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Key to the Species. 



Hymenium greenish-olive . . . . . . . . rufo-oliracra. 



Hymenium umber-brown .. .. ., .. fraxinicola. 



Hynieniuin brownish . . . . . . . . . . aiparia. 



A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC. 



71. Lacknella rufo-olivacea. (A. and S.) 



Cups scattered, sessile, firm, hemispherical, then 

 plane ; externally villose-pulverulent, dingy ferruginous- 

 red ; hymenium greenish-olive, at length black ; asci 

 cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, globose-elliptic, bi- 

 nucleate, becoming pseudo-septate, 15 X 7/x; paraphyses 

 filiform, septate, thickened at the apices. (Plate VIII. 

 fig. 49.) 



Peziza rufo-olivacea — A. and S., "Consp," 320, t. 11, 

 f. 4 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 99 ; " Eng. Flo," v. p. 197 ; 

 Mart, " Erl," p. 464 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2046. 

 Velutaria rufo-olivacea — Fckl, " Symb. Myco," p. 300. 

 Lachnea rufo-olivacea — Gill, " Champ," p. 85. 



Exs.— Rabh, "Fung. Eur," 1420; Fckl, "F. Rh," 

 1192. 



On dead branches of rose and bramble. 



Cups | to | a line broad. Coarse brown granules 

 are found on the exterior amongst the tomentum. 



Name — Rufus, reddish-brown, olivaceus, olive -colour. 



Longmynd and Red Hill, near Shrewsbury ! Forres, 

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



72. Lachnella fraxinicola. (B. and Br.) 



Cups scattered or gregarious, sessile; at first closed, 

 then opening with an irregular aperture, at length 

 orbicular, slightly depressed ; externally pale fawn-colour, 

 furfuraceous ; internally brown ; hymenium umber- 

 brown ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, broadly 

 elliptic, faintly brown, 10 — 13 x 7 — 8/m. 



Peziza fraxinicola — B. and Br, " Ann. Nat. Hist," 

 1160, t. 4, f. 21 ; Cooke, " Handbk," 2011. 



On ash-twios. 



Cups about J a line broad, plane or slightly concave, 



