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paraphyses numerous, slender, cylindrical, apex slightly 

 thickened and olive-brown. 



Peziza rufo-olivacea, A. & S., Consp., p. 320, t. 11, fig. 4; 

 Cke., Hdbk., n. 2046. 



Lachnella rufo-olivacea, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 275, pi. 8, 

 fig. 49; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1639. 



Lachnella fraxinicola, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 275 ; Sacc, 

 Syll., n. 



Peziza fraxinicola, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1160, 

 t. 4, fig. 21. 



On dead branches of rose, bramble, akh, privet, elder, &c. 



Scattered ; rarely aggregated in groups of 2-3 specimens ; 

 recognised by the olive-green, discoid, circular disc. The 

 inflated, brownish-olive, subglobose or pyriform cells, up to 

 40 fx in length, present in the substance of hypothecium and 

 projecting from the external cells of the epithecium, are 

 very characteristic. In rare instances I have seen the 

 large vesicular bodies in chains of 2-3 cells. When old 

 the contents of the spores are sometimes divided into two 

 equal portions by a central clear line — spuriously 2 -celled — 

 but a transverse septum is not formed. The spores are 

 tinged olive-brown when mature. 



I have examined the type specimen of Lachnella fraxinicola 

 (B. & Br.), Phil., and find it to be in every respect identical 

 with the present species. 



PHAEANGELLA. Mass. 



Ascophore erumpent, soon superficial, closed at first, then 

 expanding and becoming cup-shaped and finally patellate, 

 coriaceous, contracting and becoming contorted when dry ; 

 externally furfuraceous ; asci 4-8-1 6-spored ; spores elon- 

 gated, 1-septate, coloured (or in some species hyaline) ; 

 paraphyses present. 



Phaeangella, Sacc, Syll., viii. p. 592 (as a section of 

 Cenangella). 



Distinguished by the usually coloured, 1-septate spores. 



Phaeangella ulicis. Mass. 

 Caespitose or scattered, turbinate and substipitate at first, 



