DASYSCYPHA. 349 



On the underside of fallen leaves of oak and beech, also 

 on beech mast. 



Specimens in Desm., Crypt. France, n. 1156; Phil., Elv. 

 Brit., n. 28; Fuckel, Fung. Rhen., n. 1168; and Roumg., 

 Fung. Gall., no. 1959, examined. 



I do not know what, species Phillips had in view when 

 describing his Lachnella fuscescens — Brit. Disc, p. 235 — 

 which is said to differ from his L. brunneola in having: 

 filiform paraphyses — I.e., p. 238 — but the paraphyses are 

 distinctly lanceolate and acute, and the specimens altogether 

 identical with D. fuscescens as described above, in both the 

 exsiccati quoted by Phillips under his L. fuscescens. 



Dasyscypha calyculaeformis. Pehm, Ascom., n. 

 207; Sacc, Syll., viii. n, 1888. 



Scattered or gregarious, stipitate, funnel-shaped, at first 

 closed, then expanding until the margin is erect, up to 

 2 mm. high and broad; disc yellowish-brown; externally 

 brown, villose as is also the short stout stem, hairs longest 

 at the margin, where they are thin- walled, septate, cylin- 

 drical, yellow-brown, usually minutely rough, straight or 

 slightly wavy, 80-150 X 6-8/*; cortex formed of slender, 

 septate, parallel hyphae ; asci cylindric-clavate, 8-spored ; 

 spores 2 - seriate, hyaline, continuous, linear - fusiform, 

 straight, 10-12 x 2 fx ; paraphyses lanceolate, apex acute, 

 hyaline, 4-5 fx at widest part, longer than the asci. 



Peziza calyculaeformis, Schum., Enum , pi. Saell., p. 425. 



Lachnella calyculaeformis, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 237. 



Lachnum calyculaeformis, Karst., Myc Fenn., i. p. 178; 

 Rehm, Krypt.-Flora, p. 897, figs. 1-4, p. 866. 



On branches of hazel, alder, &c 



Very near to D. clandestina, but the ascophore is altogether 

 larger, and the spores and marginal hairs longer. The 

 stem is blackish-brown and smooth when the hairs have 

 fallen away. 



Specimen in Rehm's Ascom., n. 207, examined. 



Var. latebricola, Rehm, Ascom., n. Ill; Phil., Brit. 

 Disc, p. 237. 



Spores elliptical, 6-8 X 2*5 /x; some of the paraphyses are 

 filiform, others lanceolate and acute, and longer than the 

 asci. 



