LAGHNEA. 315 



more or less incurved or erect, rather fleshy ; disc deep 

 carmine or scarlet, externally paler and clothed with thick- 

 walled, smooth, septate, pointed, deep brown hairs, the 

 marginal ones 250-350 X 9-12 /x, sometimes inflated more or 

 less below and the base often branching where it springs 

 from the cortical cell; cortex parenchymatous, cells irregu- 

 larly polygonal or subquadrate, 12-20 /x diameter; asci 

 cylindrical, tip somewhat truncate, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, 

 continuous, elliptical, ends obtuse, often 1-2-guttulate, at 

 first smooth, becoming rather coarsely warted at maturity, 

 18-22 x 8—10//,; paraphyses septate, tips rather broadly 

 clavate and filled with red granules. 



Peziza hirta, Schum., Saell., p. 422 ; Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 

 128. 



On the ground among moss, Sec. Rarely on rotten wood, 

 decaying Polyporei, &c. 



Superficially resembling L. scutellata, but separated by the 

 somewhat coarsely warted spores, and the persistently 

 incurved margin of the ascophore. 



Specimens examined in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 19, and Rehin, 

 Ascom., n. 505. 



Lachnea scutellata. Gillet, Disc. Prance, p. 75 ; 

 Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 222 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 698. (figs. 

 20, 21, p. 290.) 



Ascophores usually gregarious, sessile, closed and sub- 

 globose at first, then expanded and plane, fixed by a central 

 point, 3-8 mm. across ; disc deep carmine or almost vermilion, 

 externally pale red, furnished near the margin with large, 

 brown, thick-walled, septate, pointed hairs, 300-600 X 

 15 x 20 fM ; excipulum parenchymatous, the cells largest at 

 the periphery; asci cylindrical, 8-spored; spores obliquely 

 1 -seriate, hyaline, elliptical, ends obtuse, continuous, for a 

 long time smooth, then minutely verruculose, 20-25 X 

 11-14; paraphyses septate, apex clavate and filled when 

 growing with orange granules. 



Peziza scutellata, Linn., Suec, n. 458 ; Cooke, Mvcogr., 

 fig. 131. 



On rotten wood stumps, &c. 



Specimen in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 64, examined. 



The very long marginal hairs and the bright red disc dis- 



