad. The hairs are short, rigid, 

 paler near the obtuse, somewhat enlarged apices. 



Name — Nidus, a nest ; a little nest. 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



52. Lachnella sulphurea. (Pers.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile, subglobose ; externally stri- 

 gose-tomentose, sulphur-coloured; hymenium concave, 

 pallid ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, fuso-filiform, simple 

 or spuriously 1 to 3-septate, 14 x 2/x ; paraphyses 

 acerose, rather stout, exceeding the asci. 



Peziza sulphurea — Pers., " Tent, Disp. Meth./' p. 33 ; 

 " Myco. Eur./' p. 250 (in part) ; Grev., t. 83 ; " Eng. Flo.," 

 v. 198; Karst., "Mon. Pez.," p. 199; Nyl, "Pez. Fenn," 

 p. 32; Cooke, " Handbk./' No. 2053; Pat., p. 124, f. 280. 

 Peziza hydnoidea — Purt., No. 1049. Trichopeziza sud- 

 phurea — Fckl., "Symb. Myco.," 296. Lachnum sul- 

 fureum — Karst., " Myco. Fenn./' p. 176. Lachnea 

 sulfurea — Gill., " Champ.," p. 81, c. i. 



