263 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



" Handbk.," 2052 (in part). Pseudo-helotium hyalinum 

 ■ — Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 298. Helotium hyalinum — 

 Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 144. Lachnea hyalina — Gill., 

 " Champ./' p. 79. 



Exs.— Phil., "Elv. Brit.," 24; Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," 

 3615. 



On dead chips and stumps, and inside bark. 



Cups 200 to 800/x broad. A minute, slender species, 

 with exceedingly delicate hairs, which when dry do not 

 easily revive with moisture. The cups assume a darker 

 shade on drying, and " resemble minute grains of white 

 sand scattered over the brown bark." 



It is almost certain that at least two distinct species 

 have been hitherto included under this name in herbaria, 

 if not more. 



Name — Hyalinus, transparent. 



Ercall Hill ! and Shelton ! near Shrewsbury ; Linwilg, 

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



58. Lachnella fugiens. Phil. 



Cups scattered, sessile, globose, then expanded, thin, 

 white, villose ; asci oblong-clavate or subfusiform ; 

 sporidia 4 to 8, oblong-linear or elliptic, straight or slightly 

 curved, 7 X 2/u. 



Peziza fugiens — Phil, in Bucknall's " Fungi of the 

 Bristol District" ("Proceedings of Bristol Nat. Soc"), 

 pt. iv. No. 800, t. iv. f. 2. 



On dead rushes in bogs. 



Cups 50/i broad ; asci 20/* long, 5fi broad ; the hairs 

 of the exterior very short, non-septate, colourless. 



Name — Fugiens, fleeting; from its ephemeral cha- 

 racter. 



Man^otsfield and Abbots Leigh, near Bristol ! (Mr. 

 Cedric Bucknall). 



59. Lachnella punctoidea. (Karst.) 



Cups gregarious, sessile or substipitate, sub-immar- 

 ginate, nearly naked, convex, when dry plane or slightly 



